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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [105v] (217/1814)
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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78
PERSIA
corresponding period of 1889. Afghan merchants were further
declared, for the first time since the completion of the railway to
have established direct relations with it by the despatch of several
hundred bales of cotton to Charjui. 1
The great mercantile use made of the railway, and the stream
of goods traffic pouring towards it from all points of the compass
Organisa- liaVe necessitated a thorough Custom-house organisation
tion of in Transcaspia. This has been constituted on the bash
tamiliar m Russian practice, of exclusion, so far as
possible, of foreign competition, preferential treatment of subject
populations, and protection of home products and manufactures
The chief Custom-house is at Uzun Ada, but posts are also
established at Kizil Arvat, Ashkabad, Artik, Kaahka, Dushak,
Tejend, Sarakhs, Mery, Yuletan, and Takhta Bazaar. An ad valorem
duty of 2J per cent, is levied at Uzun Ada on all foreign goods
imported by sea. A similar duty, calculated at local market
prices, is also levied on all goods of European, Persian, or Indian
origin, brought by land into Transcaspia, whether for local con
sumption or in transit to Bokhara, Khiva, or Turkestan. All such
goods, if exported from Uzun Ada to European Russia or the
Caucasus, are further liable to an ad valorem duty of 5 per cent,
(the duty previously levied being returned). On the other hand,
goods from Bokhara, Khiva, and Turkomania, for European Russia or
the Caucasus, are allowed to pass through Uzun Ada free of duty
Similarly, all Persian goods in transit to Europe are passed duty
iee if forwarded bv Ashkabad or other stations of the Transcaspian
Railway.
These facts, as well as everything that I saw or heard on my
second visit, tend to bear out my previous conclusions as to the
Great com- lmmense commercial future that lies before the Trans-
mercia! Caspian Railway. Skirting or traversing countries of
great though inadequately developed resources, com
manding the export and import traffic of Transcaspia, Khorasan,
Bokhara, *orth Afghanistan, and Russian Turkestan, conveying to
those countries the exclusive productions of Russia, and taking
away from them m return the cotton and silk and wool and tissues
Russian merchants inYl ^ encoura g e and develop the growth of cotton by
a nroTecr or le "ol ^ ^ “ 1890 ratified
. project for leasing 170,000 acres in Turkestan to the ‘Central Asian
Commercial and Industrial Society,’ the lease to rn„ for • . Central Asla
rent to be paid for the first fifteen 7 yearS ’ “ ™
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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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- Mss Eur F111/33
- 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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