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‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’ [24r] (52/366)
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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37
with the Martin. Passing a place called Cham Mani, 4 miles
below the confluence, the river breaks through a belt of low hills
and emerges near Oham-us-Sabi into the Jarrahi district. Thence
it runs via Khalafabad to the village of Maqtti, 11 miles
north of Ma’shtir, where it changes direction and runs for about
10 miles west-north-west to Qarqar, where it leaves the Jarrahi
district and enters that of Fallahiyah. It then flows practically
west for 14 miles, and then turns south-west and runs for 5 miles
to Khazlnah, 2 miles north of Buzieh town, where it mostly is
dissipated into canals. The remaining stream now becomes the
Fallahiyah-Marid canal.
Above Cham-us-Sabi the river is broad and rapid with a
breadth of about 80 yards, and the banks, which are of no great
height, are covered with tamarisk. For some miles below
Cham-us-Sabi the same characteristics are preserved and the
stream is divided by islands. Below Khalafabad the Jarrahi
runs with a slow current and is 60 to 70 yards broad. From this
point onwards its breadth gradually diminishes to 40 yards.
(b) Navigation.—Boats 40 ft. long, with a beam of 6 to 8 ft.
and drawing 2 to 3 ft. of water, can ascend the river as far as
Khalafabad at all seasons. A bellam, which can be used as a ferry
boat, is kept at Maksar, and there is another at Haddameh.
(See Marid canal.)
(c) Fords. -The river is fordable in summer at numerous
places, and some fords near Khalafabad are fordable for laden
animals during the greater part of the year, except after recent
rain. There is a ford, difficult in Winter, one mile below Cham-
us-Sabi, and another unfordable in winter at Rahaneh, 8 miles
above Maksar.
(d) Canals .—More than 90% of the canals in Southern ’Arab-
istan branch off from the Jarrahi river, all of which irrigate
thousands of date palms and numerous acres of rice. Amongst
these belong the great Janjireh group of 21 canals, whilst in
addition there are 43 branching off from the right bank and 21
from the left bank of the Jarrahi river. Owing to the Ch’ab
tribe having settled for the most part on the banks of certain
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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).
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- 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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