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'Military report on Arabistan (Area no 13)' [55] (70/364)
The record is made up of 1 volume (178 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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lamentations, which are obligatory on Shfahs during the month
of Muharram, and as refugees for destitute strangers and pil
grims, but also serving as inns. There are numerous khans in
Muhamraarah, but these instead of being hostelries, as in
Iraq, are merely places gf business, or warehouses, where mer
chants store their goods."
Of the various ingredients that form the population of
Muhammarah, the Bahrainis are mostly small shop-keepers
and mechanics ; the Sabians are silversmiths; the Jews deal in
Manchester goods ; and the Christians are clerks or lightermen.
There are also 6 gunsmiths, who repair rifles and revolvers, the
most prominent of these being Haji 'Abbas and Jtiaji Kadhin.
{d) Foreign Trade. —Details of foreign trade with Muham
marah are mentioned in Chapter IV, but owing to its functions
as a port its connection with foreign trade must not be omitted
here. Of the foreign trade nominally belonging to Muham
marah, by far the greater part really depends on places upon
the Kariin and up-country. The town is accessible to ocean
going steamers, but owing to the narrowness of the Karun and
the consequent difficulty of swinging, they discharge their
cargoes opposite the village of Ma'muri without leaving the
Shatt-al-'Arab. Cargoes, etc., are transhipped at Muhammarah
to the river steamers and conveyed thus to Nasiri. Muham
marah is the port of supply for the whole province of'Arabistan
and to a very large extent the province of Isfahan and the
Bakhtiari country as regards imported goods ; it is also the port
of shipment of goods from the interior of Persia.
(e) Administration. —The town is nominally governed by
a deputy of the Shaikh, called the Naib-al-Hukumeh, though
that position is at present vacant owing to the incapability
of the last two deputy governors, who were removed by the
Shaikh, and the government is in the hands of the Rais-al-Tujjar.
The Shaikh has a hoshiyah, or personal guard, of 120 ghulam,
whilst for the preservation cf law and order in the town there
exists a police force of four officers and ninety men under 'Azi
Deen.
(/) Camping grounds. —There is ample space for camping
grounds in the desert behind and close to the town.
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Military report on Arabistan [Khuzestan] province, compiled by Air Headquarters, Iraq, and printed in 1924 (Simla: Government of India Press).
The report is organised into nine chapters (with subsections), each covering a different subject, plus appendices, as follows:
Chapter I - History (General; Ancient; Modern; Political Attitude).
Chapter II - Geography (Boundaries; Area; General description; Altitude; Mountains; Rivers (Navigable); Other Rivers and Fords; Towns; Villages; Tracts of land; Islands; Fortified places; Political divisions).
Chapter III - Climate (General; Temperature; Winds; Rainfall; Mirage; General Medical and Sanitary Conditions; Chief diseases; Conditions affecting Aviation; Conditions affecting Operations).
Chapter IV - Economic Resources (General; Labour; Agriculture; Livestock; Manufactures; Power; Commerce; Customs; Banking; Revenue; Tables A, B and C).
Chapter V - Ethnography (General; Population; Races; Religions; Languages).
Chapter VI - Tribes (General; Armed Forces; Tribes in relation to possible centres of disturbance; Political Attitude; Military Considerations; Tribal Action; Punitive Measures; Recapitulation; Tribal Lists (separate index in alphabetical order)).
Chapter VII - Personalities (General; Personalities (in alphabetical order); Index to Personalities (in alphabetical order)).
Chapter VIII - Communications (General; Communication with the sea; Inland Water; Methods of travelling; Railways; Telegraphs and Telephones; Postal; Aerodromes; Possible aerodromes; Wireless Communication; Visual Communication; Principal Routes).
Chapter IX - Administration (General; Government Establishments; Northern Province; Southern Province).
Appendices: A. Bibliographical Notes; B. Weights and Measures, Coinage and Time; C. Glossary of Topographical Terms; D. Karun River Regulations; E. Concession granted to the 'Nasiri Company'; F. Customs Schedule; G. Anglo-Persian Oil Company [APOC].
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- 1 volume (178 folios)
- Arrangement
There is a table of contents at the beginning (folios 4-5) of the volume, with numbers referring to printed pagination. At the back (folios 171-177) there is an index, arranged alphabetically, with numbers also referring to printed pagination.
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Foliation: the sequence is circled in pencil in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the front cover, on number 1, and ends on the inside of the back cover, on number 180.
Pagination: there is also 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, i-r:ii-v, 1:4, 1:344, iii-r:iv-v, 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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