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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [176r] (354/1814)
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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CHAPTER VIII
POLITICS AND COMMERCE OF KHORASAN 1
See how this river comes me cranking in
And cuts me from the best of all my land
A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out.
Shakspeare, Henry IV., Part I., act hi. scene 4.
In this chapter I propose to discuss the political and commercial
situation in Khorasan, the latter being a branch of the former
Design of subject, at any rate in a country where commerce can be
p " puisued with political objects, where mercantile agents
are frequently diplomatic emissaries m disguise, and where the
command of trade routes and bazaars is capable of being used as a
preliminary to territorial acquisition. I wish to place before my
readers the causes connected with these two spheres of action that
bring the province of Khorasan within the purview of European
politics, and are responsible for the existence of a Khorasan
Question. I desire to point out the parts that are or can be played
by Great Britain and Russia in the development of that question,
and their respective interests in its future settlement. I shall
endeavour, from data which I have collected with some trouble, and
which are not elsewhere to be found systematically displayed, to
indicate what that future is likely to be. First let me explain and
define the factors with which I propose to deal.
Khorasan, or the Land of the Sun, is the extreme north-
1 For writings relative to Khorasan, other than those which have been men
tioned oi quoted in caps, v., vi., vii., ride Sir J. Macdonald Kinneir (1810)
Geographical Memoir of the Persian Empire*, J. B. Fraser (1822), Journal of the
R.G.S., vol. viii. p. 308 (1838); Sergeant Gibbons (1831-1832), ibid., vol. xi. p.
136 (1841); Captain Claude Clerk (1857), ibid., vol. xxxi. p. 37 (1861) ; R. Lentz
Eastern Persia and the Herat Territory (Russian), St. Petersburg, 1868; Lieut'
W. J. Gill (1873), Geographical Magazine, October 1 , 1874 ; Hon. G. Napier (1874)
Journal of the R.G.S., vol. xlvi. pp. 62, 145 (1876); Proceedings of the R.G.S.,vol.
xx. p. 166 (1876) ; Lieut.-Col. C. E. Stewart (1880), Proceedings of the R.G.S. (New
Series), vol. iii. (1881), vol. viii. pp. 137-150 (1886); General Petrusevitch, The
Turkomans between the Old Bed of the Owns and the H. Persian Frontier (Trans
of Caucasus Branch of Imp. Russ. Geogr. Soc., No. xi.), Tiflis, 1880 • A H
Schindler on the Nomenclature and Legends of Khorasan in the Academy, 1885
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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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