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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [637r] (1290/1814)
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 263
Dizak
detested the Persians, all subsisted upon rapine ; and the Persian
authority amounted to little more than a prudent recognition of
local chieftains and an occasional armed expedition for the collec
tion of revenue. S^rhad produces an unlimited supply of sheep
and goats, and grows an immense amount of tamarisk, camel-thorn,
and asafoetida. Its principal place, and indeed the only place
which has hitherto figured on the map, is Washt, a large village
inhabited by Kurds.
A few of the remaining districts or subdivisions of the province
are deserving of mention. Dizak in the east is administered by a
deputy of the Governor of Bampur. It includes Kohak,
the border district that was forcibly appropriated by the
Persians in 1873, and Jalk, the extreme possession of Persia, as
officially certified, on the north-east. Jalk, i.e. the ‘ Desolate,’ con
sists of a number of villages, with a total population of 2,500 to
3,000, and of nine picturesque loop-holed forts in a big date grove
filling the mouth of a ravine for a distance of about four miles. The
principal, or Miri fort, was formerly destroyed by a detachment of
Nadir Shah’s army; but, though in a state of dilapidation, its walls
are still fifty feet high, and it is impregnable against Beluchi attack.
In the Jalk palm groves are a number of ancient brick-domed
structures of various shapes from twenty to sixty feet in height,
which are supposed to be tombs, and are locally attributed to a race
of Kafirs many hundred years ago.
The district of Serbaz, to the north of Chahbar and Gwetter 1
has been more frequently visited by Europeans, inasmuch as
through it run the main routes from the sea to Bampur.
SorfocLZ ^ • •
It contains Kasrkund, the principal town and seat of
government of Persian Mekran.
Between Serbaz and Bam-Narmashir, which I have spoken of
earlier as the frontier province of Kerman, is the considerable dis
trict of Bampur, 2 whose chief town, bearing the same
name, is the capital of the Governor of Persian Beluchi-
stan, who is himself subordinate to the
Prince Governor
A Prince of the Royal line who also acted as Governor of a large Iranian province during the Qājār period (1794-1925).
of
Kerman. The chief feature of Bampur is a large, well-built mud
Bampur
1 For these ports, I refer my readers to a future chapter on the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.
2 Pur is the termination, signifying ‘town’ (Sanskrit pur a), so common in
Indian names of places, e.g. Cawnpore, Manipur. It, or its neighbour Pahura, is
supposed to be the Uovpa, the capital of Gedrosia, through which Alexander
marched on his way back from India in 324 B.c.
V
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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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