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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [522v] (1057/1814)
The record is made up of 2 volumes with inserts (898 folios). It was created in 1892-1924. It was written in English, Urdu and German. 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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ill a bleak desert. Already, since leaving Snrmek, we have risen
500 feet; but a further climb of 700 is necessary before we arrive
at our next halting-place, which is the highest point on the route
between Isfahan and Shiraz. Very desolate and unattractive is
this belt of country ; nor is Dehbid (lit. Village of the Willow),
the place of which I speak, situated m its least unattractive
portion. In the middle of a bleak upland plain, surrounded by
a network of small watercourses, are seen the post-house,
telegraph-station, and one or two huts that constitute the sum
total of Dehbid. There is no village, and there are no willows.
An artificial mound of earth is attributed by MacGregor to the
era of the Fire Worshippers in Persia, and in the first half of the
present century was called by the natives Gumbaz-i-Bahur, and
explained by them as the site of one of the eight shooting-boxes
of Bahrain Gur. Dehbid is 7,500 feet above the sea, and though
healthy enough from its bracing atmosphere, is considered one of
the coldest inhabited places in Persia. A few days before my
arrival the thermometer had registered twenty degrees of frost;
but a change in the weather had fortunately occurred ; and I
found travelling very pleasant. The rolling hills and upland
plains round Dehbid are the haunts of the Kashkais and other
nomad tribes of Pars, who pass to and fro, at regular seasons of
the year, driving their flocks to the highlands in the spring, grazing
as they go, exchanging milk for bread, and thieving wherever they
get the chance. I shall have something more to say about them
at the close of this chapter.
On leaving Dehbid the track continues to wind over the hills,
until, at about the fourteenth mile, it crosses a stream by a very
high-backed bridge of five arches, built by a recent
Murghab Q- overno / 0 f ;p ars . Close to this is the large ruined
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
of Khaneh Kurgan, originally built by Kerim Khan
Vekil. The stream is the upper part of the Polvar Elver, which
from this point is almost continually with us, watering successively
the plains of Murghab, Hajiabad, and Mervdasht or Persepolis,
until it flows into the Kur or Bund-Amir, at the Pul-i-Khan.
Following the valley down for a short distance the track then
turns abruptly to the right, and climbs a big range of hills by a
steep and very stony path. A succession of desolate valleys and
ridges follow, until the source of a stream is reached that presently
irrigates the villages of Kadarabad and Murghab. Gushing out
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These two volumes are George Curzon's own personal annotated copies of both volumes of his book Persia and the Persian Question , which was published in 1892. Alongside the volumes are various loose papers relating to Persia [Iran], consisting of the following: received correspondence; newspaper cuttings; publishers' press releases; cuttings from various booksellers' catalogues; various journal and magazine articles; two items of printed official British correspondence; several prints of photographs and sketches; and a few handwritten notes by Curzon.
In most cases these papers, which range in date from 1892 to 1924, relate to the chapters in the book where they were originally inserted, suggesting that they were kept by Curzon with the intention of using them to inform a revised edition of the book.
Of particular note among the small amount of correspondence are two letters received by Curzon in 1914 and 1915 from retired schoolmaster and Islamic scholar Sayyid Mazhar Hasan Musawi of Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India (ff 5-9 and ff 44-53). These letters, which are written in Urdu and are accompanied by English translations, discuss in detail several inaccuracies found in the Urdu version of Persia and the Persian Question .
The various prints of photographs and sketches, which were originally inserted into volume two, are of different locations in the Gulf region. Several of these appear to have been produced in preparation for the publication of the second volume of John Gordon Lorimer's Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Oman and Central Arabia (i.e. the 'Geographical and Statistical' section) in 1908, as they are identical to the versions found in that volume.
Also of note among the loose papers are an illustrated article from Country Life dated 5 June 1920, entitled 'The People of Persia' (ff 36-37), and a printed family tree of the Shah of Persia [Aḥmad Shah Qājār], produced in preparation of his visit to Britain in 1919 (f 233).
Volume one of Persia and the Persian Question contains a map of Persia, Afghanistan and Beluchistan [Balochistan], which is folded inside the front cover (f 1).
The German language material consists of a publisher's press release for two books authored by German archaeologist Ernst Emil Herzfeld (ff 29-30).
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- 2 volumes with inserts (898 folios)
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Foliation: this shelfmark consists of two physical volumes. The foliation sequence commences at the first folio of volume one (1-463), and terminates at the last folio of volume two (ff 464-898); these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Each volume contains a large number of loose leaves, which have been foliated in the order that they were inserted into the volume; for conservation reasons, these loose folios have been removed from the volume and stored separately. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers of the two volumes.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- Mss Eur F111/33
- Title
- Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Questionby George Curzon, with Inserted Papers
- Pages
- 54r:135v, 147r:149v, 158r:180v, 183r:221v, 224r:224v, 227r:246v, 248r:257v, 259r:260v, 268r:362v, 364r:364v, 367r:388v, 390r:400v, 402r:416v, 419r:432v, 434r:444v, 448r:462v, 464r:471v, 475r:481v, 483r:513v, 516r:525v, 527r:544v, 546r:563v, 566r:598v, 600r:622v, 624r:656v, 658r:665v, 667r:675v, 678r:684v, 687r:688v, 691r:691v, 693r:693v, 695r:708v, 711r:721v, 724r:726v, 728r:729v, 731r:736v, 742r:742v, 746r:757v, 759r:761v, 763r:763v, 765r:765v, 772r:777v, 780r:789v, 793r:794v, 797r:809v, 811r:821v, 825r:840v, 843r:898v
- Author
- Curzon, George Nathaniel, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
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