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'Persia and the Persian Question by the Hon. George Nathaniel Curzon, M.P.' [177] (212/714)
The record is made up of 1 volume (351 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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177
CHAPTER VIII
POLITICS AND COMMERCE OF KHORASAN 1
See how this river comes me cranking in
And cuts me from the best of all my land
A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out.
Shakspeaee, Henry IV., Part I., act iii, scene 4.
In this chapter I propose to discuss the political and commercial
situation in Khorasan, the latter being a branch of the former
Design of subject, at any rate in a country where commerce can be
chapter pursued with political objects, where mercantile agents
are frequently diplomatic emissaries in disguise, and where the
command of trade routes and bazaars is capable of being used as a
preliminary to territorial acquisition. I wish to place before my
readers the causes connected with these two spheres of action that
bring the province of Khorasan within the purview of European
politics, and are responsible for the existence of a Khorasan
Question. I desire to point out the parts that are or can be played
by Great Britain and Russia in the development of that question,
and their respective interests in its future settlement. I shall
endeavour, from data which I have collected with some trouble, and
which are not elsewhere to be found systematically displayed, to
indicate what that future is likely to be. First let me explain and
define the factors with which I propose to deal.
Khorasan, or the Land of the Sun, is the extreme north-
1 For writings relative to Khorasan, other than those which have been men
tioned or quoted in caps, v., vi., vii., vide Sir J. Macdonald Kinneir (1810)
Geographical Memoir of the Persian Empire', J. B. Fraser (1822), Journal of the
R.G.S., vol. viii. p. 308 (1838); Sergeant Gibbons (1831-1832), iUd., vol. xi. p.
136 (1841); Captain Claude Clerk (1857), iUd., vol. xxxi. p. 37 (1861); R. Lentz,
Eastern Persia and the Herat Territory (Russian), St. Petersburg, 1868; Lieut.
W. J. Gill (1873), Geographical Magazine, October 1, 1874 ; Hon. G. Napier (1874),
Journal of the R.G.S., vol. xlvi. pp. 62, 145 (1876); Proceedings of the R.G.S.^oV.
xx. p. 166 (1876) ; Lieut.-Col. C. E. Stewart (1880), Proceedings of the R.G.S. (New
Series), vol. iii. (1881), vol. viii. pp. 137-150 (1886) ; General Petrusevitch, The
Ttirltomans hetween the Old Red of the Oxus and the JV. Persian Frontier (Trans,
of Caucasus Branch of Imp. Russ. Geogr. Soc., No. xi,), Tifiis, 1880; A. H.
Schindler on the Nomenclature and Legends of Khorasan in the Academy, 1885.
VOL. I. N
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The volume is Volume I of George Nathaniel Curzon, Persia and the Persian Question , 2 vols (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1892).
The volume contains illustrations and four maps, including a map of Persia, Afghanistan and Beluchistan [Baluchistan].
The chapter headings are as follows:
- I Introductory
- II Ways and Means
- III From London to Ashkabad
- IV Transcaspia
- V From Ashkabad to Kuchan
- VI From Kuchan to Kelat-i-Nadiri
- VII Meshed
- VIII Politics and Commerce of Khorasan
- IX The Seistan Question
- X From Meshed to Teheran
- XI Teheran
- XII The Northern Provinces
- XIII The Shah - Royal Family - Ministers
- XIV The Government
- XV Institutions and Reforms
- XVI The North-West and Western Provinces
- XVII The Army
- XVIII Railways.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (351 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is divided into chapters. There is a list of contents between ff. 7-10, followed by a list of illustrations, f. 11. There is an index to this volume and Volume II between ff. 707-716 of IOR/L/PS/C43/2.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the first folio bearing text and terminates at 349 (the large map contained in a polyester sleeve loosely inserted between the last folio and the back cover). 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. Foliation anomaly: ff. 151, 151A. Folio 349 needs to be folded out to be read. There is also an original printed pagination sequence. This runs from viii-xxiv (ff. 3-11) and 2-639 (ff. 12-347).
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- IOR/L/PS/20/C43/1
- Title
- 'Persia and the Persian Question by the Hon. George Nathaniel Curzon, M.P.'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1:24, 1:86, 86a:86b, 87:104, 104a:104b, 105:244, 244a:244d, 245:272, 272a:272b, 273:304, 304a:304b, 305:306, 306a:306b, 307:326, 326a:326b, 327:338, 338a:338b, 339:344, 344a:344b, 345:354, 354a:354b, 355:394, 394a:394b, 395:416, 416a:416b, 417:420, 420a:420b, 421:520, 520a:520d, 521:562, 562a:562b, 563:564, 564a:564b, 565:606, 606a:606b, 607:642, i-r:i-v, back-i
- Author
- Curzon, George Nathaniel, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
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- Public Domain