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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [643v] (1303/1814)
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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PERSIA
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me w reproduce or refer to the old li*>.' Amoug lie Whes of
Z Bala Giriwa, bowe.er, He Dirikwaud hare relamed lien- old
pre-emmence for turbulence and brigandage. They are now nude.
To Mir H.B Khan, who i. at chrome enm.ty with h.a nephew
Z "amdar Khan. Both are great robber., and when not ex.,-
d ing then predatory inclinations at each other . expense, are apt
Trent thel upon trarellor, by the D.sful-Khcreem.W read .
xKp oreater part of which, on the principle, I imagine, ot net a
Wef to catch a thief,’ they have been placed in charge by the
government * For this service they are supposed to receive a
subsidy from the latter; but as this is rarely, if ever, paid, an
apologist for their excesses may find therein some excuse.
I lave spoken of Khorremabad as the present seat of government
in Luristan! a distinction which the central position of he
W its physical advantages have secured to it since tlie
Middle Ages. 3 A solitary rock rises suddenly in the jaws
of a pass opening upon a rich plain. At its foot lies the mocem
t 0W n which does not contain more than 2,000 inhabitants Its
summit is crowned by the Bala Hissar or ruined castle of the,
Atabegs, which stands up with gloomy outline of walls and towers
sol; robber stronghold of the Khine. Here f “
pendent rulers of a bygone age lived m lordly style, the
beine supplied with water by a deep shaft sunk m the rock a
magnificent spring below. Within the shell of the old fort Moham
med Ali Mirza, the eldest son of Fath Ali Shah, and .g ove ™ OP °
Luristan, built himself a palace, which is now in a state
decay. The present governor lives m an edifice at the
rock The Khorremabad river, spanned by a long bridge of twen y-
eight arches, flows below. On the opposite bank, at a lttle c 1S '
tance, lie the ruins of the Atabegs’ city, of which a quadrangu
1 The latest list that I have seen of the Pish-Kuh tribes is that^ of A.^H.
Schindler (1878), Zeit. d. Geselo. f. Erd. ' oL X1V ' P '
opoordinv to official documents, 39,550 families.
This is a favourite plan with the Persians. A few years ago * er ® ' va * ‘
noted robber chief of the Hamawand tribe, named Jan Mir ^an, who wa ^
terror of the frontier district near Kasr-i-S nm. the frontier with a
good behaviour, the Persians, in 1886, made him to a
1
“ SaXlf^ddle Ages. The castle was
called Diz-i-Siah.
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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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