IOR/L/MIL/17/15/16

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, genera 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).