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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [329r] (660/1814)
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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than a political cypher ; the real control of the foreign relations of
Persia being entirely in the hands of the Shah and the Prime
Minister.
Among the most important of the ministers, although at present
occupying only a secondary official rank, is Yahia Khan, known as the
Yahia Mushir-ed-Dowleh. He is the younger brother of the
Mushlr ed ^ amous Sadr Azem and Sipah Salar Mirza Husein Khan,
Dowleh who was Prime Minister at the time of the Shah’s first
visit to Europe, and who afterwards died in semi-exile at Meshed
in 1881. From early years he attracted the favour of his sove
reign. 1 He became a minister, received the Shah’s sister in marriage, 2
was appointed Governor of Gilan and Mazanderan, and afterwards
of Pars, was President of the Council of Regency during the Shah’s
second absence in Europe, and Minister of Foreign Affairs from
1885 to 1887. In that year he forfeited the post by the intrigues
which led to the flight of Ayub Khan from Teheran, and which
rendered him a persona ingrata to the British Legation. This
charge he resolutely denies; but it is to be feared that it is not
without serious justification. He has also been sent on a special
mission to St. Petersburg, where he was treated with great consider
ation, and where he is supposed to have imbibed Russian ideas.
He is now Minister of Justice and Commerce. Speaking French
admirably, the result of an early European education, and thoroughly
versed in the politics and habits of the West, he is probably one of
the cleverest of the public men in modern Persia. He inhabits a
magnificent house, which he holds no loan from the Shah, who
had confiscated it from his deceased brother. It adjoins the
immense Sipah Salar Mosque, which I have described in my
chapter on Teheran, and which he is completing in accordance
with the instructions and bequests of the former Sipah Salar.
At the time of my visit his eldest son was about to be married
to one of the daughters of the Vali-Ahd, and the Mushir, who
1 Contradictory and incorrect accounts of the incidents of his early career
have been given by Mme. Carla Serena (Homines el Clwses en Perse, cap. xx.), and
Benjamin, p. 225.
2 This lady, who is the Shah’s sister by the same mother, has had a somewhat
checkered matrimonial career. She was first wedded to Mirza Taki Khan the
great minister who was murdered by the Shah in 1852. She was then given to
the son of his successor in that post. Upon his disgrace and exile several years
later she was again set free, and on this occasion married her uncle, who soon
died of cholera. Her fourth and final destiny was as wife of Yahia Khan
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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).
- Extent and format
- 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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- Public Domain