'Persia and the Persian Question by the Hon. George Nathaniel Curzon, M.P.' [627] (696/714)
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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koff, which have placed her in a position of such overwhelming
superiority with reference to Khorasan, that a separate railway is
not needed to expedite her advance, and which have opened to her
other and far better avenues of approach either to Meshed or
Herat.
I have, in the fifth chapter of this volume, discussed the
project of a railway from the Russian capital of Transcaspia, via
5. Ashk- Kuchan, to Meshed, which route I have there minutely
?£ )a 4' described. It will have been evident from what was
Kuchan-
Mesbed there said that, simple as would be the construction of a
railroad across the almost level plain from Kuchan to Meshed,
neither the Russian nor the Persian sections of the made roadway
between Ashkabad and Kuchan have been engineered with a view
to rails being laid upon or near to them, and that it may, accord
ingly, be presumed that Russia has abandoned any such notion.
While I was at Meshed, however, another and far more feasible
project of railway connection between the Russian dominions in
, Transcasnia and the capital of Khorasan was mentioned
6. Dushak- . . .. , „ J
Sarakhs- for the first time, and is said to have been reierred to a
Meshed S p ec i a i military committee in the Caucasus, by the
Governor -General of which territory. Prince Dondoukoff-KorsakofF,
it was believed to be strongly recommended. This was the scheme
for a Russian branch line from the station of Dushak on the Trans-
caspian Railway to Meshed. ' Such a line would, in all probability,
pass via the frontier outpost of Sarakhs, and would, in that case,
constitute a first instalment of the ultimate Russian extension to
Herat, thereby killing two birds—by threatening both Meshed and
the Afghan frontier—with one stone. In the spring of the past
year (1891) it has been announced that General Annenkoff is
pressing strongly for the Dushak-Sarakhs extension ; whilst later
reports render it likely that the same result will be attained by a
branch line, not from Dushak, but from Karibent on the Trans-
Caspian Railway to Sarakhs. Up to that point the undertaking
might menace, but would not be a violation of, the agreement
with Persia. It could only be extended into Persia —i.e.
towards Meshed—by abandoning the policy embodied in the
document referred to, and thereby throwing open the door to
foreign railroad competition in other parts of the country. For
these reasons, and because the military position of Russia with
reference to Khorasan is already so well assured as to render any
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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.
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- 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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- 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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