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‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’ [9r] (22/366)
The record is made up of 1 volume (179 folios). It was created in 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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Nineveh, where he was treated kindly by the Assyrians and as a b. c
result withdrew his forces from the field.
The capture of Babylon by Assurbanipal, and the third 648 . ;
campaign against Elam. In this campaign Tammaritu, aided
by the Assyrians, re-entered Susa and was proclaimed king. He
foolishly attempted to massacre his allies but, the plot being
discovered, he was thrown into prison. The Assyrians, however,
not feeling strong enough to maintain their position unsup
ported, retired to Nineveh, laying the whole country waste.
Capture and sack of Susa. On this occasion the Assyrian 645.
army completely pillaged the city, violated the sanctuaries and
massacred her people. In the words of Ezekiel, as quoted by
Sir Percy Sykes, There is Elam and all her multitude round
about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword
Elam, as a Kingdom had disappeared. Elam in her earliest
da}^s was a predatory power, and so she remained throughout.
At the same time, writes Sir Percy Sykes, she developed, her own
system oi writing, her own art and to a certain extent her own
civilization. But she raided rather than subdued, and made
little serious attempt at empire ; and when she tried to organise
her empire, she signally failed. Brought face to face with
Assyria, when the intervening buffer states ha-d been subdued,
Elam fought heroically against superior organisation, forces and
equipment. Even so, thanks to her inaccessibility and valour,
she might well have survived Assyria but for her civil dissensions,
which again and again paralysed her arms at the most critical
juncture.
From this date Elam plays a very small part in the history of gqq.
Persia. About 600 B. C. Teispes, the son of Achaemenes, the
founder of t oe Persian monarchy, taking advantage of the de
fenceless position of Elam, occupied the district of Anshan and
rxssumed the title of ‘‘Great King, King of Anshan”. From
himstarted the double line of Achaemenian monarchs, the Anshan
and Persian, but in 546 B. C. Cyrus I, who three years previous 54 ^
had been termed King of Anshan, was referred to as King of
Persia, Elam and Persia thus being moulded in to one country
under the rule of the King of Persia.
On the accession of Darius we again hear of the revolt of 52 i.
Elam, but its rebel leader, Atrina, was not supported and being
taken prisoner was sent to Darius, who slew him w ith his own
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Confidential military report on Arabistan [Khūzestān] compiled by Air Headquarters, Iraq, and printed by the Government of India Press, 1924.
The report contains nine chapters (numbered I-IX) and seven appendices (A-G) as follows:
- chapter I – history (general, ancient, modern, political attitude);
- II – geography (boundaries, area, general description, altitude, mountains, rivers and fords, towns and villages, tracts of land, islands, fortified places, political divisions);
- III – climate (general, temperature, winds, rainfall, mirages, general medical and sanitary conditions, principal diseases, conditions affecting aviation and military operations);
- IV – economic resources (general, labour, agriculture, livestock, manufacture, power, commerce, customs, banking, revenue, tables of imports and exports);
- V – ethnography (general, population, races, religions, languages);
- VI – tribes (general, armed forces, tribes in relation to possible centres of disturbance, political attitudes, military considerations, tribal action, punitive measures, recapitulation, lists of tribes);
- VII – personalities;
- VIII – communications (general, communications by sea, inland waterways, railways, telegraphs and telephones, post, aerodromes and possible aerodromes, wireless and visual communication, principal routes by land, sea and river);
- IX – administration (general, government establishments, northern province, southern province);
- appendix A – bibliographical notes;
- B – weights and measures, coinage and time;
- C – glossary of topographical terms;
- D – Karun river [Rūd-e Kārūn] regulations;
- E – concession granted to the “Nasiri Company”;
- F – customs schedule;
- G – Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
The volume contains a single map in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folio 180).
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- 1 volume (179 folios)
- Arrangement
A contents list (ff 4-5) and index (ff 171-177) reference the report’s 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 181; 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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