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'Military Report on S. W. Persia, Vol. III. Bakhtiāri Country North of Kārūn River' [5r] (14/144)
The record is made up of 1 volume (68 folios). It was created in 1909-1910. 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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PREFACE TO PART III.
This Report was compiled by Lieutenant A. T. Wilson, 32nd
Sikh Pioneers, whilst on duty in South-West Persia in command of
the “ Indian Oil Guards,” a detachment of 20 men sent out in
December 1907 for the protection of the European employes and
works of the Oil Company at Maidan Minaftun.
The
writer
The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
has not been able to travel himself over the greater
part of the district described in this volume, and has therefore had
to rely to some extent upon Major Sawyer’s report, 1891, for
geographical details, largely supplemented by more recent informa
tion. But in the main the report is based upon new material,
obtained to a large extent from Captain D. L. R. Lorimer, I.A.,
His Britannic Majesty’s Consul at Ahwaz, whose official duties
and extensive tours during the past three years have brought him
into close touch with the Bakhtiari, with the result that the glamour
that had come to be associated with their name has been dispelled,
and that they have been shown in their true light. Whatever
they once were, the Bakhtiari have now been in contact with Persians
for sufficiently long to enable them to assimilate most of the vices
of the latter, whilst at the same time losing much of their independ
ence of character.
Part I of this report (Bakhtiari Garmsir) should be consulted
for details regarding the low hills south of the Karun, and Part II
for information regarding ’Arabistan.
Each part contains route reports, and an Index, and may
be looked upon as a military handbook to the district dealt with,
including all information of importance recorded in the larger
route books, or the Gazetteers.
All officers to whom this book is issued are particularly request
ed to bring immediately to the notice of this office any errors they
may notice, and also to forward from time to time any additional
authenticated information which may reach them.
Army Head Quarters ; W. MALLE80N, Colonel,
r Assistant Quarter Master General,
Simla, 1st September 1909 J Intelligence Branch,
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It consists of a military report on S W Persia, specifically Bakhtiāri Country North of Kārūn River, 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 by Lieutenant A T Wilson, 32nd Sikh Pioneers. 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:
- geographical – boundaries, mountain ranges, rivers, lakes, and geology;
- general – Bakhtiāri levies, bridge constructions, and revenue;
- tribal – history, organisation, numbers, customs, land ownership, and taxation;
- communications – via various routes, condition of tracks, and construction of a cart road;
- climate;
- strategical - possibility of collision with Russia and intervention by Great Britain, comparison of routes, recommendations, and composition of force;
- routes – broken down into stages and incorporating comments on the road, climate, transport, fuel, supplies, water, grazing, and physical obstacles;
- appendices – including documents relating to the Ahwāz-Isfahān road, tables of tribal sub-divisions and strength of the Haft Lang and the Chehār Lang, and biographical notices of certain Bakhtiāri Khāns by David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer, British Consul, Ahwāz [Ahvāz].
Also includes five maps:
- folio 65: 'SKELETON MAP OF BAKHTIĀRI COUNTRY Showing routes and chief rivers';
- folio 66: 'SECTION FROM 'ALWĀNĪYEH ('ARABISTĀN) TO KHARĀJĪ THE LYNCH ROAD, ROUTE NO. I. AHWĀZ TO ISFAHĀN';
- folio 67: 'ISFAHĀN—DEH KURD—'ALĪ KŪH—CHARĪ—BĀZUFT—CHILAU' and 'ISFAHĀN—URŪJĀN—ARDAL—GURĀB—BĀZUFT—CHILAU';
- folio 68: 'FARAIDAN—TANG-I-GAZĪ—GIL-I-SHĀH—BĀZUFT—CHILAU' and 'FARAIDAN—TANG-I-GAZĪ—PAMBAKĀL—BĀZUFT—CHILAU';
- folio 69: 'BURBARŪD—KALEH HUMA—MAKHADĪ—BĀZNAWĪ—PUL-I-SHĪRAK—PUL-I-KUL—DIZFŪL' and 'FARAIDAN—TANG-I-GAZĪ—GALA GĀO—PĪR SAIYID—BĀZNAWĪ—PUL-I-KUL—DIZFŪL'.
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- 1 volume (68 folios)
- Arrangement
The item consists of a single report with five accompanying maps enclosed in a pocket on the inside back cover. A contents page at the front of the volume (f 4) and index at the rear (ff 61-63) 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 70; 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, Vol. III. Bakhtiāri Country North of Kārūn River'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:51v, 54r:64v, back-i
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