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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [261r] (524/862)
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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THE CONSTITUTION
THE CONSTITUTION 397
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rabbi members by the rabbis of the community. Qualifications for
membership of the councils consist of Iraqi citizenship, a minimum
age, and literacy. Religious courts may be established by the commu
nity with jurisdiction in matters of personal status.
The communal organization at Basra and Mosul is generally similar
to that at Baghdad, though the councils are smaller in size, and a
Chief Rabbi is appointed there only when a religious court has been
established.
Desert Administration
The western and southern deserts and their beduin and shepherd
population, though nominally divided between the adjacent provinces,
are really administered from Baghdad. The former Turkish adminis
tration was unable to exert any control over the beduin tribes except
through the influence of the paramount shaikhs. Similar methods
were followed in the early years of the mandate until the Wahhabi
menace from Saudi Arabia (p. 318) compelled the Government of
Iraq to organize the control and defence of the desert.
A Southern Desert Province was constituted under the then Cap
tain J. B. Glubb, an administrative officer with special knowledge
of desert conditions and tribes, who was given a force of 200 men
with 70 camels and 14 motor-cars, armed with quick-firing weapons.
Direct contact was established with the beduin tribesmen within
their remote habitats, government authority was extended to the
limits of Iraqi territory, and a political settlement was made with
Saudi Arabia concerning the movement of tribes (p. 320). The
Southern Desert Province seems no longer to exist as such, but the
work of the desert patrol continues (below).
Police and Prisons
A Police Force was first formed in 1921 under the central control
of an Inspector-General. Previously the police had been mainly
under local control. British officers and non-commissioned officers
were gradually replaced by Iraqis whom the Police Training School
provided, and an Iraqi was placed in charge. In 1940 the Police Force,
which is administered by a Director-General under the control of the
Minister of the Interior, consisted of 635 officers and inspectors and
9,749 men, all of whom were Iraqis except for two advisory British
officers and a British technical expert. Nearly half the force is
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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.
- Physical characteristics
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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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