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‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’ [57r] (118/366)
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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103
(3) The Arabs are undisciplined but controlled to a certain
extent by thd Shaikh of Muhammarah and the knowledge that
he has the support of the British Government.
(4) All tribesmen are poor fighters, faint-hearted and bad
marksmen.
(5) Internal dissensions would prevent the Shaikh of Muham
marah from ever creating a combined fighting force out of his
tribes, and for the same reasons a general rising among the tribes
against the Shaikh of Muhammarah is a possibility that need
scarcely be entertained.
Tribal List.
Minor Tribe, Section or
Sub-section.
Main Tribe or Confedera
tion.
N. B .—-The numerous small tribes in the Hindian, Zaitan
Bandar Ma’shur and Jarrahi districts belonging to no main
tribe or Confederation have been recorded in these
lists under the heading of their districts.
A
*Abad
’Abbad, Albu
’Abbadi, Albu
Abbas, Bait
Abbas, Bait A1
’Abdi Nebi, Albu
Abdu Wais
Abdul Khan
Abdul Latif
’Abdul, Saiyid Bait
’Abdullah, A1
Abdullah Bait
Hindian
A1 Khamis
Cha’b al Gubbam
Bani Lam
Bani Lam
Bani Turuf
Bani Lam
Bani Turuf
Bani Turuf
Bani Turuf
Salamat
Bani Hardan
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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.
- Physical characteristics
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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- ‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:163v, 168r:168v, 171r:179v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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