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IOR/L/PS/20/C143
- Record Id:
- 040-000564588
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000564257
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000884.0x000181
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100180421745.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/20/C143
- Title:
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‘PERSONALITIES - ‘IRAQ’
- Scope & Content:
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The volume is entitled Personalities, ‘Iraq, and is a British intelligence report, compiled around 1917 by the Arab Bureau, Basrah [Basra] Branch, on prominent individuals in Iraq at that time (the Arab Bureau was a section of the Cairo Intelligence Department established in 1916). The report was printed by the Superintendent Government Printing, India, Delhi. The information included about each individual varies in length and detail, but can include:
- Current location
- Political and religious beliefs
- Interactions with the British military and wartime administration
- Ethnicity and tribal affiliations
- Age, appearance, and personality
- Family, friends, and enemies
- Employment
- Military connections.
Entries often include either favourable assessments or derogatory comments on character, capabilities and physical appearance.
The volume includes a copy of a telegram (folio 32) from General Headquarters, Baghdad, to the War Office, dated 20 July 1920, which was inserted at an unknown date. The telegram contains updated information on a particular individual included in the report.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000564257
037-000564506
040-000564588 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/20 : Political and Secret Department Library
IOR/L/PS/20/C : Political and Secret Department Library: 'C' Books
IOR/L/PS/20/C143 : ‘PERSONALITIES - ‘IRAQ’ - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0020]/036-000564257[0003]/037-000564506[0065]/040-000564588
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume (51 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000884.0x000181
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1912
- End Date:
- 1922
- Date Range:
- c 1917
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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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 53; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Pagination: an original printed pagination sequence is also present at ff 4-51.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)