'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [264r] (530/862)
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 403
origin of many of the endowments calls for state supervision similar
to that exercised formerly by the Chancery Court in England.
The Department of Waqf, which is concerned only with Moslem
religious, educational, and charitable endowments, is subsidiary to
the Ministry of Justice. It includes the administration of the pro
perties from which the revenues of the Waqf are derived. The Otto
man regime left a heavy burden on the new administration in this
department. Repairs and rebuilding had been greatly neglected so
that many buildings for which the department was responsible were
in ruins, and corruption and peculation were widespread among de
partmental officials. During the three years in which the British
administered the Department its revenue increased from 3 million
to 17 million
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
, but after two years it passed into the hands of an
officer belonging to the community mainly concerned, the first of the
government departments to pass out of British control. Until 1929
there was a Ministry of Waqf, but then it was reduced to the status
of a department under a Director-General, the British Inspector-
General who had remained as adviser being withdrawn. The de
partment is virtually independent of outside control, because, in view
of its concern solely with religious and related matters, the Govern
ment prefers not to interfere in its management.
The department maintains a number of elementary schools of its
own and aids others. It also provides teaching of secular subjects as
well as of theology in the mosques, and it grants scholarships to
enable selected students to attend European and American univer
sities. Its attempt to establish a theological college of university
standard in Baghdad was a failure.
Education
In Iraq, as in other Arab countries, there is a fairly pressing demand
for schooling if not for education, and it is in the provision of schools
that the Iraqi State has made its most notable and useful advances.
The general situation is shown by the fact that in 1940-1941 modern
primary education was provided for 114,000 children, 3.3 per cent,
of a total population of over 3,500,000, whereas in 1920 less than
o-6 per cent, of the population were receiving primary education, and
the number of government primary schools in this period has been
increased ninefold from 85 to 755. The total staff of the government
elementary and primary schools in 1940 numbered 3,525, an
average of about 1 teacher to 25 pupils.
Primary education is now free and compulsory for both boys and
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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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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