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'MILITARY REPORT ON PERSIA. VOLUME IV, PART I.' [39v] (83/168)
The record is made up of 1 volume (80 folios). It was created in 1922-1923. 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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70
r (e) Bandar Abbas .—The population of Bandar Abbas is
about 12,000 souls, but in the summer is not much more
than one quarter of that number, the majority of the re
mainder goin£ away to the Minab district, where there are
extensive date plantations and the climate is somewhat
better than that of Bandar Abbas. The inhabitants are a
hybrid race of mixed Persian Baluchi, Arab and negro
descent and are known as Abbdsis. They are a poor spirited
people who lack even the necessary courage to defend their
own houses and property. A few years ago, when a raid
by tribesmen from the interior was threatened, the people
of the town collected all the available vessels they could lay
hands on and as many as possible put to sea until the
danger was averted.
There are about MO Shikarpur Hindus, British Indian
subjects, here, in whose hands is about three quarters of
the trade of the port, and a small Khojah community.
The official language is Persian, but the bulk of the inhabit
ants speak a patois almost unintelligible except to them
selves. Plenty of individuals however in the town have a
working knowledge of Hindustani and would be available
as interpreters.
The inhabitants of Balban number about 8,000 persons.
They are all Baluchis, chiefly of the Rais and Hot tribes.
In religion they are Sunnis, and are not in any degree
Persianised. They are extremely poor, ignorant and
uncivilised. Almost all of them live in date leaf huts, and
there is hardly a dwelling of any other kind in the district.
The following are some of the chief tribes to be found
around Sirjan, Bam and Narmashlr:—
Sirjan, Afshars .—Mostly nomadic, liring more especially
in Aqta and Khabr. They number about 2,000 tents, but
are not much use as fighting men. Friendly to the
Buchaqchls.
Doragdhis .—Chiefly engaged in trade and friendly to the
British. 1 hey number about 2,000 tents, and live astride
the road between Saidabad and the Tang-i-Zagh.
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The volume is entitled Military Report on Persia. Volume IV Part I. Persian Baluchistan, Kerman and Bandar Abbas. (Simla, Government Central Press, 1923). The volume was originally published in 1921.
The report contains sections on history, geography, population, climate and health, resources, military affairs, communications, and political matters. Appendices give the following information: details of nomad tribes of Kerman Province; a list of Chiefs and Headmen in Persian Baluchistan, who are in receipt of subsidies from the Indo-European Telegraph Department (IETD); statistics of natural resources; and distribution statement of the Sarhad Levy Corps on 1 July 1922. There are also seven maps (folios 75-81), entitled:
- Map accompanying Military Report on Persia Vol. IV Part I.
- Kerman and environs
- Bandar Abbas
- Diagram of Mirjawa station yard
- Diagram of Duzdap station yard
- Signalling and heliograph posts between Chahbar and Geh
- Sketch Map shewing communications between Kerman and Saidabad
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (80 folios)
- Arrangement
Includes a list of contents on folio 4; and an index on folios 67-73.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 82; 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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- 'MILITARY REPORT ON PERSIA. VOLUME IV, PART I.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:74v, 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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