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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [508v] (1029/1814)
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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52
PERSIA
Ahhas II • but I infer that the latter connoted new streets and
SLg.TX tl» . second immigration, of which I have found
no corroborative record. Encouraged by rts royal founder, who
gave the new arrivals many privileges, exempting them from
servitude, granting them the free exercise of their religion, and a
halantar or mayor of their own nationality and lending t iem
money without interest, Julfa soon became a thriving and populous
nlace By the time of Herbert’s visit (1627), the number had
swollen to 10,000 souls. In Chardin’s day Julfa contained 3,400
houses and 30,000 persons (Fryer at the same time sa\s 6,000
families) more than a dozen churches or chapels, 1 a monastery, a
nunnery’ ‘where were about thirty poor widows or girls, ugly and
ill-shapen,’ and 100 to 120 priests. The Jesuits possessed an
establishment there (the ruins of their church can still be seen),
having arrived in 1645 under Pere Rigourdi with letters from the
Pope and the King of France. For a time the prosperity of the
colony was free from cloud or blemish, although the taxation levied
from it gradually increased in proportion to the dwindling sym
pathies or the growing cupidity of the later Sefavi kings. Shah
Suleiman was the first who systematically overtaxed and persecuted
the Armenians. Under Shah Sultan Husein, who prided himself
upon an unbending orthodoxy, the outlook became blacker still, a
law being promulgated that if a Persian killed an Armenian he
need only pay one load of corn to the family of the deceased. In
and after the Afghan invasion, the Julfans suffered terribly ; but
the storm did not finally culminate till the reign of Nadir Shah,
who alleging, most unjustifiably, that they had helped the
Afghans in the siege of Isfahan, visited them with savage penalties
and exactions, interdicted their worship, and placed them under a
ban of permanent social ostracism. Immediately upon the news
of his death in 1747, the miserable Armenians flocked away in
hundreds, if not thousands, to Georgia, to India, and to Baghdad;
and the population shrank to limits upon which it has never since
been able to make any appreciable advance. Olivier in 1796
reported 800 families, Morier and Ouseley 300 to 400 in 1811,
Martyn 500 in 1812, Ker Porter 300 in 1818, Lumsden 500 m
1 The foundations of the principal churches were as follows : St. Joseph, or
the Cathedral, in 1605; St, Stephen in 1691 ; St. John in 1695. St. George is
not now used for worship, but is a great place of pilgrimage, owing to its
possession of some miracle-working stones, prayer in front of which is fraught
with great benefit to the sick.
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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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