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'Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman and Oman' [97] (111/226)
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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GHAP. III.—POPULATION BAHREIN. 97
Bahrein.
1. Ethnography—The largest community in the prin
cipality is that of the Bahama who compose the majority
of the Shiah community and about | of the rural popu
lation.
They are undoubtedly Semitic in race, but little is
known about their origin, except that they were settled on
the islands at tlie time of the occupation by Arabs from the
mainland, towards the end of the 18th century.
In the year 1783 Bahrein was overrun by Arab tribes
chiefly from the neighbourhood of Kuwait and their des-
cendents form the Sunni Arab population of the present
day.
The slave trade accounts for the large numbers of
negroes.
Persians have been established in the islands since the
year 1601, and immigration has continued since. They
come from Persian ports, notably Lingah.
2. Characteristics. —The population of Bahrein has been
estimated at 120,000. Of this number Manama and its
environs account for 40,000; Muharraq and Hidd for 30,000;
while the villages account for the remaining 50,000.
The inhabitants of the villages are chiefly Baharinah,
Shiah, and form % of the rural population. They are
mainly agricultural, but also depend though to a less
extent, than their Sunni brethren, on pearl diving and
other seafaring occupations. As a class their condition
approximates closely to that of serfdom. The population
of the towns of Manama and Muharraq is unusually mixed,
being composed of Sunni Arabs, Shia Arabs, Sunni Per
sians and Shia Persians, negroes and Indians. The Per
sian is the largest foreign community and they are said to
number 15,000. They have doubled their numbers in the
last ten years. The negroes number about 5,000. Indian
Hindus are about 300 and Muslims 200, and are principally
located in Manama.
There is an important colony of natives of Hasa and
Nejd, and a few Basra Arabs and Jews.
For about half the year there is an influx of foreigners
who come for the pearl diving. Pearl divers come from
most of the Gulf ports, the largest contingent coming from
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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).
- Extent and format
- 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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