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‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’ [33r] (70/366)
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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lamentations, which are obligatory on Shi’ahs during the month
of Muharram, and as refugees for destitute strangers and pil
grims, but also serving as inns. There are numerous khans in
Muhammarah, but these instead of being hostelries, as in
Iraq, are merely places of business, or warehouses, where mer
chants store their goods.
Of the various ingredients that form the population of
Muhammarah, the Bahrainis are mostly small shop-keepers
and mechanics ; the Sabians are silversmiths; the Jews deal in
Manchester goods ; and the Christians are clerks or lightermen.
There are also 6 gunsmiths, who repair rifles and revolvers, the
most prominent of these being Haji ’Abbas and rlaji Kadhin.
(d) Foreign Trade .—Details of foreign trade with Muham
marah are mentioned in Chapter IV, but owing to its functions
as a port its connec tion with foreign trade must not be omitted
here. Of the foreign trade nominally belonging to Muham
marah, by far the greater part really depends on places upon
the Karim and up-country. The town is accessible to ocean
going steamers, but owing to the narrowness of the Karim and
the consequent difficulty of swinging, they discharge their
cargoes opposite the village of Ma’muri without leaving the
Shatt-al-’Arab. Cargoes, etc., are transhipped at Muhammarah
to the river steamers and conveyed thus to Nasiri. Muham
marah is the port of supply for the whole province of’Arabistan
and to a very large extent the province of Isfahan and the
Bakhtiari country as regards imported goods ; it is also the port
of shipment of goods from the interior of Persia.
(e) Administration .—The town is nominally governed by
a deputy of the Shaikh, called the Naib-al-Hukumeh, though
that position is at present vacant owing to the incapability
of the last two deputy governors, who were removed by the
Shaikh, and the government is in the hands of the Rais-al-Tuj jar.
The Shaikh has a hoshiyah, or personal guard, of 120 ghulam,
whilst for the preservation of law and order in the town there
exists a police force of four officers and ninety men under ’Azi
Deen.
(/) Camping grounds .—There is ample space for camping
grounds in the desert behind and close to the town.
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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.
- Physical characteristics
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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:163v, 168r:168v, 171r:179v, back-i
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