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‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’ [30r] (64/366)
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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the religious heads have no control over the people. The most
important of these is Sayid Ja’far ibn Haji Sayid Abdul Samad r
who has good influence and is a friend of the British and the
Shaikh but any power that he might wield is kept in check
through fear of the Shaikh.
(c) Camping grounds .—There is ample camping ground on
the right bank opposite the bazaar for any number of troops.
Troops were encamped here during the war and a few temporary
buildings are still standing. On the left bank camping grounds
can be found either in the desert outside Nasirt or better on the
river bank upstream of Ahwaz, 2b to 3 miles from Nasirl.
(d) Water .—Water must be taken from the Karun. The
water is sweet.
(e) Transport .—In addition to the A. P. O. C. river steamers
running between Ahwaz and Muhammarah Messrs. Lynch &
Coy., run one steamer, S. S. Malamir, when occasion demands
and Muin al Tujjar the S. S. Aasrat. There are also 10 local
motor boats. The A. P. 0. 0. run boats between Ahwaz and
Darakhazinah, 50 miles north of Ahwaz. Regarding land
transport besides the cars of the A. P. O. C. local cars ply
between Nasiri and Muhammarah, Dizful, Shushtar, Ram
Hormuz. Of these there are nine in all. The Nasirl-Ahwaz
tramway line is used for the purpose of conveying cargo past
the rapids, which lie between Ahwaz and Nasiri, vide Karun
River. This line which was originally constructed for a horse
tram way is now also used for a light steam railway by the A. P. O.
C. It has a total length of about 2,500 yards with a gauge of
3 ft. For further details vide Persian Gazetteer.
(/) Administration .—The Shaikh of Muhammarah’s second
son, Shaikh Abdul Hamid,* controls the town. The Shaikh
himself has in recent years spent a great deal of his time at
Nasiri. The population is quiet and easily ruled.
(4) AHWAZ.
Ahwaz itself is no more than a large village of some 1,000
souls, situated immediately upstream of Bandar Nasiri. Ahwaz
is the older of the two towns and the district is named after it,
but owing to its position above the rapids it has lost its former
importance and the larger and still growing town of Nasiri has
taken its place. Nasiri however is nearly always referred to
by the British as Ahwaz, but the Arab invariably calls the two
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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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