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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [197r] (396/1814)
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 COMMERCE OF KHORASAN
215
*
Grand
total
Adding np the entire totals, we arrive at the following
hypothetical estimate of the trade of Khorasan :
Imports from Russia . . . £110,400
„ ,, India .... 60,800
„ „ Great Britain . 23,400
„ „ Europe . . . 15,700
„ ,, Afghanistan . 17,300
Total of imports . £227,000
Exports to Russia and Europe £111,400
Exports to India 39,000
,, „ Afghanistan . . 18,300
Total of exports . £168,700
Grand total £396,300.
From this total we must make a considerable reduction, on
account of the goods that are reckoned in it more than once, first
upon entering the province and then upon leaving it. On the
other hand, the figures of export via Teheran, Tabriz, and Trebi-
zond do not appear. The absence of any figures of the Perso-
Bokharan trade does not make as much difference as might other
wise be expected, the Persian exports to Bokhara consisting
almost wholly of Anglo-Indian goods, tea, indigo, muslin, &c.,
which have already been reckoned in the Bunder Abbas importa
tions.
Having analysed the present situation, and endeavoured to
some extent to forecast the future of foreign trade with Khorasan,
Steps to be niay not be out of place if I here indicate such steps as
taken by might with advantage be taken by the British Govern-
Britain ment, in order to retain and develop that share of the
business which they naturally possess, and to prevent an ultimate
loss of the remainder. Five such precautionary measures aie
within the range of practicability, although I fear that their
probability is not in each case in the same ratio. British con
sular officials should be appointed to superintend and protect the
principal trade route from the south. When I was at Bunder
Abbas there was not a single European in the place, and only an
unaccredited and purely unofficial representative of British mer
cantile interests. A British Vice-Consul might most opportunely
be appointed at Kerman, and a Consular agent at Yezd, or rice
versa. Secondly, the road running northward from Kerman, via
Rahwar, Nahiband and Tun, which is the principal caravan route
from the Gulf to Meshed, might with ease and at a small expense
be vastly improved by clearing out and resuscitating the filled-up
wells and water-courses by which it was once fertilised. Thirdly,
I see no reason why not only should the existing route be
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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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