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‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’ [95v] (195/366)
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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180
died in 188 i ; his successes were largely due to the fighting
qualities of his son Visa, who pre-deceased him.
Haji Jahir was succeeded by his son Miza’l who, by playing
off one pretender to the Shaikhship of Fallahiyah against the
other, and putting in first one rival and then another as Shaikh,
succeeded in becoming paramount Shaikh of the Muhaisin and
Cha’b tribes. The hereditary Wali of Hawizah, who formerly
ruled the whole country between the Karun and Tigris, also fell
under the power of Miza’l. Miza’l received from the Persian
Government the title of Mu’izz-ul-Saltaneh. He fell a victim in
1897 to a conspiracy organised by his cousin Salman ibn Mansur,
to which most of the tribal Shaikhs were privy.
Khaz’al, the youngest and only surviving son of Haji Jabir,
succeeded his brother. The title of Mu’izz-ul-Saltaneh was
continued in his favour, and to it was added the military title
of
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
-i-Aqdas. By this time the Cha’b Shaikhdom was
broken up and finally extinguished in 1898, when the Muhaisin
inherited the Cha’b possessions from the Karun to Hindian.
During the war the Muhaisin may be considered the only tribe
in ’Arabistan that was consistently loyal to the British and the
Shaikh of Muhammarah, whose interests were one. In 1915
when a jihad was being preached at the instigation of the Turks
and all tribes of ’Arabistan were in a state of rebellion, the
Muhaisin on two occasions went out to fight for the cause of the
British and the Shaikh, first against the Bawieh, who had cut
the pipe line and secondly against the Cha’b, who, though they
had made no active opposition, had adopted an attitude su re
bellious that the Shaikh considered it unwise to allow them to
remain unpunished. It is possible that he feared lest the old
rivalry between the Cha’b and Muhaisin would recur and that
if the Cha’b received assistance from the Bawieh, whose atti
tude at that time was doubtful, they would regain their former
supermacy and entirely wipe out the Muhaisin. Though the
Shaikh knew that he had the support of the British, he also
realised that the British needed all their forces to attack the
Turks, and therefore his wisest policy was to strike first. In the
action against the Cna’b in June, 1915, the Muhaisin gained a
decisive victory.
As regards their numbers on this occasion it was estimated
that the Muhaisin put a force of 3,000 in the field. This is lesa
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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.
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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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