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'Arabia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 90' [23] (38/148)
The record is made up of 1 volume (69 folios). It was created in 1919. 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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Arabia]
BRITISH POWER
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takes great part not only in the Gulf pearl-
fishery, but also in sea-going trade.
(b) Bahrein, El-Katr, and the Trucial Chiefdoms
alike depend on the pearl fishery, the first
named having the lion's share both of produc
tion and of transit trade.
(c) Muscat, with its dependent ports (the only ports
with natural advantages on the south-east
angle of the peninsula), is the outlet of the
largest district of continuous fertility in
Arabia, except the south-west (Yemen and
Aden hinterland), and the inlet for the most
numerous settled population which purchases
more than bare necessities.
Great Britain. —British power first established a
political footing in Arabia in virtue of a treaty con
cluded with the Sultan of Muscat in 1798. But it
did not take any Arabian territory into permanent
occupation till 1839. Nor, by the seizure of Aden at
that date, did its policy contemplate territorial gain
any more than it did by making its treaties with the
Gulf chiefs, but was bent only on policing the Eastern
Seas by the establishment of a half-way fortress on the
Red Sea route to India. To this end it believed control
of nothing more than the harbour of Aden would
suffice, and Great Britain long remained wholly in
different to the hinterland, in spite of its relation to
the best port in south-west Arabia as a source of sup
plies and exporter and importer of commodities. This
policy has had in the end to be modified, and some
British control to be exerted over the chief doms of the
south-west Arabian angle.
Youngest of all the dynasties which are ruling
more than one town and its district is that of the Idrisi
of Sabia. The present Idrisi himself has raised his
family above the standing of other local sheikhs in the
southern Tihama. His house is not of Arabian
origin, or ancient nobility, or early settlement in
Arabia. His grandfather, a native of Fez, after
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This volume contains information on the geography, political history and economic conditions of Arabia and was published by the Historical Section of the Foreign Office in April 1919.
It is divided into four sections: 'Geography Physical and Political'; 'Political History'; 'Political Conditions' and 'Economic Conditions'. There is an Appendix, containing tables regarding trade in Aden, Muscat and Bahrein, 1909-1917.
There is a map 'Sketch Map of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Arabia', compiled by the War Office on June 1914.
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- 1 volume (69 folios)
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Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which 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 first folio with text, on number 1, and ends on the map on a sleeve on the inside back cover, on number 70.
Pagination: There is also an original pagination, iv-vi, 2-127.
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- 'Arabia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 90'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:6, 1:130, ii-r:ii-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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