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‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’ [17r] (38/366)
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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intersected with nullahs and more liable to surprise from raid-
ins. tribes.
There are innumerable rivers and canals in ’Arabistan, but other riy#rs.
with the exception of the Bahmanshir, which in its lower reaches
nearest the Gulf is navigable for boats of certain low drafts,
none are navigable and therefore of little or no military impor
tance. Of the more important of these rivers a short account
is given in this report; for fuller details vide Gazetteer of Persia,
Volume HI.
(1) Karicheh. — (a) General Description.
The Karkheh, though not navigable, in one of the most
important rivers of Western Persia. From the junction of the
Ab-i-Zal with the Gamasil, Kara Su and Saimarreh at a point
some 30 miles north-north-west of Dizful the river formed by
these streams is first known as the Karkheh. At 40 miles of its
course it enters the plains of ’Arabistan, about 15 miles to the
west of the Ab-i-Diz.
Near its exit from the hills the river passes the Pa-i-Pul,
where it was formerly spanned by a bridge and about 4 miles
south-west of Pa-i-Pul, to the right of the river and half a mile
away from it are the Sassanian ruins of Aivan-i-Kasrah or
Asiran-i-Karkheh. Here the river flows in several arms divid
ed by low islands. Being little below the level of the adjacent
countrv it is immediately available ror irrigation, and a number
of canals diverge from its left bank and water the lands of the
Sagwand Lurs. Leaving Shush at 56 miles and some distance
from its left bank, the Karkheh pursues its course with number
less windings in a general south-south-east or south by east
direction to a place at 120 miles and about 25 miles west of
Band-i-Qir, where it winds suddenly to the south-west and so
runs for about 20 miles, passing in this stage between the hills
which form the north-eastern boundary of the Hawizah district
and the low range which forms their prolongation and crosses
the Karun river at Ahwaz. At the end of this reach, approxi
mately 150 miles, the Karkheh reaches Nahr Hashim in the
Hawizah district, the site formerly of a massive dam by which
the whole irrigation of the district was regulated. When this
dam was in existence the farther course of the river lay first
southwards and then through Hawizah towm; but since the
dam gave way in 1837, the main stream of the river has taken
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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).
- Extent and format
- 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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