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'Arabia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 90' [90] (105/148)
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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90 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS [No. 90
Petroleum exists in the Farsan Islands. It was
investigated by a French engineer, and in 1912 a con
cession for 75 years was granted to the Red Sea Oil
fields Company, who are the proprietors of a similar
enterprise cn the Egyptian side of the Red Sea.
(5) Manufacture
The manufactures of Arabia are very small and
unimportant. As there is no coal and only an incon
siderable amount of iron, there is no prospect whatever
of industrial development. Except for the gold and
silver work done by skilled Hindu craftsmen at Muscat,
some native cotton goods sent from the same port, and
the abbas (Arab cloaks), of especially good quality,
woven in the Jauf el-Amr oasis, not a, single product
of Arab industry is exported. The rest of the native
industry is merely an attempt to supply a part of the
simple domestic needs of the country, with the help
only of the most primitive appliances.
Muscat was long the centre of flourishing cotton
and silk industries, but of late years these have been
ousted by the cheaper products of Bombay and
America. There is still a spasmodic production, for
statistics of certain years show a considerable export.
Textiles. —A coarse striped cotton cloth is woven
on hand-looms at Hodeida by a colony of weavers
who removed there from Zebid and Beit el-Faki on
account of tribal disturbances. Spinning and weav
ing are carried on by very primitive methods in the
Aden hinterland, where the chief centres areNisab and
Markha, near which cotton and indigo are grown.
At Dhala, in the same district, the Jews are occupied
in the spinning of cotton thread, and at Yeshbum
raw cotton from Nisab is spun. A little weaving is
done at Muscat, Nizwa, and Ibri, in Oman, and
there is a similar industrv, now declining, at Terim,
in the Hadhramaut. The Gulf districts and the
interior oases have a small output, but in Nejd the
only textile made is a coarse woollen cloth used for
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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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