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'File 35/64 Mineral deposits in Dhofar' [6r] (13/126)
The record is made up of 1 volume (54 folios). It was created in 23 Jun 1943. 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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springs to the plain, and wheat has been grown for the first
are
time in living memory. Water and good fallow land/now
available but an adequate supply of skilled labour and trained
draught animals has so far proved impossible to secure.
ADMINISTRATION .
The administration of the Dhufar Province is in the
hands of the Sultan of Muscat himself. He appears to regard
Dhufar more as a private estate than as a Province of his
Sultanate and maintains a separate treasury. According to an
article published some 65 years ago in the Nehla, a superior
Arabic magazine of the last century, Saiyid Turki, the present
Sultan's grandfather, established his rule there at the
invitation of the Saiyids of Salala to forestall the unwelcome
interest of the Turks. He entrusted the task of establishing
Muscat authority to one Sulaiman bin Suwailim, a former slave,
and supplied him with a small body of soldiers to secure the
towns from the tribesmen. Sulaiman bin Suwailim built a fort
on the site of the present palace which was later seized and
looted by the Kathiri, but it was not long before Muscat authori
ty was re-established. His father took little interest in the
Province but Saiyid Said bin Taimur, the present Sultan, has now
been in residence there for over a year, has a trained
agricultural adviser and an engineer with him and is making
great strides in developing the agricultural resources.
His Government is based on overwhelming local
superiority of force in the form of some two hundred partially
trained soldiers, the offspring of former East African slaves,
armed with modern rifles and made mobile with ponies and two
light trucks. Neither the tribesmen nor the townsfolk are well
armed and the former are too divided to be formidable. The
Sultan^ Government is buttressed by the possession of possibly
three fifths of the currency in the Province, over the
expenditure of which the strictest control is maintained, by a
comprehensive intelligence system and by control of much of the
imported food. This strength is tempered by political marriages
with/
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The file contains two items. The first is 'A note on the Dhufar Province, Southern Arabia' by Gordon Noel Jackson dated 23rd June, 1943, Kuwait. This typed note is 8 pages and has sections on topography; climate; people; economy and finance; agriculture; administration; airport; security; of scientific interest; sport.
The file also includes a 78 page printed report on 'The geology and mineral resources of Dhofar province, Muscat and Oman' by Sir Cyril S Fox. This report includes introductory remarks; physical geography; details of tour; geological considerations; economic minerals; industrial possibilities. The printed report includes a sketch map of Dhofar.
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Foliation starts on first page of volume and continues to last page. Foliation in pencil in encircled numbers in top right corner of recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. . Alternative foliation system starts with 34 on f.1 and continues to f.8. ff.9-54 are a booklet; f.55 is the envelope for the booklet. Additional foliation on 4 slips pasted into the booklet (18A, 20A, 21A, 26A).
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- IOR/R/15/1/398
- Title
- 'File 35/64 Mineral deposits in Dhofar'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 1r:8v, 18ar:18av, 20ar:20av, 21ar, 26ar:26av, 33ar:33av, 54ar:54av, 55r, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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