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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [185r] (372/1814)
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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POLITICS AND COMMEPCE OF KHORASAN
expec s eventually to exercise, sovereignty over the whole of the
Turkoman tribes. Now it is believed that the Persian Yomuts
Weakness a y® T 11 * 6 content, if fairly treated, to observe a reason-
Central able all egiance to the Shah in order to escape the heavier
Govern- taxation of their brethren on the Russian bank of the
Atrek. 1 Every fresh disturbance, however, and still more
any evidence of the powerlessness of Persia to check it, provide lust
sue i an excuse for advance as a Power with aggressive intentions
wou , welcome with avidity; and Persia must be careful that in
his critical region she is not found playing into her opponent’s
lane. Had Russia intended at the time to play a forward instead
of a waiting game, she might have easily discovered an opportunity
m the recent disorders. That her secret sympathies were not on
the Persian side, was shown by the remarkable fact that the insur
gent Yomuts were found to be mainly supplied with Russian
breechloadmg rifles and cartridges.
Prom the Astrabad province, with its appanage of acute
political problems, we have now crossed into Khorasan proper
Bujnurd and Wlth our faces . turned in an easterly direction may
pursue our inspection of the frontiers. We pass from
the Turkomans to the Kurds, and in the Bujnurd district encounter
the first of the Kurdish communities whose ancestors were trans
planted by Shah Abbas about 1600 a.d. to the mountain border
of Khorasan. I have already in the chapter upon Kuchan described
with much fulness the circumstances under which these military
colonists entered the country, the conditions of their tenure, and
their present relations with the central power; and what I there
' sai ‘I Wl11 aPPty to Bujnurd equally with Kuchan. Whereas
Kuchan, however, is chiefly peopled with Zaferanlu Kurds, it is
the Shahdillu tribe who settled at Bujnurd, and still constitute
the large majority of its inhabitants. Like Kuchan, they are
ruled by a Khan, bearing the title of
Ilkhani
The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran.
, who, though ap
pointed by the Shah, is selected usually in hereditary descent
fiom the reigning family; who collects his own revenues, and
furnishes in return a military contribution to the state, and who
is generally in a superior position to an ordinary provincial
governor. The cavalry contingent supplied by the
Ilkhani
The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran.
of
This is confirmed by the latest news (1891), according- to which several
Unc ^ rec ^ Russian Yomuts have crossed into Persian territory, and have voluntarily
become the subjects of the Shah.
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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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