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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [634r] (1284/1814)
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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THE EASTERN AND SOUTH-EASTERN PROVINCES 257
Commissioner, and of Ibrahim Khan of Bampur. Ultimately
finding any progress impossible, General Goldsmid retired to
the sea coast, and acting upon the information which he had
collected in 1861-64, and which had formed the basis of a report
m w m le recommended a frontier almost identical with that
which was afterwards adopted, as well as upon the further
knowledge collected by Major Lovett, who was sent out alon-
parts of the proposed line, with instructions to make a map he
then returned to Teheran, and submitted an arbitral decision to
the bhah. there was some squabbling about this, the king-
standing out for the inclusion of the small border district of
Kohak, . m . Persian territory, whereas Goldsmid persisted in
vindicating its independence ; but the line suggested by the latter
was presently agreed to (September 1871), the question of Kohak
being left over for future settlement—a Persian way of intimating
that in the Shah’s opinion possession was not nine-tenths only,
but the whole of the law. The acceptance of General Goldsmid’s
award was undoubtedly a great compliment to that officers
integrity and discretion. Encouraged thereby, he set out upon
the scarcely more thankful task of demarcating the Seistan
frontier, as described in a previous chapter. Major St. John was.
however, commissioned in 1872 to certify the frontier sketched by
Lovett, which, though approximately determined, had not been ,
actually followed or demarcated by the previous party. When t^ c ' G
this had been accomplished, the frontier, with the addition of the
Kohak district, which Persia has declined to abandon, was settled
as far north as Jalk, and has ever since been coloured as such
upon maps. It runs from Gwetter Bay, a little to the east of that
port, which was assigned to Persia, between the
watershed
The boundary between adjacent drainage basins.
of the
Dasht and Dashtiari (or Kaju) rivers, then bends to the east, and
finally follows the Mash kid or Mashkel river, flowing northwards
into a desert hamun or swamp.
Persia at once took advantage of her newly recognised status
to round off her possessions in these parts. Pishin had been
Persian annexed in 1870, and was confirmed to her by the
award. As soon as St. John’s back was turned, the
Governor of Bampur settled the Kohak question by marching in
and taking forcible possession. Isfandak, Murt, and Darida, in
the same district, were seized in 1872. In the same year the
Arabs of Muscat, who had held the port of Chahbar for nearly
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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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