'Persia and the Persian Question by the Hon. George Nathaniel Curzon, M.P.' [269] (340/748)
The record is made up of 1 volume (369 folios). It was created in 1892. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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THE SOUTH-WESTEEN PEOVINCES 26^
winter), and yeilak (from yil, i.e. year), are Turkish words em
ployed for the tribal haunts at the two periods. The Persian
words garmsir (warm region) and sardsir (cold region) cover a
similar application. At the division of the seasons the nomads
may be encountered upon the march, their black goats'-hair tents,
as easily pitched as struck, dotting the slopes, and thousands of
sheep and goats heralding or encumbering the column. Even
at other times in almost every province of Persia, but particularly
in those which I now approach, the traveller off the beaten track
will alight upon their encampments, and may study in nineteenth
century duplicate the pastoral economy of the books of Genesis or
Job.
A perusal of the pages of this work will have shown that the
population of Persia is in no sense of a homogeneous description.
Foreign Placed as her territories have been in the track of
elements armies, they have been repeatedly overrun, and at times
held in long-enduring pawn. As the human tide has ebbed and
flowed, it has deposited large portions of its burden upon Persian
soil; and the mere spectacle of a country, owning an Iranian
majority among its people, an Arabian religion, and a Turkish
ruling dynasty, is enough to indicate a history of storm. It is
from the foreign elements thus imported into Persia, and there, so
to speak, precipitated and left, that the nomad portion of her
present population is chiefly, though not wholly, derived.
Eoughly speaking, the tribes of Persia 1 are susceptible of a
fourfold classification—Turks (i.e. offshoots of the great Turki or
Tribes of Turkoman or Tartar stock, not to be confused with the-
Persia Osmanli branch of the same root) ; Arabs, Beluchis, and
a great nameless class, sometimes described as Leks, by those who
defend their common Iranian origin, more commonly known by the
names of their various constituent elements, the principal of which
are the Kurds and Lurs, with the Feilis, Bakhtiaris, Mamasennis,
etc., as sub-divisions of the latter title. In a greater or less
1 Of the few existing accounts of the tribes of Persia, I can only cite the
following as in the least satisfactory: Sir J. Malcolm (1800-10), ITistori/, vol. ii*
cap. xxiii.; M. Jouannin in Dupr^'s Voyage en Perse (1808) ; J. P. Morier (1814-
15), Journal of the R.Gr.S., vol. vii. pp. 230-42 ; C. Hitter (1838-40), Die Erdhmde
ran Asien, vol. vi.; Sir J. Sheil (1840-50), Note to Lady Shell's Glimpses of Life;
Comte J. de Kochechouart (1865), Souvenirs, cap. iv.; and F. Spiegel, Eranisohe
AltertJivmshmde, vol. i. Ritter's is the most comprehensive account, and corre
sponds more nearly than the others to the status quo.
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The volume is Volume II of George Nathaniel Curzon, Persia and the Persian Question , 2 vols (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1892).
The volume contains illustrations and six maps.
The chapter headings are as follows:
- XIX From Teheran to Isfahan
- XX From Isfahan to Shiraz
- XXI Persepolis, and Other Ruins
- XXII From Shiraz to Bushire
- XXIII The Eastern and South-Eastern Provinces
- XXIV The South-Western Provinces
- XXV The Karun River
- XXVI The Navy
- XXVII The Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
- XXVIII Revenue, Resources, and Manufactures
- XXIX Commerce and Trade (Part I History of Perso-European Trade; Part II The Modern Trade of Persia)
- XXX British and Russian Policy in Persia.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (369 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is divided into chapters. There is a list of contents between ff. 351-353, followed by a list of illustrations, f. 354. There is an index to this volume and Volume I (IOR/L/PS/C43/1) between ff. 707-716.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 350 on the first folio bearing text and terminates at 716 (the last folio bearing text). The numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and appear in the top right-hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. There is also an original printed pagination sequence. This runs from vi-xii (ff. 351-354) and 2-653 (ff. 355-716).
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- IOR/L/PS/20/C43/2
- Title
- 'Persia and the Persian Question by the Hon. George Nathaniel Curzon, M.P.'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:12, 1:2, 2a:2b, 3:8, 8a:8b, 9:18, 18a:18b, 19:26, 26a:26b, 27:28, 28a:28b, 29:32, 32a:32b, 33:40, 40a:40b, 41:50, 50a:50b, 51:54, 54a:54b, 55:60, 60a:60b, 61:66, 66a:66b, 67:92, 92a:92b, 93:94, 94a:94b, 95:120, 120a:120b, 121:150, 150a:150b, 151:152, 152a:152b, 153:154, 154a:154b, 155:158, 158a:158b, 159:160, 160a:160b, 161:166, 166a:166b, 167:176, 176a:176b, 177:198, 198a:198b, 199:202, 202a:202b, 203:212, 212a:212b, 213:214, 214a:214b, 215:278, 278a:278b, 279:280, 280a:280b, 281:284, 284a:284b, 285:296, 296a:296b, 297:300, 300a:300b, 301:316, 316a:316b, 317:326, 326a:326b, 327:330, 330a:330b, 331:344, 344a:344b, 345:374, 374a:374b, 375:654, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
- Author
- Curzon, George Nathaniel, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
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