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‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’ [48r] (100/366)
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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85
’Iraq (’Amarah)
Khurramabad
.. Pomegranate pulp, Jaft, wasma, djre
(rounias), combs, saddlery, ruga,
numnads.
.. Loaf sugar chiefly, dates, kerosine oil, tea,
iron shoes and nails, cows and buffalo*
skins.
The two most important Customs houses are at Muham- Custeaia,
marah, situated at the mouth of the Karan on its right bank, and
at Nasiri on the left bank of the river immediately alongside the
wharves. Nasiri with its rapidly increasing trade owns probably
the most important Customs house, which examines goods
arriving from all quarters. There are also Customs houses at
both Dizful and Shushtar, but, and particularly in %he case of
Shushtar, little or no work is done by these departments owing to
all goods being declared at Nasiri. In April 1922 an official was
appointed by the Persian Government at Ram Hormuz ; for some
months the inhabitants refused to recognise him, but his position
is now established. The Customs Department, as in the whole of
Persia, is under the control of Belgian officials with Persian sub
ordinates. For the present Customs tariff, vide Appendix at the
end of report.
Smuggling is not uncommon in ’Arabistan, the chief articles
which are smuggled, being rifles, ammunition and krans. Pos
sibly Hawizah is better acquainted with this art than any other
place in the province, though a certain amount of rifle smuggling
is carried on from the smaller ports on the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.
The banking business of ’Arabistan is chiefly carried on Bankiag.
through the branches of the Imperial Bank of Persia at
Muhammarah, Ahwaz and Shushtar. There is also a small
amount of banking done through native bankers or Saraffs.
The inhabitants of ’Arabistan are not usually in favour of
depositing sums of money with European Banks in Current
Deposit Account or with the native Saraffs. This is probably
due to the inherent instinct of Asiatics for hoarding and also to
a large extent to the continually unsettled political state of this
part of the world.
The Foreign Exchange business in cover of Foreign Trade is
practically all done through the Imperial Bank of Persia as also
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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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