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'Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman and Oman' [1] (15/226)
The record is made up of 1 volume (112 folios). It was created in 1933. 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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Military Report on the Arabian Shores
of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, Kuwait, Bahrein,
Hasa, Qatar,
Trucial Oman
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
and Oman,
1932,
CHAPTER I.
HISTORY.
The following historical notes on Kuwait, Bahrein,
Hasa, Qatar,
Trucial Oman
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
and Oman show the events
which have led up to the present political status of these
States.
Kuwait.
1. General. —The town of Kuwait came into existence
about the commencement of the 18th century, and was
founded by settlers of the 'Utub tribe or Bani 'TJtba, a
branch of the Anazah of Nejd. The 'Utub consisted of
three principal divisions; the Jalahimah, Al-Khalifah and
Al-Subah. The Al-Khalifah subsequently moved South and
conquered Bahrein where their descendants rule to the
present day, while the Al-Subah remained at Kuwait and
founded the present dynasty.
Kuwait sprang rapidly into an important commercial
centre and soon became the entrepot for the trade of Cen
tral and Northern Arabia, a position lost to it only within
the last few years by the blockade instituted by Ibn Saud.
Tt is still a centre of the pearl-fishing industry.
2. Belations with neighbours. —In the latter part of the
19th century, the relations of the Sheikhs of Kuwait with
their powerful neighbour in the west, Ibn Rashid, the chief
of the Shammar, were generally hostile, and it was largely
owing to the assistance of Sheikh Mubarak of Kuwait that
'Abdul-Aziz Ibn Saud, now ruler of Saudi Arabia (and at
one time a refugee in Kuwait), was able to conduct a
successful campaign against their common enemy, the
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The volume is Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. and Oman (Calcutta: Government of India Press, 1933). The volume was produced by the General Staff, India. The place name Bahrain is rendered in the title and elsewhere in the volume in the spelling 'Bahrein'.
The volume contains information in separate sections for each of the places listed in the title under the following chapter headings:
- I Historical (ff 8-14);
- II Geography, Climate, Health (ff 15-54);
- III Population (ff 54-67);
- IV Water Supply; Resources (ff 68-70);
- V Armed Forces (ff 70-75);
- VI Aviation (ff 75-78);
- VII Political (ff 79-81);
- VIII Inter-Communication [wireless and telegraph] (ff 81-82);
- IX Communications [land routes] (ff 83-98).
There are three appendices, which follow the same format:
- I Currency, Weights and Measures (f 99-102);
- II Landing Facilities - Maritime (ff 103-106);
- III List of Maps (f 106).
The volume includes five maps of the region (ff 109-113).
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- 1 volume (112 folios)
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There is a list of contents on ff 6-7, which contains an inaccuracy in the title and number of the last chapter.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 113 on the last of the five maps inserted in a pocket attached to the back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. All five maps (ff 109, 110, 111, 112, 113) need to folded out to be examined. This is the system used to determine the sequence of pages in the volume.
Pagination: an original printed pagination sequence, numbered 2-198 appears between ff 8-106.
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- 'Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman and Oman'
- Pages
- front, front-i, i-r:iii-r, ii-v, iv-r:iv-v, 1:4, 1:208, v-r:v-v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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