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‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’ [25r] (54/366)
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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in the Ramuz district lie respecti vely 13 and 28 miles up from its
junction with the Bulawas. The valley of the Marun in the Ramuz
district is 1 to 2 miles wide, flat and enclosed by cliffs, 50 to 100
feet high. The stream is 50 to 100 yards broad, 3 to 6 feet deep
and has a strong current. The banks are bordered with thick
willow jungle. About 5 miles above Sultanabad the Marin
receives on its right bank a tributary of fresh water called
Mamuhieh, 10 yards wide and three feet deep, fringed with
willows and oleanders. On the north side of the river in places
are grassy plains with thorn trees. The river has also been
called the Rud-i-Marun or Rumarun.
(8) GfjPAL.
A brackish stream which traverses the great plain common to
the Ramuz and Ahwaz districts, forming a somewhat serious
obstacle on the Nasiri-Ramuz road. The Gupal consists of
merely the surplus water of a canal which takes off from the right
bank of the Ramuz river at a point about 5 miles north of Ramuz
town. At about 4 miles north of the town the river is augmented
by a brackish tributary, which has its rise in the gypsum hills;
the increased stream continues to flow north-westwards, keeping
within a mile of the hills and parallel to them, until the mounds
of Kut-ush-Shaikh are reached, lying about 2 miles to the south
ward. After three or four miles the Gupal changes direction to
the south-west, and so passes about 6 miles north of the village
of Mirbacheh. Near this it receives on the left bank two tribu
taries, the fresh stream which has its course about a mile
eastward of Mirbacheh, and the salt Muwailah stream. About
9 miles after passing Mirbacheh a salt stream from the north
called Kundak falls into the Gupal on its right bank.
Eventually, about 12 miles west of Mirbacheh the Gupal
intersects the usual route between Nasiri and Ramuz; there is
some choice of crossing places. At this point in its course the
water of the Gupal is salt even after rain. The banks, which are
in most parts perpendicular and of clay, rise about 20 feet above
the level of the bed, and the distance between them varies from
20 to 70 yards. In summer the Gupal is almost dry : in winter
it sometimes rises 20 or 30 feet and overflows its banks and at
that season it may be found either fordable or unfordable.
Quicksands occur.
About 300 yards below that point the river bends to the west,
and 8 miles further down it is drawn off in a southerly direction
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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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