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'Military Report and Route Book. The Arabian States of the Persian Gulf. 1939' [94r] (187/328)
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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may fairly be said to have been due to the support ot
His Majesty's Government.
3. Recent History. —In the years before the Great War
tribal feeling was inflamed by the stoppage of the arms
traffic, following upon the suppression of the slave trade,
at the instigation of Great Britain.
A carefully organized conspiracy followed and in May
1913 the Omani tribes rose in rebellion.
Reinforcements were despatched from India in accord
ance with a guarantee given to the Sultan in 1895 and the
Sheikhs of the interior were warned that attacks on Mus
cat or Matrah, or indeed on ports of the Batinah Coast,
would not be permitted.
This warning was disregardeo and a large force of rebels
under the so-called " Imam" made an attack on the
British outposts stationed at Beit-el-Felej in January 1915
and were heavily defeated. The Sultan, however, was not
permitted to follow up the victory and regain possession
of his lost territories, and by 1916 the rebels had obtained
complete control of Oman proper and established a Govern
ment, the nominal head of which is the self-styled
u Imam "• The Imam was murdered by his followers in
July 1920, and by September 1920 an agreement was reach
ed involving recognition by the Sultan of the practical
independence of the tribes of the interior.
Broadly speaking the situation has stabilized itself and
the tribes of Oman, while they would, without doubt, con
stitute a menace were the support of His Majesty's Gov
ernment withdrawn, have ceased, at least for the time
being, to harass the Sultan's Government. The present
Imam, Muhammad bin Abdullah al Khalili, is a puppet
in the hands of Sheikh Isa bin Saleh his powerful sup
porter—a shaikh of Al Harithi tribe.
The relations between the Sultan of Muscat and the
Imam of the Interior, who usually lives at Rostaq, are
peculiar. The boundaries between the respective spheres
of influence are not defined, but generally speaking the
Sultan's influence is confined to the coastal strip and that
of the Imam to the mountainous interior. A relative of
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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:
- The Arabian States of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Muscat and Oman, and Routes in the area (f 158);
- Kuwait Area (f 159);
- Bahrein, Hasa and Qatar (f 160);
- Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. (f 161);
- Muscat and Oman (f 162);
and sketches of:
- Bahrein Oil Company's area and important places (f 163);
- Sharjah and Dibai [Dubai] (f 158).
- Extent and format
- 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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- IOR/L/PS/20/C252
- Title
- 'Military Report and Route Book. The Arabian States of the Persian Gulf. 1939'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:156v, 158r:164v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence