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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [440r] (882/1814)
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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superiority with reference to Ivhorasan, that a separate railway is
not needed to expedite her advance, and which have opened to her
other and far better avenues of approach either to Meshed or
Herat.
I have, in the fifth chapter of this volume, discussed the
project of a railway from the Russian capital of Transcaspia, vid
5 Ashk- Kuchan, to Meshed, which route I have there minutely
abad- described. It will have been evident from what was
Meshed there said that, simple as would be the construction of a
railroad across the almost level plain from. Kuchan to Meshed,
neither the Russian nor the Persian sections of the made roadway
between Ashkabad and Kuchan have been engineered with a view
to rails being laid upon or near to them, and that it may, accord-
inHy, be presumed that Russia has abandoned any such notion.
While I was at Meshed, however, another and far more feasible
project of railway connection between the Russian dominions in
Transcaspia and the capital of Khorasan was mentioned
Sarakhs a - for the first time, and is said to have been referred to a
Meshed S p ec i a l military committee in the Caucasus, by the
Governor-General of which territory, Prince Dondoukoff-Korsakoff,
it was believed to be strongly recommended. This was the scheme
for a Russian branch line from the station of Dushak on the Trans
caspian Railway to Meshed. Such aline would, in all probability,
pass vid the frontier outpost of Sarakhs, and would, in that case,
constitute a first instalment of the ultimate Russian extension to
Herat, thereby killing two birds—by threatening both Meshed and
the Afghan frontier—with one stone. In the spring of the past
year (1891) it has been announced that General Annenkoff is
pressing strongly for the Dushak-Sarakhs extension ; whilst later
reports render it likely that the same result will be attained by a
branch line, not from Dushak, but from Karibent on the Trans
caspian Railway to Sarakhs. Up to that point the undeitaking
might menace, but would not be a violation of, the agreement
with Persia. It could only be extended into Persia —i.e.
towards Meshed—by abandoning the policy embodied in t le
document referred to, and thereby throwing open the oor to
foreign railroad competition in other parts of the country. or
these reasons, and because the military position of Russia with
reference to Khorasan is already so well assured as to render any
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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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