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'MILITARY REPORT ON PERSIA. VOL. IV, PART II.' [12r] (28/212)
The record is made up of 1 volume (102 folios). It was created in 1922-1924. 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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CHAPTER II
Geography.
Southern Persia, except for a coastal strip some 15 to 30 General -
miles broad, is a country of ranges of rugged and barren hills,
almost all running from north-west to south-east and gradually
rising step by step till the valleys in the centre are from four to
seven thousand feet above sea level. Needless to say these
hills offer considerable obstacle to the progress of troops.
It is in the valleys that the life of Persia lies, and they are
often exceedingly fertile and well-watered and have been, con
sidered by experts to be capable of supporting a population at
least ten times as numerous as is now' to be found in them. The
irrigation system has been well developed as far as carrying the
water along from where it is found to where it is needed, but
there is no system of reservoirs, and a vast amount of water runs
to waste in the salt lakes of the country. The water system is
a very complicated one and leads to a number of disputes every
year. It would require very careful handling in an occupation
of the country, if popular feeling was not to be aroused. The
country is practically devoid of trees except where they have
been cultivated or protected in private gardens ; this is possibly
due partly to the lack of proper soil, but more probably to the
lack of any State control to prevent deforestation; from the way
trees grow in private gardens there seems no reason why the
country should not be well-wooded if given a proper chance.
(a) 1 drs and the Gulf Ports.
Ears is one of the largest of the provinces of Persia, and from Fare,
the British point of view almost the most important. It is
bounded on the south by the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, while on the west its
border marches with that of Arabistan. Starting from a few
miles north of Bandar Dilam, where Arabistan and the Liravi
district meet, the frontier follows the course of the Shur stream
w hich runs a few miles east of and parallel to the Hindlan river,
from the sea until it crosses the Hindlan near Deh Mulla. •
Going north the frontier then crosses the Bam Hormuz-Beh-
behan road between Jaizan and Kuraisheh and follows the Kuh-
galu-Bakhtiari tribal boundary until the Qashqai country ^
reached.
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The volume is entitled Military Report on Persia. Volume IV Part II. Fars, Gulf Ports, Yazd and Laristan. (Simla, Government of India Press, 1924). The volume was originally published in 1923.
The report contains sections on history, geography, population, climate and health, resources, military affairs, communications, and political matters. Appendices give the following information: sub-divisions of the Khamseh Arabs; sub-divisions of the Baseri; Baharlu sub-tribes; sub-divisions of the Qashqai; sub-divisions of the Mamassani; table of supplies and transport. There are also four maps (folios 100-103), entitled:
- Map accompanying Military Report on Persia Vol. IV. Part 2.
- Bushire
- The Khamseh Tribes
- Map to illustrate habitat & migrations of more important Clans (Tirehs) of Qashgai Tribes
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- 1 volume (102 folios)
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There is a table of contents on folio 6; and an index on folios 88-98.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 104; 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 volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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