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‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’ [70v] (145/366)
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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130
BAWIEH—
A once powerful tribe of the southern province of ’Arabistan
that has been broken by the Shaikh of Muhammarah and is now
completely under his control. Owing to their proximity to
Ahwaz the tribe recognises the Shaikh’s representative, Shaikh
Abdul Hamid, at that place as their chief and revenue is paid
direct to him by the minor Shaikhs of the tribe.
During the war in 1915 the Bawieh were affected by the
jihad preached at the instigation of the Turks and seriously
impeded our advance against the Turks by cutting the pipe line
and thus causing us to retain more troops on the Kanin than
would otherwise have been necessary^ At this time in conjunc
tion with the Cha’b the Bawieh intended to attack N siri; the
Cha’b, however, failed to come up to the scratch, and the Bawieh,
who came in contact with the Shaikh’s troops at Nasiri, were
compelled to retire. The result of this reverse was that the
Bawieh made their submission to the Shaikh of Muhammarah
and arrangements were immediately set on foot for the payment
of allowances to the tribe for the protection of the pipe line
through their territory. In September of 1915 a subsidy
of £1,000 was sanctioned for the Bawieh, who for this sum agreed
to guard their length of the pipe line. In the same month British
troops were sent to garrison Band-i-Qir, when nearly all the
Bawieh Chiefs turned out to welcome the column and accompany
it to its destination.
Owing to lack of water in 1921 the tribe was reduced t®
poverty and compelled to sell rifles and animals in order to live.
The Bawieh claims descent from the Arab hero, Muhalhal,
and consider their ancestry superior to that of the Cha’b.
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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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