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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [116v] (239/1814)
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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PERSIA
insecurity arising from the bloody feuds and divisions of tl
Kurdish clans in the west. 1 The expatriated tribes were tl
Shahdillu, Zaferanlu, Kaiwanlu, and Amanlu; and it is said tint
while the transplantation of 40,000 families was originally C on
templated by Abbas, the resistance of several of the chieftains
reduced the number actually moved to 15,000 families.^ Settled
in the mountains and valleys between Astrabad and Chinaran tl
held their new territories free from revenue or tribute, on tlie
feudal ground of military service, being responsible for the safety
of the frontier and for the provision of mounted troops to the
army of the King. The great richness of Kuchan accounted for a
money tribute being subsequently demanded from its ruler as we
Buj nurd, as a pooiei district, was not mulcted m more than
independent position, no less than the hereditary instincts of the
new-comers, soon led to the acquisition by their chieftains of great
power and much importance. Of these, Kuchan from an early
date acquired the superiority, and the title of
Ilkhani
The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran.
(i.e Lord of
the Ils or Clans) was bestowed upon its ruler, either in recogni
tion of his pre-eminence or, as some say, in order to make him
personally answerable to the central authority for the good be
haviour of the whole. Nevertheless, the Kurdish settlers were
constantly either in veiled or open rebellion; and although Nadir
Shah attempted to conciliate them by marrying a daughter of the
Ilkhani
The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran.
, they took advantage of his absence in India again to
assert their independence. At this he was so infuriated that,
vowing their complete extermination, he marched against Kuchan,
and was already outside its walls when, in 1747, he was murdered
in his tent. Again in the present century Kuchan was in open
rebellion against Fath Ali Shah- and when Burnes was therein
1832 the town had just fallen, after a protracted siege, to the
army of Abbas Mirza, the heir apparent, whose artillery was
directed by British officers. The experiences of the present
Ilkhani
The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran.
, which I shall presently relate, have shown that under the
reigning Shah rebellion is a more precarious experiment; and
The original plantation is referred by some writers, but I think incorrectly,
to Shah Ismail, the founder of the Sefavi dynasty.
2 Yet I have somewhere seen the number of removals stated as 100,000 families.
Tit t ^ L~v i r. n i 1 •
a misprint for 100,000 persons.
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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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