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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [266r] (534/862)
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
407
German universities, and about 120 at Beirut. In addition there
was one government scholar studying agriculture at the University
of California and another studying education at Columbia University,
New York.
The Department of Antiquities, formed as soon as the country had
settled down to some semblance of peace, was at first attached to the
Ministry of Communications and Works, but was transferred in 1926
to that of Education. In a country so rich in archaeological sites of
exceptional interest such a department was a necessity. As soon as
the department was constituted, the work of excavation, which had
been interrupted by the war, was resumed. A Law of Antiquities
was published in September 1924 and the Baghdad Museum, at first
a simple room in the Sarai, was opened in the same year. As in other
Middle East countries of great archaeological interest, the Depart
ment of Archaeology has the first claim on ‘finds’ for the enrichment
of its museum. There is also a new Museum of Islamic Art at
Baghdad.
Agriculture and Land
Despite the fact that Iraq is almost entirely an agricultural country,
the various departments which normally would be comprised by a
ministry have only once formed a Ministry of Agriculture, for the
short period between 1927 and 1930. After having been split up at
various times between the Ministry of the Interior and that of Public
Works, the Department of Agriculture, Veterinary Department, and
Irrigation Department are now under the Ministry of Economic
Affairs. These departments are concerned directly with agriculture.
Three departments are concerned with the ownership and tenure of
land: the Tapu or Fief Department, the Miri Department, and
the Department of Waqf. The Tapu Department, which is under
the Ministry of Justice, keeps the land registers and deals with the
sales and lease of Tapu lands (p. 442), while the Miri Department,
attached to the Ministry of Finance (1930), deals with ‘simple
Miri’ land (p. 444). The Survey Office, which is also much con
cerned with the Irrigation Department, is now attached to the
Ministry of Economic Affairs. The Department of Waqf, concerned
with the administration of Waqf lands, is semi-autonomous (p. 402).
The system of land tenure is described in Chapter X.
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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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- 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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