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‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’ [41r] (86/366)
The record is made up of 1 volume (179 folios). It was created in 1924. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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with lartillary. It is only three marches from Aminiyah
(Ahwaz) with no river of any size intervening, vide Chapter VIII,
whilst nearly all supplies could be obtained locally. At least a
double company of infantry with all details could be garrisoned
in the fort, and possibly a battalion, if sufficient supplies could be
provided.
POLITICAL DIVISIONS—
Arabistan is divided into ten districts, the boundaries of
which are given below. Other details concerning these districts
will be found in the various chapters according to the nature of
the information required.
5 (1) Dizful. With Shushtar forms the northern province of
’Arabistan. The northern boundary of this district will be
found in the earlier pages of this chapter under the boundaries
of Northern Province of Arabistan. The eastern boundary
which is the division between Shushtar and Dizful districts is a
line passing between Pavindeh and Kahunak in the north
| through a point east of Kut ’Abd-ush-Shah in the south. The
western boundary is the Traq-Persian Frontier, whilst the
southern is the same as recorded for the northern boundary of
thetAhwaz district.
(2) Shushtar. For the northern boundary, vide boundary of
Northern Arabistan. For the western boundary, vide Dizful.
For the southern boundary, vide Ahwaz. For the eastern
boundary, vide Pamuz.
(3) Ramuz .—The Ramuz district is bounded along its north
eastern side, beginning at some napthah springs, known as
Naft-i-Safid, at its northern corner by the Kuh-i-Gach range,
which reaches to the Ramuz river; its south-eastern corner is on
the Marun river, above Jaizan, which is included in the districtj
From Jaizan the boundary ruins at a short distance from the left
bank of the Marun to a point Cham. Mani’ on the Jarrahi, 3 miles
below the confluence of the Ramuz and Marun rivers. From
Cham Mani 5 thence it is continued to the low, mud and rock
hills through which the Jarrahi breaks above Cham Sabi, crosses
the river and, following the same hills, arrives at a point on the
Ramuz-Nasiri route on the eastern verge of the Buairish plain,
and about 9 miles east of the village of Mirbacheh. The re
mainder of the boundary is a line connecting Bu’airish with the
napthah springs mentioned above; this line crosses the Gupal
streams about 4 miles above the barrage on the same.
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Confidential military report on Arabistan [Khūzestān] compiled by Air Headquarters, Iraq, and printed by the Government of India Press, 1924.
The report contains nine chapters (numbered I-IX) and seven appendices (A-G) as follows:
- chapter I – history (general, ancient, modern, political attitude);
- II – geography (boundaries, area, general description, altitude, mountains, rivers and fords, towns and villages, tracts of land, islands, fortified places, political divisions);
- III – climate (general, temperature, winds, rainfall, mirages, general medical and sanitary conditions, principal diseases, conditions affecting aviation and military operations);
- IV – economic resources (general, labour, agriculture, livestock, manufacture, power, commerce, customs, banking, revenue, tables of imports and exports);
- V – ethnography (general, population, races, religions, languages);
- VI – tribes (general, armed forces, tribes in relation to possible centres of disturbance, political attitudes, military considerations, tribal action, punitive measures, recapitulation, lists of tribes);
- VII – personalities;
- VIII – communications (general, communications by sea, inland waterways, railways, telegraphs and telephones, post, aerodromes and possible aerodromes, wireless and visual communication, principal routes by land, sea and river);
- IX – administration (general, government establishments, northern province, southern province);
- appendix A – bibliographical notes;
- B – weights and measures, coinage and time;
- C – glossary of topographical terms;
- D – Karun river [Rūd-e Kārūn] regulations;
- E – concession granted to the “Nasiri Company”;
- F – customs schedule;
- G – Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
The volume contains a single map in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folio 180).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (179 folios)
- Arrangement
A contents list (ff 4-5) and index (ff 171-177) reference the report’s original pagination system.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 181; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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