‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’ [‎134r] (272/366)

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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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10 miles, and Ab-Gungi, 12 miles with the last s&age to Bati
knazinah of B miles. This ronto is also fit for all arms, but is
more exposed to attack.
TFater.—-At Pladdam water must be obtained from Hasan
■Sayid on the Abd-G&rgar, 2 miles east of Haddam. There is
'water at Ab-Gungi
Supplies.—liil at Haddam. Can be obtained at Ab-Gungl
either from the Tillages in the hills or from Dar-i-khaHnah.
0 oT:%?uunicciyioTo.'--^- r r elephone communication with All wax
mnd other stations on the first part of the road at Haddam and
Ab'-Gungi
Camping grounds. —Ample,
inhab iianis.—Gimduzlus.
Stages.
1. WAIS. 16. 16.
2 . HABBAM. 18. 18. General direction N. to Band-i-
. Qlr, thenee H. E. to Haddam. A
heavy sandy patch has to be crossed shortly after leaving Band-
l-Qlr. The road follows the telephone line. Sayid Hasan can
fee seen from Haddam. The dry river bed, which is crossed
immediately before Haddam is reached, forms the northern
limit to the Shaikh of Muhammarah’s boundary.
3 . BAR-I-KHAZINAH. 20 . 54 . General direction H. N. E.
to Ab-Gungi, which lies at the
foot of the hnls, and W. KT. W. from there to Bar-i-khazinah.
The road from Haddam to Ab-Gungi follows the pipe line through
the Kharam lands, the property of some Shushtar Sayids. For
3 miles the road runs through steep banks on either side, which
appear alternatively high and low after the nature of a switch-
back. In the vicinity of Haddam, about 1 mile from the
A. P. O. C,, telephone hut the country is much broken and
would afiord easy cover to an enemy wishing to lay an ambush
for troops on the road. The route would be difficult to protect
on its flanks. From Ab-Gungi to Bar-i-khazinah the road
passes through 6 large ravines. Special precautions would have
to be taken to guard from surprise from these ravines.
(For route to the Oil Fields, vide Route No. 16) s
MC164CGS

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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).

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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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English in Latin script

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Reference: IOR/L/MIL/17/15/16
Title: ‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’
Pages: front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:163v, 168r:168v, 171r:179v, back-i
Author: East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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