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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [279r] (560/1814)
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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TEHERAN
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trated here, with a view of representing, not so much a single
incident, as the events of an entire period. Accordingly, Sir John
Malcolm, Sir Harford Jones, Sir Gore Ouseley, and the French
General Gardanne, all figure in the pictures, being recognisable both
by their uniforms and their features. The Englishmen’s dress con
sists of a three-cornered cocked hat, laced red coat with huge skirts,
white breeches, and the then obligatory Persian red stockings pulled
up above the knee. These paintings, which possess the very highest
historical importance, and which in so dry a climate have been
admirably preserved, were the work of Mohammed Hasan Khan,
one of the most eminent artists of the period. As works of art,
whilst violating all laws of perspective and all requirements of
light and shade, they are yet admirable also, and, in their stiff
angularity of pose, suggest no unfair idea of what was then the
most rigid and ceremonious Court of the East.
In an upper chamber of the same pavilion, Mirza Abul Kasim,
the Kaimakam, 1 or Grand Vizier, of Mohammed Shah (the father
of the present monarch), was strangled in 1835, by order of his
royal master, who therein followed an example set him bv his
predecessor, and set one himself that was duly followed by his son.
J ^ find, three successive sovereigns who
have put to death, from jealous motives only, the three ministers
who have either raised them to the throne or were at the time
of their fall filling the highest office in the State. Such is the
triple distinction of Fath Ali, Mohammed, and Nasr-ed-Hin
Shahs.
An adjoining pavilion was devoted to the cinderun, or ladies'
quarter; and here the visitor is conducted to a subterranean bath-
Bath-room roon b ^ centre of which is a circular pool, lined with
blue tiles, whilst at the extremity of the chamber is an
inclined plane of polished marble, 2 down which it is understood
that the shiftless naiads, over whom Sir R. K. Porter waxed
poetical, used to slide into the arms of their royal adorer, and were
by him pitched into the pool—a feat of no common exertion, con-
He was the son of Mirza Buzurg, also known as the Kaimakam, who was
the great Minister of Abbas Mirza, the Prince Royal at Tabriz. When Mirza
Bnznrg died, his son succeeded to his position and title with Abbas Mirza, and,
upon the latters death in 1833, with .Mohammed Shah. But his haughty and
imperious demeanour rendered his fall certain.
Binning (Two Years' Travel, vol. ii. cap. xxix.) made the discovery that this
slide was sheeted with zinc; but no one else has ratified the discovery, or will.
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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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