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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [297r] (596/1814)
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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THE NOKTHERN PROVINCES
371
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ys fi, tei ' Vals of
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r; ‘ he «'•««?
:ht u Mpi <
ne y b ecom e f at
viable condit;^
'"S eS P
lac
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
«!
" ihls goes on
Really closed
the _ boughs are
1 Wl tli beautiful
^ develop i nto
-ken down, the
3 rs i° n in boiling
on reels. The
light,- when the
0 to oOO eggs,
cultivated area,
tons sources of
systematic, ad-
ire considerable
shall speak in
itry. Much of
s well adapted
by John Elton,
who was com-
flotilla on the
and ordered to
If, in order to
exported from
and England.
5 timber which
apathetically
sea much l esS
die months of
ised by a Russian
17,000
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
the principal rivers, especially the Sefid End, and the marine
agoons. swarm with a variety of fish, sturgeon, salmon, mullet,
Toon c r Cai P' N ^he mouth of the above-named river nearly
, 00 fish have sometimes been taken in the day at the height of the
season, whilst m the Enzeli lagoon 300,000 carp have been netted
in a single day. At the time of my visit the entire fisheries on
the south shore of the Caspian were leased to a Russian for 65 000
femms (18,500/.) a year ; and from the export both of dried fish
and still more of caviar to Russia, he was said to make a large
annual profit by the speculation.
The revenue of these two provinces has been peculiarly fluctua
ting, according as it has followed the ups and downs of their
Revenue materlal progress or decline. Fraser in 1822 found the
200 non ~nn°f GllaU ’ ^ CUSt ° ms and land - tax > to b »
200,000 to ^ 10,000
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
, or 110,000/. to 115,000/ Ten years
later Monteith returned it as 300,000
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
, whilst, after a further
ecade it had, according to Holmes, reverted to the original figure.
blr &old snnd has given the revenue (in 1874) as 440000
- . T1 » w-"* v*** - olZ
repoit, gives 105,000
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
as the revenue of Mazanderan and
says that no surplus is left therefrom for the treasury, the entire
receipts being consumed in military and administrative expenses.
do not find that this is the case. In 1888-89 the revenue of
Mazanderan was 139,350
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
in cash, that of Gilan 345 000
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
. The expenditure in the former province on government
° f COlleCting ’ puWic buildin gs, &c, was only returned
at 4,590
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
; m the latter it was 24,430 tovians What
proportion actually reached the Royal Exchequer it is impossible
to determine.
Shut off by the mountains from the rest of Persia, and differing
therefrom m climate, character, and interests, the Caspian pro-
History v ' nce ) bave necessarily played a somewhat independent
part in history. The imagination that finds both its
stimulus and satisfaction in the legendary period of a nation’s life
not unnaturally located the heroes of Persian myth in the sublime
uplands. There they fought their battles and triumphed, the very
beasts of the forest taking their side in the conflict; there Rustam
vanquished the Div Sefid, or White Demon; an inferior order of
men, predestined to a just servitude, inhabited the maleficent
regions below. The part played by these provinces in classical
B B 2
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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)
- Physical characteristics
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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