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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [175v] (355/862)
The record is made up of 1 volume (430 folios). It was created in 1944. 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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HISTORY
244
into the hands of dynasties which professed a barely nominal loyalty
to the Caliphs of Baghdad, such as the Samanids, rulers of Transoxi-
ana and Khorasan (874-999), and the Ghaznawids of Afghanistan
(962-1186) who also conquered the Punjab. The Caliphs began to
Fig. 55. Eastern Moslem states in the 10th and nth centuries a.d.
lose control even of Iraq in the time of Mutasim (833-842), who
instituted a bodyguard of Turkish troops recruited in Transoxiana
to counterbalance the influence of the Khorasan levies, the original
supporters of the Abbasids. But the Turks in turn proved too strong
and unruly. In 836, to placate the infuriated Baghdadis, Mutasim
removed the seat of government and the Turks 70 miles upstream
from Baghdad to Samarra, where he was a prisoner of his own body
guard. After the murder of his successor Mutawakkil in 861 by the
guard, power passed increasingly into the hands of Turkish generals.
Southern Iraq was troubled at this time by the destructive Zanj
rebellion (869-883). The Zanj were negro slaves employed in the
land-reclamation of the delta, and they rose under a Shia pretender.
Their strong position among the marshes and canals made them hard
to subdue, and much damage was done to the towns and agriculture
of the region from Basra to Wasit.
The return of the Caliphate to Baghdad in 892 did not restore its
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The volume is titled Iraq and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (London: Naval Intelligence Division, 1944).
The report contains preliminary remarks by the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1942 (John Henry Godfrey) and the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1944 (E G N Rushbrook).
There then follows thirteen chapters:
- I. Introduction.
- II. Geology and description of the land.
- III. Coasts of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
- IV. Climate, vegetation and fauna.
- V. History.
- VI. People.
- VII. Distribution of the people.
- VIII. Administration and public life.
- IX. Public health and disease.
- X. Irrigation, agriculture, and minor industry.
- XI. Currency, finance, commerce and oil.
- XII. Ports and inland towns.
- XIII. Communications.
- Appendices: stratigraphy; meteorological tables; ten historical sites, chronological table; weights and measures; authorship, authorities and maps.
There follows a section listing 105 text figures and maps and a section listing over 200 illustrations.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (430 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is divided into a number of chapters, sub-sections whose arrangement is detailed in the contents section (folios 7-13) which includes a section on text-figures and maps, and list of illustrations. The volume consists of front matter pages (xviii), and then a further 682 pages in the 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 430; 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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- 'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:253r, 254r, 255r:429v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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