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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [736r] (1488/1814)
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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appearing in the columns both of export and import, render the
total returns an imperfect basis of generalisation as to the true
volume of trade. The customs, which in 1874 were valued at
6,500
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10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
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10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
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revenues of the surrounding district were let in 1889-90 for 8,000
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
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Lingah, like most Persian towns, contains a larger population
than its external appearance suggests. The figures were given to
Town and me as 15,000, an estimate which I should be inclined
population f- 0 reduce to 10,000. The town is divided, so to speak,
into two quarters, the fringe along the shore, in which there is a
small covered bazaar of a single street, and a further cluster beyond
the date groves a little way inland. The feature of which the in
habitants are most proud, is a number of birkehs, or tanks, outside
the town, for the preservation of rain-water. It only rains here
during a period of two or three weeks in the year, and, there being
] , ) jio wells or fresh-water springs in the place, it is entirely depen
dent for the remainder of the twelve months upon the storage of
that brief interval. The rain-water is brought down in natural
channels from the hills, four or five miles inland, and conducted into
big circular reservoirs, twenty or thirty feet deep, which are covered
over with a domed roof to prevent loss by evaporation or stagnation.
There are thirty-six of these tanks in the town, and ten more at the
village of Kong, before mentioned; and the united supply is said
to be ample for a period of fourteen months. The population of the
place is partly Arab, partly Persian, partly African, partly that
nameless hybrid mixture that is found in every maritime town east
of Port/Said. The Arabs belong to the Kowasim (vulgarly pro
nounced Jowasmi) tribe, a branch of the larger stock who people the
opposite Arabian coast at Ras-el-Kheimah. For generations the
governorship of Lingah, and of the islands lying off' the shore, has
been an hereditary patrimony of the sheikh of this tribe, who
resided at Lingah, and was always recognised by the Persians as
deputy-governor of the town. The policy, however, of centralisa
tion, which I have so frequently sketched, has been applied to the
Jowasmi Arabs equally with the Kurds of Khorasan, the Beluchis of
the Mekran coast, and the Ka’b Arabs of Mohammerah; and in
the fate of Sheikh Kadthib, the last Arab governor of Lingah, Sheikh
Mizal Khan may perhaps see a foretaste of his own. Lirl887 a
detachment of Persian troops landed here, occupied the town without
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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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- 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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