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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [249r] (502/862)
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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DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION 373
are on sufficiently good terms with their neighbours to respect their
boundaries. The more powerful shepherd tribes often exact grazing
rights on the lands of agricultural tribes without payment (p. 377).
The following account summarizes the more notable tribes in the
Fig. 70. Tribes of southern Kurdistan and Arab tribes of the Upper Tigris
major natural divisions of the country (figs. 70-71), but far less is
known even to-day about the Kurdish tribes than about the Arab.
The Diyala Basin (figs. 23, 25, 70). From Qizil Ribat in the south
to Halabja and the Avroman mountains in the north the western
flank of the Diyala basin is the grazing-ground of the vast flocks of the
predominantly nomadic Jaf tribe, many thousand tents strong, who
in summer often cross the Persian frontier beyond Penjwin to the
districts of Marivan and Baneh. The Jaf have also acquired agricul
tural lands in the south around Qizil Ribat, and in the Halabja plain
where Halabja is a Jaf town. Authority was formerly divided between
the leader of the nomadic elements and the town aghas, especially of
the Begzada family at Halabja, of whom the lady Adela Khanum was
the most famous (p. 34 I )> but the Begzadas are now merely rich
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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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- Title
- 'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF'
- Pages
- 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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