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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [195v] (393/1814)
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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212
PEKSIA
and endeavours to push it by fiscal tactics, which are discounten
anced by the gentlemen who call themselves political economists in
Customs England, but which are a familiar feature in the corn-
duties mercial strategy of foreign countries, and of the Russian
Government in particular. Her own goods pay the regular five
per cent, on crossing the Persian borders. But in order to encourage
the export of Persian cotton, she allows it a differential preference
of ten per cent, over that imported by the Baltic or Black Seas.
By a Customs decree of February 1889, Persian goods passing ink>
Transcaspia pay an ad valorem duty of two and a half per cent.
But by a later decree of February 1890 such goods, if only passing
through Transcaspia in transit to Europe, are exempted from all
duty whatever, if forwarded by Ashkabad or by any other station
of the Transcaspian railway.
Of the Anglo-Indian imports from Bunder Abbas, the largest
item, excluding the China tea, is still tea; Indian green tea to
Largest F 16 value of 7,140h (mostly in transit to Bokhara),
i 6 Anglo- anc ^ -*- n ^ an black tea, which is preferred in Khorasan,
Indian to the value of 12,000h Next comes indigo, with a total
value of 10,17(F., of which more than one-half is in transit to
Russian Central Asia . 1 The import duty on this indigo affords
an illustration of the cumulative system of taxation before-
mentioned ; for three per cent, is exacted at Bunder Abbas, one
per cent, at Kerman, and two and three-fourths per cent, on
arrival at Meshed. This, with the two and a half per cent,
exacted by Russia, when it passes into Transcaspia, and the
further two and a half per cent, levied by Bokhara on the fron
tiers of that khanate, makes it a somewhat expensive luxury by
the time it reaches the Tartar capital. In calico sheetings
and shirtings, both grey and bleached, there is a marked pre
ference for British over Russian goods, and of these nearly
12,00(R worth are imported via Bunder Abbas. A considerable
quantity of Kashmir shawls, of copper sheeting and tin, and
finally of drugs and spices, are the concluding items worthy of
mention.
The Tabriz-Teheran line brings whatever cottons and chintzes
can succeed in holding their own against the cheaper Russian
Indigo is largely used everywhere in Central Asia to dye silk and cotton
garments, to stain glass, and to give the colour to those blue and white enamelled
tiles which aie so familiar a feature in secular as well as religious ornamentation.
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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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