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'Field notes. Mesopotamia' [35r] (74/230)
The record is made up of 1 file (111 folios). It was created in 1915. 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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59
Numbers of them ore perpetually on the move, engaged in fishing
Td shooting ; nevertheless they may be regarded a
tribe. Their principal occupation is the f,ree <-Ung
of which the/ possess enormous herds,
purchasers sometimes obtain as many as ’ ’^jg an( j
their^hmses^re 1 fevv'and'inferior. Pf ^^m^
AmarahtownTamlnot le^a ^emar^ble afe thevast numlmr of
S A1 Bn Mohammad are Shi'ah Muhammadans except
a few who are Sunnis ; but they are despised by the netghbourmg
Awb tribes who m"us; them their daughters in marriage and
fileue as evidences of their inferiority their intermarriage with
P rlln tSes, the presence of Persians settled in themm «,
Sd their own prineipi oeeupation -^™me and do noi
The women of this tribe are accounted hands Muham-
veil their faces. It is said that the Shaikhs of he ^ Bu Mf am ,
m. ,d and the Saiyids who live among them enjoy more 1 ,
tude than the Quran permits in regard to the number of then
Wi T™ and political position. The A1 Bu Mubammad^^ovm^
th „ vouaePS t members of the tribe, are at the present time the ex.
tomelyS“m“d with smuggled rifles ; and the*, —
conjunction with the inaccessible nature of their_ country pre,
vents their neighbours from committing aggressions on them,
however much they may affect to despise them.
The largest and most powerM Arab tribe, in Tur is
Territory .—To the Muntafik belong botb banks of th^Euph-
rates together with the adjacent ^ e ^ er f potion
between the towns of Samawah and Naslnya , 3
of the Euphrates and Tigris; also the .^oyhe ShaU a^
Oharaf except in its upper course, the right bank ot toeiigrn
Sm'Asa*To Qurnah village and the whole ™stem Port'on °f
the country, called Ja^h or Meso^tomi^ mclude^betwe
three Part of the right bank of the Shatt-al- AraD neiow
Basrah was formerly occupied by the Muntafik, but t ey were
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The file consists of a publication of field notes concerning Mesopotamia. Produced by the General Staff, India, and published in Simla by the Government Monotype Press, 1915. Marked for official use only.
It is divided into the following chapters:
- history – an expedition to Muhammareh [Khorramshahr] (1857), the political situation, and the British position in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ;
- geography – boundaries and geographical features;
- population – inhabitants, particularly Arab tribes;
- resources – including water, supplies, transport, and trade;
- military - distribution, strength, qualities, and camping grounds;
- maritime - distribution, strength, navigation, and landing facilities;
- administration - territory divisions and the system of organisation;
- communication - including lines of advance, railways, roads, telegraphs, telephones, and a list of principal routes used in Mesopotamia and Arabistan.
Also included are four appendices: notes on Qatar Peninsula and Dohah [Doha]; details of important personages; a glossary of Arabic and Turkish terms; and information on weights, measures, currency, and chronology.
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- 1 file (111 folios)
- Arrangement
The file consists of a single publication. A list of contents at the front of the volume (ff 4-5) and index at the rear (ff 103-111) both reference the volume’s original printed pagination.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 113; 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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- Title
- 'Field notes. Mesopotamia'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:112v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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