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'Persia and the Persian Question by the Hon. George Nathaniel Curzon, M.P.' [356] (409/714)
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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PERSIA
When discussing the political and strategical aspects of the
Astrabad-Shahrud position in Chapter VIII., I undertook to say
Astrabad something more upon a future occasion of the former city
Province and of the province of which it is the capital. Politically,
Astrabad looks in the main towards Khorasan and the East. Physi
cally, it must be classified with the Caspian provinces, to which in
climate, vegetation, and character of inhabitants, it bears the closest
resemblance. Furthermore, any visitor to Mazanderan is so likely
either to start from Astrabad, if he be coming from the East, or
to end his journey there if he have started from Teherap, that
some mention of its features seems to be appropriate in this
connection.
Astrabad city ' (i.e. the town of either astra star, or aster mule),
sometimes called by the Persians Dar-el-Muminin or Gate of the
History of Faithful, from the number of Seyids living there, is said
the City Fraser, who is incomparably the best authority upon
the Northern provinces, to have been founded by Yezid ibn Meklub,
or Muhallab, an Arab chief of great celebrity, and general of the
armies of the Omeyah Khalif Suleiman about 720 a.d . 2 Its
subsequent history is somewhat obscure. Of course it was levelled
in the universal cyclone of Timuride destruction in 1384 a.d . In
later history it became famous as the headquarters of the Kajar
(ISBl), Journal of the B.G.S., vol. iii.; Colonel W. K. Stuart (1836), Journal of a
Residence in Persia, cap. x. xi.; Major D'ArcyTodd (1836), Journal of the R.G.S.,
vol. viii. pp. 102-108 ; A. Eloy (1836), Relations de Voyages, pp. 416-451; Sir H.
Rawlinson (1838), ibid., vol. x. p. 1; A. Chodzko (1839), Nourelles Annales des
Voyages, 5me serle, vols, xx., xxi.; W. R. Holmes (1843), Sketches on the Caspian
Shores-, F. A, Buhse (1848), Annales des Voyages, 1851, part iv.; N. de Khanikoff
(1859), Journal Asiatique (1862) ; Keith Abbott (1859), Proceedings of the R G.S.,
vol. iii. p. 390 ; E. 1>. Eastwick (1860), Journal of a Diplomate, vol. ii.; M. Guilliny
(1866), Essai snr le Ghilan {Bull, de la Soc. de Orogr.) ; G, Melgunof (1868), Da*
Sudliche TJfer des Kaspischen Meeres, oder die Nordprovinzen Persiens ; Colonel
Val. Baker (1873), Clouds in the East-, Dr. Tietze (1875), Zeitsehrift der Ges. filr
Erdkunde, Vienna, 1875; B. Dorn, Caspia (Russian), 1875; Captain Puschin
(1877), The Caspian Sea (Russian); Colonel B. Lovett (1881-18S2), Proceedivys
of the R.G.S. (new series), vol. v. (1883) and Consular Report, No. 36, 1882.
1 For accounts of Astrabad city vide Jonas Han way (1743-1744), Historical
Account, vol. i. p. 165, &c.; J. B. Eraser (1822), Travels on the South of the
Caspian, cap. i. ; W. R. Holmes (1844), Sketches on the Caspian Shores, caps, xiv.,
E. B. Eastwick (1860), Journal of a Diplomate, vol. ii. pp. 50-59; (Sir) C.
MacGregor (1875), Journey through Khorasan, vol. ii. pp. 161-163; E. O'Donovan
(1880), The Merv Oasis, vol. i, cap. x.; Colonel B. Lovett (1881), Consular
Report, No. 36, 1882.
2 The Encyclopedia Britannica antedates the reign of Suleiman by one
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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