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'Persia and the Persian Question by the Hon. George Nathaniel Curzon, M.P.' [‎636] (705/714)

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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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636 PERSIA
be costly, absolutely unremunerative, useless to Persia, and perilous
to health.
There are, however, two other lines of Persian extension, which
have been discussed or recommended by the eminent authority
Shushter- of Sir P. Goldsmid,' and which are, therefore, deserving
Bunder- of careful consideration. In either case, starting from
Abbas Baghdad, in connection with a Euphrates or Tigris Valley
railway, the line recommended would pass in an easterly direction
through Persian territory, avoiding the Gulf, by Shushter and Ram
Hormuz, or possibly by Hawizeh, and Ahwaz, to Behbehan
whence an existing caravan route would be followed to Shiraz!
From Shiraz two lines of communication are available to the sea •
a northerly line by Pasa, Darab, and Porg, 2 or a more southerly
line by Lar, both debouching upon Bunder Abbas. Thence
the railroad would be continued along the Mekran coast to
Kurrachi.
Of this scheme I will merely say that it would meet with
physical difiiculties by no means easily or cheaply overcome, that -L
True line ^ predicates the long Mekran coast continuation, for
Per C 8 ian ral yyhich 1 liave 110 likir % and th at it appears to me to
caS Uni " forsake tlje true line of Trans-Persian railway communica
tion, which I should be inclined to place a good deal
more to the north. If ever a railroad is built in a transverse direc
tion across the breadth of Persia, it will surely not be by so
southerly or unremunerative a line that it will be conducted. The
true line would seem rather to be one that shall unite the great
agricultural, manufacturing, and commercial centres of Persia,
and that shall be constructed with reference to Persian as well as
to British requirements. Such a line is more likely to be found
along the track Baghdad, Kermanshah, Burujird, Isfahan, Yezd,
Kerman, which I believe to be the ultimate route of through
comm unication by rail, in the far distant days when such a de
velopment becomes possible. What I have elsewhere said with
lefeience to a Seistan railway will show how this scheme might
connect with the Indian railways, and how it would possess the
'T idea. Lecture entitled On Communications with British India under Possihle
CanUngencies, read before the E. U. S. I. on June 14, 1878 ; and a paper on A
Railway throngh Southern Persia, read at the British Association in September
" in the Scottish Geographical Magazine for December, 1890.
.7 1} t '| t< J, 1 ' ^ ' ' eece in 1885. Vide Supplementary Proceedings of 'jj®
the P. G. S., vol. i. 1886, Part III

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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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