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‘Military report on south-west Persia, including the provinces of Khúzistán (Arabistan), Luristán and part of Fars.’ [‎35v] (75/470)

The record is made up of 1 volume (231 folios). It was created in 1885. 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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48
See page 39, where the estimated population is 218,000.
own circles of villages and interfered with by the Central Persian Govern
ment very much in proportion to their several means of resistance. They
are subordinate to the Government of Bushire. Of the settlements, three-
fourths are probably Persian and one-fourth Arab.
As a general rule the Arab circles of villages are farmed and adminis
tered by their own Shaikhs, who arrange their own civil disputes, and pay
a lump sum as revenue per annum. They are coming every year more under
the local officers of the Shah.
The Persian circle of villages or a Persian port comes directly under the
local officers of the Shah.
Subdivision of Khuzistdn.
Shustar and Dizful are under their own Chiefs {see Revised Gazetteer of
Persia ).
They, together with the districts of Ahwaz, Ram-Hormuz, and Muham-
merah, and the Hawizah, with its independent tribes, form
Arabistan. ^| ie 0 f Arabistanor land of Arabs, formerly ruled
by a Wall, who ranked as an independent prince.
The province pays a tribute of about 1,50,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. . In 1878-79 it
amounted to 1,37,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. raised as below. The Diwan goes to Tehran,
the Pishkash to the Prince Governor A Prince of the Royal line who also acted as Governor of a large Iranian province during the Qājār period (1794-1925). [Official Report) :—
District.
Estimated
population.
Revenue.
Tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. .
Tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. .
Muhammerah
45,000
Diwin
Pishkash
... 23.000 1
... 10.000 i
33,000
Felahiyah
30,000
Diwan
Pishkash
... 16,000 )
6,000 )
22,000
Ramis (Ram-Hormuz)
7,000
Diwan
Pishkash
;;; ;;; ) 9,oo 0
9,000
Shustar ...
22,000
Diwan
Pishkash
8,000 \
••• 14,000 5
22,000
Dizful with Kathir
Arabs.
30,OCX)
Diwan
Pishkash
24,000 )
6,000 )
••• •
30,000
Hawizah
33,000
Diwan
Pisbkash
... 14,000 •)
... 7,000)
21,000
Total
1,67,000
Toman 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
1,37,000

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Report marked strictly confidential, prepared in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General’s Department in India, by the Assistant Quarter Master General, Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Sever Bell, Royal Engineers. The volume was published by the Government Central Branch Press, Simla, 1885.

The contents of the volume are as follows:

  • part I, a narrative description of a journey from India to Muhammerah [Khorramshahr], through to the Luristán [Lorestān] hills, to Kúm [Qom]; from Kúm to Gulpaigán [Golpāyegān ], Chaman-i-Sultán [Chaman Solţān], Ali-Gúdar [Alīgūdarz], Imámzádá-Ishmail [Emāmzādeh Esmā‘īl], and the Zaindarúd River [Zāyandeh Rūd] to Isfahán; from Isfahán through the Kúhgehlú [Kohgīlūyeh] hills to Behbahán and Bandar-Dilám [Bandar-e Deylam]; from Bandar-Dilám to Bushire
  • part II, a detailed account of southwest Persia, compiled from Sever’s own observations and other available sources
  • part III, commercial considerations. A further section in this chapter on strategic observations, which is mentioned on the contents page and marked as secret, is not present in the volume
  • part IV, detailed road reports
  • appendix A, road reports, Isfahan to Shústar [Shūshtar], Shústar to Shíráz [Shīrāz], compiled in 1881 by Captain Henry Lake Wells, Assistant Director of Persian Telegraphs, with additional annotations by Bell
  • appendix B, a list of plant specimens collected in Luristán during April and May 1884
  • appendix C, extracts of a paper on the geology of the Turko-Persian frontier, written by William Kennett Loftus, June 1854
  • appendix D, meteorological observations at Bushire, from 20 March to 20 June 1885

The volume includes eight maps, two photographic plates, and illustrations throughout (topographical, architectural, anthropological). The two photographic plates and some of the maps are of an earlier date than the volume’s publication date of 1885.

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1 volume (231 folios)
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A contents page (f 7) and index (ff 222-226) refer to the volume’s original printed pagination.

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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 233; 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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