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‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’ [95r] (194/366)
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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MUHAISIN.
A settled tribe of Southern ’Arabistan, whose Chief is the
Shaikh of Muhammarah. Part live in Persian territory and
part in ’Iraq on the banks of the Shatt al ’Arab, where they are
occupied in the cultivation of dates. The whole tribe would
undoubtedly follow the Shaikh of Muhammarah, though their
peaceful mode of living is gradually depriving them of the wild,
restless spirit so characteristic of the Arab tribe and it is doubt
ful if their support would be of great assistance to the Shaikh, if
opposed to tribes who live by the sword or to an organised
European force.
The tribe is said to be descended from a certain man, Muhaisin,
and his son-in-law Kasib. These individuals, according to
tradition, belong to a tribe of the Muhammarah district which
was compelled to emigrate by the encroachments of the Cha’b
and settled on the Tigris under the name of Al Hussain
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
.
Kasib and Muhaisin with some followers, having purchased
some land in the neighbourhood of the modern Muhamnfarah
from the Cha’b, eventually returned to settle near the original
seat of the tribe, and the headship of the tribe which they
founded remained in the family of Kasib.
Haji Yusuf ibn Mardau, a descendant of Kasib, ultimately
became Governor of Muhammarah on behalf of the Cha’b
Shaikh and his son. Haji Jabir was Shaikh of Muhammarah
when it was occupied by British troops in 1857. After the
peace between Britain and Persia, Haji Jabir was made inde
pendent of the Cha’b Shaikh by a Persian Prince, the Ihtisham-
ud-Dauleh, who governed the province; and after the Cha’b
Shaikh had been captured and sent to Teheran, the Fallahiyah
district was added to Haji Jabir’s dominions. Constant fighting
ensued between the Muhaisin and the Cha’b, in which the Dris
section of the Cha’b inhabiting the island of ’Abadan sided with
the Muhaisin.
In 1860 Zia-ul-Mulk, the Persian Governor of ’Arabistan,
countenanced the Cha’b party, and the result was the seizure
and temporary removal of Haji Jabir to Teheran ; two years
later, however, having been released, he was reinstated with the
title of JSTusrat-al-Mulk by Prince Farshad Mirza, the new
Persian Governor. From this time onwards the Cha’b Shaikhs
have never been entirely free of Muhaisin control. Haji Jabir
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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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