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‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’ [53v] (111/366)
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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96
CHAPTER VI.
Tribes.
General. ’Arabistan is a country to which tribes have migrated from
Central Arabia, ’Iraq and Luristan in search of land on wmch
they will be able to cultivate or graze their cattle. With the
exception perhaps of the Lurs all recognise the Shaikh of Muham-
marah as their immediate overlord, but this does not necessa
rily imply that these tribes, as a collective body, would create
at any time a combined fighting force prepared to follow the
Shaikh. In actual fact it is far otherwise, the Shaikh’s control
over them in peace time being due to his power to grant or seize
land, his strong method of administration, by which he breaks
the influence of any shaikh, who with his tribe may become a
menace to himself, and the support given to him by the British
Government. With this power behind him the tribes are al
most bound to submit to his authority, but this submission is
made with no good grace, and certain tribes, more especially
in the districts north of Hawizah between the Karkhe h and the
’Iraq boundary, are ever ready to turn their backs on the Shaikh,
if by so doing they themselves will be benefited. As regards
the Lurs they are more liable to stand in the way of rather than
assist in any attempt on the part of the Shaikh to create co
hesion among the tribes.
The tribes of the province are of three varieties nomadic,
semi-nomadic and sedentary. The sedentary as the nama
implies dwelling in the more fertile valleys and on the river
banks live in villages and practice agricultural and pastoral
farming. The semi-nomadic groups inhabit villages and tents,
part cultivating and part owning large flocks of sheep and
goats. The nomads, all of whom are Lurs, dwell in tents all the
year round, own large flocks of sheep, goats and horses but no
land. They move into the plains of ’Arabistan in the autumn
and return to the hills in early summer.
Armed forces. The question of armed forces must be considered under two
separate headings, viz., Arabs and Kurs.
Arabs .—Numbers are at all times difficult to estimate, whea
dealing with tribes of Arabia, Persia and other eastern countries,
where the system of a census is unknown and a native is even
unable to reckon his own age. The number of male Arabs ia
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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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