IOR/L/PS/20/C108

The volume is Lieutenant A T Wilson, IA, Acting Consul for Arabistan, A Précis of the Relations of the British Government with the Tribes and Shaikhs of Arabistan (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1912).

The volume is a compilation of historical, economic and political information about Arabistan [Khuzestan] and its relations with the British, by Lieutenant Arnold Talbot Wilson, Indian Army, Acting Consul for Arabistan.

The contents of the volume are as follows:

• List of Officials in Arabistan;
• I British Interests in Arabistan, 1635-1800;
• II Arabistan - Internal Politics up to the death of Haji Jabir and genealogical table of Shaikhs of Mohammerah [Khorramshahr], 1527-1881;
• III Shaikh Miz'al's Rule, 1882-1897;
• IV Shaikh Khaz'al's Rule, 1897-1910;
• V Shaikh Khaz'al and the Persian Customs;
• VI Shaikh Khaz'al - Political Relations with British Government;
• VII Piracies;
• VIII Turko-Persian Frontier Question;
• IX Shaikh of Mohammerah and Turks;
• X Irrigation in Arabistan (I Karun; II Karkhah; III Dizful);
• XI Acquisition and Tenure of Land in Arabistan, with Annexes;
• Sixteen appendices, numbered I-XVI (supplemented with a later additional appendix, IXa) each containing a transcription (one in French, others translated into English from Persian) of relevant firmans, agreements, concessions, and other documents from the period 1844-1910.