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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [439r] (880/1814)
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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deavour in this way to form some sort of plan of campaign upon
which, as soon as the. favourable moment occurs, British commerce
or capital may proceed to act in the future.
Railroads in Persia, or from its frontiers to the interior, may be
classified according to the direction from which they may be ex-
P bie pected to enter or to traverse Persian territory—i.e.,
lines of either from the north, the east, the south, or the west,
sia in 61 Along the north there are four possible lines of approach.
The first of these, if we commence our survey from the north-west
angle of Persia, would be a line from Tiflis, or from some other
station more to the east on the Tiflis-Bahu Railway, via
Tabriz- 8 " Erivan and Julfa to Tabriz, and thence via Kazvin to
Teheran Teheran, following more or less closely the present postal
route from the Caucasus to the Persian capital. As I have pointed
out a concession for such a line has once, if not more than once,
been granted, and at one time the Russians talked confidently
about its early execution. Such a line would possess certain com
mercial advantages, at least to Russian industry. It would lead
directly from Russian territory to Tabriz, the mercantile capital
and largest distributing centre of Persia. It would open up the
wealthy and fertile province of Azerbaijan, and it would facilitate
the Russian import trade into the interior of the country. I do
not myself, however, think that it is likely, for some time at least,
to he undertaken, and certainly not to be carried beyond Tabriz—
for the reason that the project would be too distinctively Russian
to interest the capital of other countries, and that the returns
would, for a long while, be too small to pay any interest to Russia
upon her original outlay. Already the proximity of hei frontier
provides her with an easy access to the Tabriz market, while her
monopoly of the Caspian gives her the choice of more than one
entry into Teheran. British goods would only profit by such a
railway in the case of its being carried beyond Tabriz, which, since
the final abolition by Russia of the Caucasian transit trade in IbBo,
they approach overland from Trebizond. The volume, however, of
this trade beyond Tabriz is not sufficient to make the matter one
of paramount moment to British commerce ; the more so as othei
projects are in existence for approaching Teheran from the south or
west, whereby English trade would be much more decisively an
solely the gainer.
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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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