'Military Report on S.-W. Persia, Vol. I. Bakhtiari Garmsir'

Content

It consists of a military report on S W Persia, specifically Bakhtiari Garmsir [Bakhtīārī], created for the personal information of the officers of the Army in India. Compiled in the Division of the Chief of the Staff, Army Head Quarters, India. Printed at the Government Monotype Press, Simla, 1909.

It includes: a preface by Wilfrid Malleson, Assistant Quarter-Master General, Intelligence Branch; an account of the tribal and political aspect of the district by the British Consul for Arabistan [Khūzestān], David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer; and a note on medical matters by Dr M Y Young of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company Limited.

It is divided into the following sections:

• general – geographical, geological, zoological, tribal, strategical, archaeological, and linguistic;
• military – climate, supplies, transport, communications, and medical;
• route reports - compiled in 1908 covering the whole area with a network of known tracks;
• Gazetteer notes – geographical information;
• appendices – including a statement of resources in the district, traffic returns, reports on the carrying capacity of steamers on the Kārūn and the tramway at Nasiri, genealogical trees, and a note on the operations of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.

Also includes one map on folio 81: 'MAP to illustrate Military Report on S.W. PERSIA'.

Extent and format

1 volume (80 folios)

It is grouped into

'MAP to illustrate Military Report on S.W. PERSIA'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/MIL/17/15/10/1, f 81

Arrangement

The item consists of a single report and an accompanying map enclosed in a pocket on the inside back cover. A contents page at the front of the volume (f 4) and index at the rear (ff 72-79) both reference the volume’s original printed pagination.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 82; 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.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/MIL/17/15/10/1

Former external reference(s)

P–53 No. 70

History of this record

Date(s)

1909 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

ReportsMilitary intelligence

Places

Bakhtiari Garmsir

People & organisations

Government Monotype Press, Simla, publishersGovernment of India, Quarter Master General's Department, Intelligence BranchBritish Consul, ArabistanAnglo-Iranian Oil Company LimitedDivision of the Chief of the Staff, Army Head Quarters, India

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