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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [434v] (871/1814)
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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616
PERSIA
designed solely in the interests of Kussian trade or aggression •
whilst its rumoured extension in the direction of Baghdad w ’
equally intended to give access to a part of the Turkish •
which Russia may some day find it not incompatible wither
respect for the eighth commandment to appropriate.
In 1878 a French-Armenian of Constantinople, M. Alleon
presenting a Paris firm, obtained a concession, also inoperative'
Alleon f rom R es ht 1° Teheran. An Austrian engineer Herr
Concession V on Scherzer, even traced a line for the railway, avoiding
the lofty Kharzan Pass over the Elburz by a circuitous
route through theBakandi Valley, and climbing the central plateau
by serpentines with a gradient of one in thirty-three. The proiect
came to grief because of the refusal of the Persian Government to
give a guarantee for the seven per cent, interest promised on the
capital to be raised.
In the succeeding years, Mr. Winston, American Minister
Resident, and an eccentric personage, very nearly obtained an
American extensive railway concession, but was baulked at the last
and moment. The English Government were on the verge
of a similar success, with a line from the Upper Karan
to Teheran. This, however, came to nothing. When a
line asked for or conceded to an English firm or English represen
tatives is finally refused, there is never any doubt as to the quarter
from whence the opposition has been inspired. This could be
proved to demonstration.
Finally, a M. Boital, who is a concessionary on a large scale,
and who has, at different times, received concessions for gasworks
and electric light at Teheran, and for the construction of
roads, obtained a group of railway concessions, the chief
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eluded branch lines in connection with the main system, and the
right to work all mines within a distance of ten kilometres on
either side of the metals. The works were to be opened in 1885,
and the concession was to run for ninety-nine years, caution
money to the extent of 500,000 francs being lodged by M. Boital
in Paris, as security for the fulfilment of his part of the contract.
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m Persia was not to be baffled, and the Boital proposals experi-
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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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- 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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