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‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’ [114v] (233/366)
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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them of success and support, and negotiated for the Kalantar
family and Abdullah Banu Quarter headmen to umte for this
purpose. He escaped to Ahwaz and thence to Ramuz,
’ Abdul Hamid Khan ibn Khaz'al Khan,
Sirdar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Ajaf.-yThe
second son of Shaikh Khaz ’al, Shaikh of Muhammarah. H. it.
Shaikh Abdul Hamid Khan is Deputy Governor of Ahwaz
and controls the district of that name. He is also responsio e
to the Shaikh for the discipline of (1) The Mianab, (2)
Hawizah district, (3) Bani Turuf, and rules them through
the following chiefs,—
Shaikh Khalaf, Governor of Mianab.
Shaikh Molah, Governor of Hawizah.
Salih ibn Ghadhban, Governor of Bani Turuf.
Shaikh Sahar, Governor of Bani Tamim.
Shaikh ’Abdul Hamid is the most competent and reliable,
also the favourite, of the Shaikh of Muhammarah’s sons. A
young man of about 25.
’ Abdul Karim Khan,
Sirdar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Zashkar. —Son of the Shaikh
of Muhammarah Married the daughter of Ahmad Chelabi in
February 1919.
’ Abdul Hussain, Mutassir ul Mamalih —Born about
1872. He belongs to a former ruling family of Bushire, which
has now fallen on evil times. He was 14 years in Burma in
the employment of a British firm in "Rangoon and married a
Burmese wife, a British Indian subject, by whom he had several
children. In 1901 he returned to Persia and obtained the
post of Director of imperial Customs at Shushtar, which he
held till 1907. At the end of that year he moved to Ahwaz,
where he has since remained as Interpreter to the Imperial
Bank of Persia. He is very intelligent and well educated,
speaking and writing English fairly well. Of a jovial and
sociable temperament, and seeks the acquaintance and friend
ship of Europeans. He affects, probably with sincerity,
particular regard for the British.
'Abdul Majid ibn Khaz'al Khan,
Sirdar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Kishwar. —Third
son of Shaikh Khaz’al. Was Deputy Governor of Muham-
marah for about a year until the summer of 1922, when he had
to be removed. Most incapable. Lives at Muhammarah.
Age about 22.
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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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