File 3156/1918 Pt 4 ‘MESOPOTAMIA: ADMINISTRATION- PUBLICATION OF A BLUE BOOK’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- File 3156/1918 Pt 4 ‘MESOPOTAMIA: ADMINISTRATION- PUBLICATION OF A BLUE BOOK’
- Date:
- 1919/1921
- Description:
- Abstract: The volume contains correspondence in the form of telegrams, minutes, reviews and printed reports related to the civil administration of Mesopotamia [Iraq]. The volume includes the following reviews and reports:A ‘REVIEW OF THE CIVIL ADMINITSRATION OF THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES OF AL ‘IRAQ 1914---1918’, Compiled in the Office of the Civil Commissioner, Baghdad, November, 1918. The review contains the following headings: ‘Al ‘Iraq under Turkish Rule and prior to the Advance to Baghdad’, ‘The Advance to Baghdad and After’, and ‘General Review of the Civil Administration’ (folios 224-266)A Report on Education in Mosul (folios 222-223)Department of Education monthly report issued by the Office of the Civil Commissioner, Baghdad, May 1919 (folios 215-221)Two drafts of the first five chapters of the review prepared by Miss Gertrude Bell (folios 118-146, and 157-185), with suggested edits and the question of presenting them to the Parliament.The volume also includes a complete copy of the ‘REVIEW OF THE CIVIL ADMINISTRATION OF MESOPOTAMIA’, prepared by Bell under the direction of the Office of the Civil Commissioner in Baghdad, and published by His Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO), December 1920 (folios 8-83). The review is an account of the British military occupation of Mesopotamia, and the establishment of an Arab Government. It contains a table of contents listing the following chapters:‘I. - Occupation of the Basrah [Basra] Wilayat’‘II. - Organisation of the Administration’‘III. - The pacification of the Tribes and Relations with the Shi’ah [Shia] towns up to the fall of Baghdad’‘IV. - Relations with Arab and Kurdish Tribes, and with the Holy Cities after the fall of Baghdad’‘V. - The Occupation of Mosul’‘VI. - The Kurdish Question’‘VII. - Development of Administration. The Revenue Department’‘VIII. - Judicial Administration’‘IX. - Organisation of the Education Department, Levies and Police, Civil Medical Service, Department of Commerce and Industry, Public Works, Railways, Finance, and Establishment’‘X. - The National Movement’‘Index’.Correspondents in the volume include: the Acting Civil Commissioner, Baghdad; the Education Department of Mesopotamia; the Under-Secretary of State for India; the Foreign Office; the Secretary to the Government of India; the Secretary of State; and the War Office.The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 266; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Kurds
Military occupation
Education
Government of the Ottoman Empire - Geographic region:
- Mesopotamia
- Rights:
- رخصة المشاع الإبداعي لأغراض غير تجارية
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000419.0x000286_ar
81055/vdc_100000000419.0x000286_en
IOR/L/PS/10/752
IOR/L/PS/10/752