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'Military Report and Route Book. The Arabian States of the Persian Gulf. 1939' [‎11r] (21/328)

The record is made up of 1 volume (157 folios and 7 maps in pocket). It was created in 1940. 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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PART I.
SECTION A.
KUWAIT.
CHAPTER I.
History, Administration and Population.
1. General—The town of Kuwait came into existence
about the commencement of the 18th century, and was
founded by settlers of the 'Utub tribe or Bani ' Utba, a
branch of the Anazah of Nejd. The 'Utab consisted of
three principal divisions : the Jalahimah, Al-Khalifah and
Al-Subah. The Al-Khalifah subsequently moved South
and conquered Bahrein where the r descendants rule to
the present day, wh le the Al-Subah remained at Kuwait
and founded the present dynasty.
Kuwait sprang rapidly into an important commercial
centre and soon became the entrepot for the trade of Cen
tral and Northern Arabia, a position lost to it only within
the last few years by the blockade instituted by Ibn .Saud.
It is still a centre of the pearl-fishing 1 industry.
The formation of the Kuwait Oil Company in Jan
uary 1934, and the grant to the Company of a conces
sion covering the whole of the Kuwait territory in 1935,
brought increased prosperity to Kuwait.
2. Early History —In the latter part of the 19th
century, the relations of the Sheikhs of Kuwait with
their powerful neighbour in the west, Ibn Rash d, the
chief of the Shammar, were generallv hostUe. and it
was largely owing to the assistance of "Sheikh Mubarak
Kuwait that Abdul-Aziz Ibn Saud, now ruler of
Saudi Arabia (and at one time a refugee in Kuwait),
was able to conduct a successful campaign against their
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This volume contains geographical information and maps about the Arabian States of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . It was produced by the General Staff, India, and printed by the Manager, Government of India Press, Simla, 1940.

The volume is divided into two sections: 'Military Report' including general descriptions of Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , Muscat and Oman (folios 6-127) and 'Routes' (folios 128-164) including maps of:

and sketches of:

  • Bahrein Oil Company's area and important places (f 163);
  • Sharjah and Dibai [Dubai] (f 158).
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1 volume (157 folios and 7 maps in pocket)
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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 last of several maps which are stored in a pocket at the back of the volume, on number 164.

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