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'A strategical study of Persia and the Persian Gulf' [16] (24/150)
The record is made up of 1 volume (73 folios) and a box containing three maps. It was created in 1913. 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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topes soon to create both commercial and political interests with
the aid of the advancing Baghdad-Khaniqln Railway.
The Southern Zone.
25. The Southern Zone, or that portion of Persia lying to the
(a) Physical features as south of the so-called Russian sphere
affecting military opera- of influence, comprises the coast belt,
tions, mountains, nvers, for- the mountainous region stretchinsr paral-
ests, deserts, and lakes. i„i ^ i. i i-
lei to the coast, and a portion of the great
Iranian plateau. In it are included the provinces of Luristan,
'Arabistan, Fars, Laristan, Kirman, Southern Khorasan (includ
ing Sistan), and Persian Baluchistan.
26. The principal physical features of this area are the mountain
ranges, which, in continuation of the mountain system of Azar-
baijan, enter the area at its north-western boundary and run general
ly in a south-easterly direction parallel to the shores of the Persian
Gulf into Baluchistan. In the vicinity of the Baluchistan border
they decrease in height and are joined by a minor range from the
north and thence continue, still parallel to the coast, till they dis
appear as physical features in the valley of the Indus. . This moun
tain system consists of several parallel ranges separated by narrow
and tortuous valleys and forms the southern buttress of the Iranian
plateau. The chief significance of these mountains lies in the
barrier they impose to communications from the sea to Central
Persia; and though not absolutely continuous, few practicable
routes exist over them from the coast, such communications as
there are lying over passes of 4,000' and upwards. There is little
doubt, but that this barrier to communication from overseas is
to a large extent responsible for the lack of development of Central
Persia at the present day.
27. The only river of importance in the zone is the Karun, which,
rising in the mountainous district of the Br.khtiarl country,
drains the 'Arabistan plain and joins the Shatt-al-'Arab near
Muhammareh after a course of some 700 miles. This river is
unfordable to within some 50 miles of its source and is navigable
as far as Ahwaz. Further details will be found in paragraph 37,
Communications.
Other rivers in the area are—
The Ab-i-Diz, a considerable stream which rises nearBurajird
and joins the Kariin near Dizful after a course of some 360 miles.
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This volume contains a strategical study of Persia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the purpose of foreseeing the development of British military and commercial activity in Persia. The volume was prepared by the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India, and printed at the Government Monotype Press, Simla, 1913.
It is divided into four sections: 'Information', mainly of geographical and social kind (folios 5-30); 'Strategical Conditions'(folios 9-32); 'Social and Political Conditions' analysing how other national powers play out in the area (folios 31-55); 'General Conclusions' acknowledging the Russian influence over the Northern Zone and the British influence over the Southern Zone of Persia, including the Gulf and over lower Mesopotamia [Iraq], and analysing the Turkish claim over the area (folios 56-57) and 'Tables and Appendices' containing information on the Russian and Turkish armies and on the Persian and Arabic Tribes (folios 58-73).
There are three identical maps of Persia contained in a box enclosed to the volume, each containing statistic information supporting the strategical study.
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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 front cover, on number 1, and ends on the inside of the back cover, on number 75. Folios 65, 68 and 72-73 extend to about twice the size of the other folios. There is an original pagination, from 2-130.
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- 'A strategical study of Persia and the Persian Gulf'
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- front, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1:2, 1:121, 121a, 122:124, 124a, 125, 125a, 126:130, 130a, 131, 131a, 132, 132a, iii-r:iii-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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