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IOR/L/MIL/17/15/8
- Record Id:
- 040-000799020
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 037-000799011
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x00012e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100040904724.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/MIL/17/15/8
- Title:
- ‘Military Report on Southern Persia’
- Scope & Content:
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Confidential military report compiled in the Intelligence Branch, Department of the Quarter Master General of India, by Captain George Samuel Frederick Napier, 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire Light Infantry, Staff Captain. The report was printed in Simla at the Government Central Printing Office, 1900.
The volume begins with a preface, written by Lieutenant-Colonel A Barrow, Assistant Quartermaster General, Intelligence Branch, Simla, on 12 April 1900 (folio 8).
Part one of the volume comprises ten chapters (I-X) covering:
- geography (general description, coastline, land frontiers, mountain systems, rivers and lakes)
- harbours
- communications (roads, maritime, inland water, and telegraphs)
- climate (general description, rainfall, winds in the Persian Gulf, pathology of Southern Persia)
- resources (agricultural, commercial, industrial, labour, production, animals, and transport)
- ethnography (races and religions, and languages)
- history (early history, Russo-Persian wars, Anglo-Persian wars up to 1856, the Anglo-Persian War of 1856-57, the subsequent history of Southern Persia, and commercial history)
- administration (systems, administrative divisions, financial system, money, weights and measures)
- naval and military (navy, army, fighting material, and arms)
- political (internal and external relations, British representatives in Southern Persia, and representatives of other powers in Southern Persia)
Part two of the volume comprises four appendices (A-D) covering:
- climate (an abstract of Fahrenheit thermometer readings)
- resources (bazaar prices, average rates of transport, rates of freight, pack transport rates, labour, animal and crop resources in some of Southern Persia’s principal towns and villages);
- ethnography (list of the principal tribes of Arabistan, and lists of tribes of other regions)
- a ‘gazetteer of some of the more important towns and villages of Southern Persia, on or near lines of communication’
Four maps are also included in the volume’s front pocket (folios 2-5).
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000256868
036-000788810
037-000799011
038-000799012
040-000799020 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/MIL : Records of the Military Department
IOR/L/MIL/17 : Military Department Library
IOR/L/MIL/17/15 : Iran, Iraq, Persian Gulf
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/1-40 : Iran
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/8 : ‘Military Report on Southern Persia’ - Contains:
- IOR/L/MIL/17/15/8, f 2 : ‘Sketch Survey Karun River Muhammera to Ahwaz by Lieut. W. B. Huddleston, R.I.M. November 1899’
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/8, f 3 : ‘Sketch Survey Karun River Ahwaz to Shustar, By Lieut. W. B. Huddleston, R.I.M. November 1899.’
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/8, f 4 : ‘Map showing possible Lines of Advance from the North, on Kain and Sistan.’
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/8, f 5 : ‘Sketch Map of Southern Persia showing the main Trade Routes and the relative Positions of the Nomad Tribes.’
Click here to View / search full list of parts of IOR/L/MIL/17/15/8 - Hierarchy:
- 032-000256868[0017]/036-000788810[0015]/037-000799011[0001]/038-000799012[0008]/040-000799020
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/MIL
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume (73 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x00012e
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1900
- End Date:
- 1900
- Date Range:
- 1900
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- 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 75; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
- Former External References:
- P 26
P.2/S.A. No. 38 - Arrangement:
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There is a contents page at the front of the volume (ff 9-10), and an alphabetical cross index of roads (ff 10-13). Both refer to the volume’s original pagination, with the cross index referring specifically to content in the section on roads under chapter II, Communications (ff 22-30).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- map no. 4 missing