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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [600v] (1215/1814)
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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198
PERSIA
would be knocked to pieces in a fortnight. Accordingly, we have
said good-bye to the chajpar-khaneh, the chap arc]bi, and the
chapar-shagird, who have loomed large in our daily existence foi
so long ; and the remaining 160 miles of our descent to the Gulf
must be traversed by caravan, the traveller hiring such number of
mules as are necessary for him and his baggage, and sleeping at
night either, if invited, in the Telegraph stations and rest-houses,
or in such surroundings, at caravanserais and elsewhere, as he can
procure. The journey is usually accomplished in five 01 in ^ix
days, the former being regarded as fairly good time, seeing that m
such a country it is cruel on the animals to expect of them much
more than a maximum of thirty miles in the day; and that the
muleteer or charvadar, who contracts for the party, himself
accompanies it throughout on foot. For my own march I paid at
the rate of five
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
per mule for the whole distance ; this being
a little above the ordinary charge, as I postulated extra speed. I
preferred to ride a yabu, or pony, myself, having no fondness for a
mule, and having accepted a challenge at Shiraz as to the numbei
of miles over which it was possible to proceed at anything beyond
a foot-pace between that city and the Gulf.
Table of Tlie f 0 ^ 0 W i n g is tlie ta ^ le of stations an ^ ^stances, as
route reckoned according to Persian and English standards of
measurement:—
Xame of Station
Distance
in
farsalchs
Approxi
mate
distance
in miles
!
Xame of Station
i
Distance
in
farsalchs
Approxi
mate
distance
in miles
j Shiraz* (4,750 ft.) .
i Konar Takhteh * %
! Khan-i-Zinian %
(1,800 ft.) . . .
3
12
( 6,100 ft.) .' . .
rr
4
30
Dalikif (250 ft.) .
4
15
Dasht-i-Arzen *
Borazjun (100 ft.)
4
15
(6,400 ft.) . . .
3
12
Ahmedi j; or Shif
4 or 7
15 or 25
Mian Kotal J
11
Bushire * . . . .
6
22
(5,500 ft.) .
o
1 1
Kazerun* (2,750 ft.)
6
21
Total
45
173 1
Kamarij t (2,950 ft.)
5
20
.
* _ Telegraph Station. t = Telegraph Rest-house. | =
Caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
.
1 Total distance to Shif (whence boat to Bushire) ^farsalihs, or 161 miles. The
route from Shiraz to Bushire has been described by many of the travellers, whose
works I have already cited as references for the journey from Shiraz to Isfahan,
or from Isfahan to Teheran, viz. by C. Niebuhr (1765), W. Franklin (1787),
E. Scott Waring (1802), Sir J. Malcolm (1800, 1810), J. P. Morier (1809, 1811),
Sir W. Ouseley (1811), W. Price (1811), J. S. Buckingham (1816), Col. Johnson
(1817), Lieutenant Lumsden (1817), Sir R. K. Porter (1818), J. B. Fraser (1821),
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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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