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‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’ [167r] (338/366)
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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purpose of construting of a building for Messrs. Lynch in ac
cordance with their plans, to be let to them in accordance with
the agreement made at Muhammarah.
Thirdly, after the expiration of two years from the construc
tion of the quays the Government shall receive a payment, after
deduction of expenses, of 5 per cent, on the tolls of merchandise
levied on account of the quays.
A Hide 5 .—With regard to the mines of Arabistan and Bakh-
tiari, and the concession of coal mines in 'Arabistan and Bakh-
tiaristan this is given to the Nasiri Company in order that they
should facilitate the working of those mines and transport the
produce to native and foreign ports, and after deduction of all the
expenses of the aforesaid Company in the exploitation of the
coal mine 20 per cent, of the resulting profits is to be given to the
Company.
Note .—Article 5 refers solely to one coal mine which the late
Hussain Quli Khan
Ilkhani
The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran.
discovered some years ago, and
which the Khans of the Bakhtiari have made over to the Com
pany, and they have no right whatsoever to interfere in other
mines in ’Arabistan and Bakhtiari. The Government have the
right to have a vessel on the Upper Karun. The Company
is prohibited from selling or transferring this concession to
foreigners.
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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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