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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [184v] (371/1814)
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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190
PERSIA
Persian authority, and were during the year 1888-9 in active
rebellion. Further to the east are the Goklan Turkomans, a more
submissive people, who, in order to escape the hereditary enmity of
the Yomuts, have tranquilly accepted the Persian yoke, pay revenue
to the Shah’s exchequer, and provide him with a body of 300
irregular cavalry. 1
The rebellion of the Yomuts began in February 1888 , and
was not finally extinguished till March 1889 . It appears to have
Rebellion been fomented by, if not to have entirely arisen from,
p th - e a the scandalous misgovernment of the Persian authorities.
Yomuts go serious, however, did the movement become that at
one time 13,000 Persian troops, under the command of the
Governor-General of Khorasan, the Khans of Bujnuid and Kuchan,
and the
Prince Governor
A Prince of the Royal line who also acted as Governor of a large Iranian province during the Qājār period (1794-1925).
of Astrabad, were in the field against
them. Almost incredible stories are related of the cowardice of
the Persian troops, large bodies of 1,000 and 2,000 men being
checked and routed in open daylight by a few scores, or at most
hundreds, of Turkoman horsemen. It is only fair to add that the
Persian soldiers were perhaps as much actuated by discontent as
by cowardice in these discreditable proceedings. At least one-
half of their pay, when it came from Teheran, was pocketed by
the Saif-el-Mulk; and to expect these ill-fed, ill-clothed, and un
paid wretches to fight was perhaps more than human. Savage
acts of violence occurred on both sides, particularly on that of the
Persians, who spared neither the lives of the men nor the honour
of the women who fell into their hands. At length the revolt was
brought to an end by the familiar Persian methods of treachery
and intrigue. The clans were induced to turn against each other;
and, finally, the leading Ata Bai chieftain, Haji Kazar Khan, who
had been the life and soul of the rising, was enticed into Persian
territory and killed. The revolt then collapsed. 2
Episodes such as this not merely display the lamentable in
capacity of the Central Government, but they can have but one
ulterior consequence—the encouragement of Russian pretensions
on the north. It is well known that that Power claims, and
1 The weakness of the Astrabad Government is shown by the fact that, althoug
the Goklan Turkomans reside within the nominal borders of theAstrabad province,
their tribute is collected and their levies are commanded by the
Ilkhani
The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran.
of Bujnur •
2 For information about the Yomut Turkomans, vide Aucher Floy (18^ )>
Relations de Voyages, pp. 331-36, and notes by Kazi Syud Ahmed, printed in t e
Journal of the R.G.S., vol. xlvi. p. 142 (1876).
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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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