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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [259v] (521/862)
The record is made up of 1 volume (430 folios). It was created in 1944. 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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ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC LIFE
394
three official members and four others elected by the qadha and
municipal councils. The council meets regularly and passes resolu
tions on matters referred to it by the mutasarrif. The qaimmaqam is
the chief executive officer of the qadha and carries out the instructions
of the mutasarrif to whom he reports. He presides over the qadha
administrative council, consisting of three official and four non
official members. The mudir is the executive officer in his own nahiya
and carries out the instructions of the qaimmaqam and mutasarrif.
Municipalities (p. 395) are under the general control of the mutasarrif.
Mutasarrifs are appointed by the Council of Ministers; qaimmaqams
and mudirs by the Prime Minister on the recommendation of the
Minister of the Interior.
Provincial Areas
The provinces are generally considerably smaller than the former
Turkish sanjaqs which they superseded. In northern Iraq they cor
respond well to geographical features. Mosul, Erbil, and Kirkuk pro
vinces consist of the three divisions of the Assyrian plains and most
of the mountain basins of the Great and Little Zabs, which form
the provincial boundaries within the plains, and the basin of the
Adhaim. Sulaimaniya consists of the mountain basin of the Diyala
and also of the left-bank tributaries of the upper Little Zab. One
political effect of this arrangement is to divide the mountain Kurds
into four political but not artificial compartments. In southern Iraq
some of the divisions seem geographically rather arbitrary, but tribal
factors have influenced the provincial arrangements. The former
Baghdad vilayet (fig. 73) has been divided into seven liwas in the
place of the three Turkish sanjaqs. The subdivision of the Middle
Euphrates zone into three provinces (Hilla, Diwaniya, Karbala) and
the virtual limitation of Karbala province to the territory of the
Holy Cities are of special interest. The Upper Euphrates province of
Dulaim is both a natural and a tribal unit, except for the artificial
division of the Jazira, the grazing-ground of beduin and shepherd
nomads, between Dulaim and Mosul provinces. Baghdad, Diyala,
and Kut provinces are reasonable subdivisions of the agricultural
zones of these rivers and their canals together with a desert hinterland,
though the inclusion in Baghdad of a desert zone eastwards to the
Iraqi border seems to serve no purpose, except to isolate administra
tively Diyala and Kut provinces.
The three southern provinces, Amara, Muntafiq, and Basra, cor
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The volume is titled Iraq and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (London: Naval Intelligence Division, 1944).
The report contains preliminary remarks by the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1942 (John Henry Godfrey) and the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1944 (E G N Rushbrook).
There then follows thirteen chapters:
- I. Introduction.
- II. Geology and description of the land.
- III. Coasts of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
- IV. Climate, vegetation and fauna.
- V. History.
- VI. People.
- VII. Distribution of the people.
- VIII. Administration and public life.
- IX. Public health and disease.
- X. Irrigation, agriculture, and minor industry.
- XI. Currency, finance, commerce and oil.
- XII. Ports and inland towns.
- XIII. Communications.
- Appendices: stratigraphy; meteorological tables; ten historical sites, chronological table; weights and measures; authorship, authorities and maps.
There follows a section listing 105 text figures and maps and a section listing over 200 illustrations.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (430 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is divided into a number of chapters, sub-sections whose arrangement is detailed in the contents section (folios 7-13) which includes a section on text-figures and maps, and list of illustrations. The volume consists of front matter pages (xviii), and then a further 682 pages in the original pagination system.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 430; 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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- 'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:253r, 254r, 255r:429v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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