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'Reports of administration for 1918 of divisions and districts of the occupied territories in Mesopotamia. Volume I' [177v] (359/470)
The record is made up of 1 volume (231 folios). It was created in 1919. 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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336
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tract of land, constitute on the occasion of his good fortune a diminution of the power of the existing
holder. But the fate of the country must be settled, and the need of undivided rule over large tracts
and tribes cease to exist, before we can safely try experiments of this type. One thing seems clear:
the policy of backing up the big shaikhs is incompatible with the principle of a wide dispersion of
wealth and prosperity. As it is, one thinks of Egypt in terms of “
fallahin
Arabic for ‘peasant’. It was used by British officials to refer to agricultural workers or to members of a social class employed primarily in agricultural labour.
,” but one thinks of Iraq
in terms of shaikhs. Immediate needs make it necessary and politic to support the big shaikhs.
But it will probably be politic in a not very remote future to reverse the procedure, politic from the
point of view of breaking up the tribal system in the interests of the peace and prosperity of the
majority, and politic from the point of view of the increase of the revenues of the Occupied Territories.
If the Government took now, instead of the fees they take from the shaikhs in the ‘Amarah Division,
the total amount collected by the shaikhs from the sub-farmers, it would be the richer by thousands
of pounds.
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The volume comprises annual reports and administration reports, submitted by Political Officers, for the following divisions in occupied Mesopotamia [Iraq]: Samara; Ba'qubah; Khaniqin [Khānaīqn]; Samawah; Shamiyah [Shāmīyah]; Hillah; Dulaim [Anbar]; Basrah; Qurnah; 'Amarah [Al 'Amārah]; Kut; Nasiriyah; Kirkuk; and the Kuwait Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. [Kuwayt].
The administration reports often include details under the following headings: tribal and political boundaries; revenue; irrigation; agriculture; industry; municipalities; judicial; education; medical and sanitation; housing; police; jails; Shabanahs; labour; Waqf; establishment and personnel. They often contain appendices, providing statistical tables, special reports, notes on prominent personalities, lists of ruling Shaikhs, and details of court cases and prisoners.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (231 folios)
- Arrangement
A table of contents can be found at page 2 (folio 2v).
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 233; 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 (445pp, including maps and tables).
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- IOR/L/PS/20/250
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- 'Reports of administration for 1918 of divisions and districts of the occupied territories in Mesopotamia. Volume I'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:232v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence