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'Military Report on S. W. Persia, Volume II, Arabistan' [17r] (38/96)
The record is made up of 1 volume (44 folios). It was created in 1910. 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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be utilized : no difficulty ever experienced: no special equipment
or arrangements necessary, except sufficient supply of stout 30'
landing planks.
Boats .—
Name. Capacity. No. available.
Ballams .. 20 men or 5 tons .. 200
Baghalas .. 100 men or 40 tons .. 50
Iron lighters .. 100 men or 50 tons .. 4
Wooden barges .. (as for baghalas) .. 8
Above numbers are only approximate.
Landing ^ by boats. —Unlimited foreshore available : muddy:
never any difficulty: felled date trees make good landing place over
mud.
Wharves. —Customs 60 yards.
Lynch 50 yards.
River vessels can come nearly alongside at high water, and load
by planks at other times : goods man-handled : no equipment for
handling animals and no cranes, tramways or trollies : about 200
fms. cable available.
Coolies
A term used to describe labourers from a number of Asian countries, now considered derogatory.
. —Mostly ’Arabs, about 200 always available : employed
by the day : no local contractors : more
coolies
A term used to describe labourers from a number of Asian countries, now considered derogatory.
available at Basrah:
no special gangs or restrictions.
Store Depots. —Lynch’s warehouse, 50 yards from wharf: no other
suitable buildings : ample wharfage area on Customs and Lynch’s
wharves, behind Consulate, and along foreshore, about 6 plots of J
acre each available.
Convoy grounds. —Behind date groves in rear of Consulate, 600
yards distant from river: alluvial soil, no grazing.
Road and Building material. —No stone, only matting, date trees
and their leaves : bricks scarce, but are burnt locally ; bricks pur
chasable in Basrah.
Sanitation. — Town is J m. from landing place:
coolies
A term used to describe labourers from a number of Asian countries, now considered derogatory.
live
in mud or mat huts : sanitary arrangements nil: scavengers very
scarce indeed: mosquito curtains desirable, not essential.
Coinage. —Indian rupee freely current in Muhammareh, not
elsewhere.
European firms. —Lynch Brothers, agents also at Tehran, Isfa
han, Basrah, Baghdad, London: Gray Paul and Co., B. I. S. N.
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It consists of a military report on S W Persia, specifically Arabistan [Khūzestān], created for the personal information of the officers of the Army in India. Compiled in the Division of the Chief of the Staff, Army Head Quarters, India. Printed at the Government Monotype Press, Simla, 1910.
It includes a preface by Wilfrid Malleson, Assistant Quarter-Master General, Intelligence Branch.
It is divided into the following sections:
- general considerations – geographical, political, and commercial;
- military considerations – communications, supplies, transport, climate, military capacities of inhabitants, medical, and harbour reports;
- route reports – incorporating comments on the road, climate, supplies, grazing, fuel, water, transport and physical obstacles;
- appendices – including a table of principal tribes of Arabistan, a translation of Kārūn River Regulations, and abstracts of: the terms of an agreement between Sheikh Khaz'al and the Bakhtīārī Khāns; the Treaty of Erzeroum (1847), the Turko-Persian Boundary Agreement (England and Russia); the Boundary Agreement (Turkey and Persia); and the Nāsirī Company's Concession.
Also includes one map on folio 45: 'MAP to illustrate Military Report on S.W. PERSIA'.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (44 folios)
- Arrangement
The item consists of a single report and an accompanying map enclosed in a pocket on the inside back cover. A contents page at the front of the volume (f 5) and index at the rear (ff 39-43) both reference the volume’s original printed pagination.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 46; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'Military Report on S. W. Persia, Volume II, Arabistan'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:29v, 31r:31v, 39r:44v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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