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‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’ [34v] (73/366)
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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in appearance. Half of them are Bandaris or Bandarieh, whose
origin is unknown even to themselves, though it is possible
that they are connected with the Bandariyah section of the
Cha’b tribe, and the remainder are Qanawatis from Behbehan.
The entire community is bi-lingual speaking both Arabic and
Persian.
(d) Administration .—The town is controlled by the Shaikh
of Muhammarah, whose influence at Ma shur is supreiaae. and
undisputed, through his agent Haji Rashid ibn Haji Rais-al-
Tujjar, who also controls Hindian.
There is no telegraph office, but a post office exists which is
managed by the Customs and maintains a weekly service to
Muhammarah, Hindian and Bushire.
Villages.
General .—The above are the principal towns of the districts
in ’Arabistan. A few of the more important villages are record
ed below, but the remainder which are so numerous that there
is no space for them in this report are to be found in the Gaze-
teer of Persia. These villages are merely the habitats of the
sections and parts of sections of the tribes, as detailed in Chap
ter VI, and are of little or no military importance. It may
however be worthy of mention here that all villages, no matter
how small, in Northern ’Arabistan are guarded by a fort built
in their midst.
(1) BAND-I-QIR. Lat. 31° 39'. Long. 44° 55'. Elev. 300'?
. A small village situated at the southern apex of the Mianab
between the Gargar and the Shatait branches of the Karun, just
above their junction. The river .Diz also joins the Karun here.
It contains some 40 mud houses and its inhabitants are ’Ana-
fijah, who cultivate wheat and barley and own a few mules and
donkeys. Immediately below the village stand the barracks
used by British troops during the war, whilst a few hundred
yards upstream of the village exists the bridge (mentioned
earlier in this chapter under the heading bridges).
The banks here which stand about 18 feet above the Gargar
at low water, are overflowed in floods.
The name Band-i-Qir is derived from a dyke, whose stones
were fastened together by < qir , 5 i.e., bitumen. This dyke is
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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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