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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [434r] (870/1814)
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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d the reversion of the entire establishment at the end of seventy
a Baron de Reuter at once commenced operations. The pre
liminary route from the Caspian was surveyed, engineers were sent
ut and a few miles of earthwork were constructed in the neigh-
1 ood of Resht in order to escape forfeiture of the caution money.
Rut the intense and angry hostility of Russia, the indifference of
England, steeped at that time in abysmal ignorance of all things
Persian, and the stubborn antagonism of the Persian reactionaries,
ilv defeated a scheme whose colossal proportions rendered it
impossible from the start, and, on the Shah’s return from his
European tour, a fictitious excuse was easily discovered and the
concession was revoked.
Less ambitious schemes for some time afterwards occupied the
field In 1874 General or Baron von Falckenhagen, a retired
Russian engineer officer, who had constructed several
hagen lines in Georgia, came out to Teheran, and, ostensibly
Concession ^ hig own account, but in reality strongly backed by
the Russian Government, pressed for a line from Julfa, on the
north-west Perso-Russian frontier, to Tabriz, in connection with
a Russian line from Tiflis to Julfa. According to this scheme the
Persian Government was to guarantee six and a half per cent, for
forty-four years on the capital of the company to be raised, five
per cent, interest, and one and a half per cent, as a sinking fund;
no concession was to be granted to any other line within a radius
of 100 miles; and the company also proposed to arrogate to
itself the customs of Tabriz. This proposal was sufficiently
cool and barefaced to arouse the opposition of the Shah, in
spite of the imperious pressure exercised by the. Russian
Minister . 1 A modified concession was subsequently m 187fi pro
posed by the Shah, in which the Persian Government guarantee
three per cent, on the nominal capital of the company, reserving
to itself the control of the expenditure of the line, an em
ing forty per cent, of the revenue received after six pe
had been paid on the nominal capital. General Falcken agen
could not procure the funds for working the concession ’
and the project fell through. It is needless to say
1 Sir H. Bawlinson said of the Falckenhagen Concession, which,
did not name, ‘ There can be no question that the interferon
Government in this matter has far transcended the limits o a vi^ ^ ^ shah’s
ation tendered by a friendly power, and has given a
independent authority.’— England and Russia in the East, p-
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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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