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‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’ [22v] (49/366)
The record is made up of 1 volume (179 folios). It was created in 1924. 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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Communication .—Signalling communication with Shush ©an
be opened from Mill tower or conical hill on the west bank.
Guide.—A guide can be obtained from the headman of the
village Saki.
(3) SHAVUR (OR SHAuR), ORIGINALLY SHAPtjR.
A river of ’Arabistan, which rises from springs in the plain
between the rivers Karkheh and Diz at Aivan-i-Kasra or Asiran-
i-Karkheh.
Some twelve miles below its source, flowing nearly south and
parallel to the Karkheh, from which it is never many miles dis
tant, it washes the western foot of the ruins of Shush or Susa.
At this point it is 1J miles east of the river Karkheli and miles
west of the Ab-i-Diz. Continuing southward Kut-al-Mihdi is
passed at 20 miles. Here the Shavur bends south-south-east
towards the Diz river, passing Khairabad at 55 miles and Deh-
i-Sayid Musa at 60 miles, both on the right bank. Thence for
ward the river curves more and more to the east towards the
river Diz, and begins to leave the Karkheh which soon after
wards bends south-west towards Hawizah. Passing within
2 miles of Deh-i-Pur Muhammad on the right bank at about 64
miles, the Shavur joins the river Diz by two branches above
Band-i-Qir after a course of about 75 miles by water, or of 60
miles neglecting bends. These two branches separate at
Hawizah and enter the larger river at 38 and 26 miles respectively
by water above Band-i-Qlr. The former of these branches is
named the Sharish, and the latter the Kharur ; both contain
water at all seasons of the year but the Kharur is more import
ant. Originally the Shavur flowed into the river Karun, from
the north west a little below Wais and, at a later period, near
Ahwaz. After deserting this bed it adopted a more southerly
channel, joining the main river near Ahwaz. Later again it
struck northwards and in 1842 was found entering the Ab-i-Diz
at a point 12 miles above Band-i-QTr. This channel appears to
have been more or less maintained till the present day.
The Shavur is of canal-like appearance, its course is wind
ing, and its width of 25 to 30 yards is fairly uniformly maintain
ed. At least in some of the upper reaches, the banks are high (6 to
12 feet above the water) and the river is in some places unford-
abie ; but taking it throughout its length, the stream is sluggish,
its banks and bed soft and of alluvial soil, and it can be forded
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Confidential military report on Arabistan [Khūzestān] compiled by Air Headquarters, Iraq, and printed by the Government of India Press, 1924.
The report contains nine chapters (numbered I-IX) and seven appendices (A-G) as follows:
- chapter I – history (general, ancient, modern, political attitude);
- II – geography (boundaries, area, general description, altitude, mountains, rivers and fords, towns and villages, tracts of land, islands, fortified places, political divisions);
- III – climate (general, temperature, winds, rainfall, mirages, general medical and sanitary conditions, principal diseases, conditions affecting aviation and military operations);
- IV – economic resources (general, labour, agriculture, livestock, manufacture, power, commerce, customs, banking, revenue, tables of imports and exports);
- V – ethnography (general, population, races, religions, languages);
- VI – tribes (general, armed forces, tribes in relation to possible centres of disturbance, political attitudes, military considerations, tribal action, punitive measures, recapitulation, lists of tribes);
- VII – personalities;
- VIII – communications (general, communications by sea, inland waterways, railways, telegraphs and telephones, post, aerodromes and possible aerodromes, wireless and visual communication, principal routes by land, sea and river);
- IX – administration (general, government establishments, northern province, southern province);
- appendix A – bibliographical notes;
- B – weights and measures, coinage and time;
- C – glossary of topographical terms;
- D – Karun river [Rūd-e Kārūn] regulations;
- E – concession granted to the “Nasiri Company”;
- F – customs schedule;
- G – Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
The volume contains a single map in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folio 180).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (179 folios)
- Arrangement
A contents list (ff 4-5) and index (ff 171-177) reference the report’s 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 181; 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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