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'A strategical study of Persia and the Persian Gulf' [‎46] (54/150)

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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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„ rpjjg gultan is an independent and autocratic ruler, who, like the
Shaikh of Kuwait, keeps good order in and around his capital,
Masqat, but whose authority is only nominal at a distance. He is at
present entirely friendly to the British and has been induced to co
operate in attempting to stamp out the traffic in arms across the
Gulf.
It must be understood that, except perhaps in the case of
the boundary between Kuwait and the Turkish province of Basrah,
the limits of the sections given above are indeterminate, no frontiers
in the proper sense of the word having ever been arrived at. The
limits inland of the various districts are still more vague as they
merge in the territories of the Arab tribes of the interior,
73 No reliable estimate can be given of the total population of
the Arabian coast littoral. The popula-
(e) Population. ^ion may roughly be divided into two
Bections.
(a) Sedentary population, that of the coast towns mostly
engaged in fishing, pearling and mercantile pursuits,
and the inhabitants of the oases in the interior engaged
in agriculture.
(b) The nomad Arabs from the interior.
The former section is of very mixed nationalities including hall
caste Arabs, Persians, Negroes and, in the eastern section, a large
number of Baluchis. The townspeople may be generally con-
sidered as of little fighting value. The true Arab on the other
hand is probably, as in other parts o£ the world, a good fighting
man. The Arab tribes are now well supplied with arms and am
munition.
74 The following figures give the estimated population of the
principal sections of the country.
Kuwait principality—sedentary population 37 ; 000 of whom no
less than 35,000 belong to the town and its immediate vicinity;
nomad population 13,000.
El Hasa is said to have a settled population of 101,000 of whom
67,000 inhabit the Hofuf oasis. The nomadic population of this
area is put at 57,000.
The principality of Bahrain is said to have a population of
100 000 practically all settled in towns and villages, the number of
nomada visiting these islands being inconsiderable.

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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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1 volume (73 folios) and a box containing three maps
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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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