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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [106v] (219/1814)
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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80
PERSIA
again be heard of till forward operations are contemplated Q
the other hand, the extension from the present terminus
Extensions Samarkand to Tashkent, which I previously predicted as
Trans 6 P robable > has emerged into clearer perspective; and
Caspian General Annenkoff hoped to be able to start work
Eailway ^ in May 1890. 1 It has since been announced tkt
the Czar has given his approval to the scheme drawn up by a
special commission for the great Siberian Railway, debouching upoli
the Pacific at Yladivostock, which is to be 4,785 miles in lenoth
to occupy ten years in construction, and to cost a sum variously
estimated at from twenty-five to forty millions sterling. 2 Should the
scheme be carried out, it cannot be long before the Transcaspian
Railway, prolonged by then to Tashkent, will be carried forward
till it joins the Siberian trunk line and completes the circle with
European Russia. The point of junction is said to have been fixed
at Omsk. In Transcaspia itself a branch line is talked of from
Karibent on the Tejend to Sarakhs. This would take Russia
eighty miles nearer to Herat.
Casting our eyes back upon Europe, where the Caucasian rail
way system is the indispensable corollary and complement of the
Parallel Transcaspian Railway, we find that after many delays the
SeSi Vladikavkas-Petrofsk line is said once again to have
received the Imperial sanction;» although other voices
are heard recommending a junction with the Central Russian lines
‘ < ? apta “ t' C ' Yate ’ the ^ atest English traveller on the Transcaspian Railway
(October 1890) informs me that there is now an idea of continuing-the line from
Samarkand to Khokand, so as to avoid the expense of bridging the Syr Daria.
After a protracted controversy between the rival schemes of a combined rail
mqi tiTT’ an< r COn ‘ lnuous railway, the latter was decided upon in March
line t m 6 r 1 ! ° m Z1 “’ the present ter — of the Samara-Ufa
hne 0 the nnmng districts of Miask and Cheliabinsk (84 miles); thence «
Kaensk > Manensk, Krasnoiarsk, and Kansk, to Nijni Udinsk (1,736
miles), the estimated cost of this section being 11,807,500^. or 6,5007 a mile.
Tr y A/vi T * U1 J Uchtuskaia > Irkutsk, S. Baikal, Sretensk, and
mated Tost’ 3°6 Tfodn/ ’ (2 ’ 965 miIeS,) T ° tal length ’ 4 ’ 785 miles i total esti '
, TTd A T . ’•° ran aVerage of 7 ’ 6m - a mile- Work has been com-
VladU-T T h e " leS; anda few versts of rails were hurriedly laid at
summer of1891 ena 6 1 6 Czaievl t° h t0 perform the opening ceremony in the
In the rLT 6 T ld b6 T 0 mUeS l0ng ’ and would .it is estimated, cost 1,200,000/.
nrel miTrv '“A Estimates . f °r 1891, a sum of 100,0007 is allotted for the
tension -T penSe ® of const ruction. From Petrofsk to Baku, a further ex
tension, 220 miles m length, is also discussed.
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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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- 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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