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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [381v] (765/1814)
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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526
PERSIA
In 1877, however, Russia embarked upon a policy of strict
protection, and adopted almost prohibitive measures against the
Russian Caucasian transit trade by demanding the deposit with
protection Russian officials of a sum equal to the entire value of the
goods transported through her territory, which was only returned
after it had been certified by official report that the goods had
crossed the frontier intact. This edict had the effect of driving
back the European trade with Persia to the Trebizond route. It
was to some extent modified a little later, but reappeared in a yet
more savage form in 1883, to which year we may attribute the
almost total cessation of the Caucasian route for European goods
bound for Persia, which have ever since continued to enter the
country from Trebizond. Of this route and the value of the trade
that passes along it, I shall say something in a later chapter upon
the Commerce of Persia. I am here restricting myself to the
figures of Azerbaijan, of which, however, it must be borne in mind
that a large proportion only passes through the Custom-house in
transit to other parts of the country, and therefore must not be
mistaken for local consumption.
Taking the returns for the last three years, or a period twenty
Latest years posterior to that previously selected, we find that
the totals are as follows:—
statistics
Imports .
Exports .
Total volume of trade
1887
£910,108
575,035
7485,143
1888
£664,196
413,694
7,077,890
1889
£853,891
389,456
1,213,347
England still retains a scarcely-disputed command of the market
in cotton goods (grey and white, coloured, and prints), the value
of her imports in these commodities (nearly all from Manchester)
having been 393,22(P. in 1888 and 501,83(P. in 1889. During
the same years Russia only imported 170 bales of cotton goods in
1888, and 196 bales, valued at 4,000Z., in 1889. The collapse in
Russian competition, which raged rather merrily a few years ago,
is to some extent due to temporary circumstances, of which the
main is the extraordinary rise of fifty per cent, in the value of the
Russian paper rouble in the course of the last two years, render
ing importation from that country an unremunerative proceeding.
Russia, however, assisted by a large direct bounty to her exporters,
has handsomely beaten French sugar in the Tabriz market,
although the rise in the rouble may detrimentally affect her here
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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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