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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [656v] (1329/1814)
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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from the vicissitudes of his eventful career. With some of his
subjects he is popular, being regarded as considerate and just, and
he produced a favourable impression upon Colonel Bell in 1884.
But his history has left its mark upon his character no less than
upon his countenance, and distrust and suspicion are written on
both. As
Ilkhani
The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran.
he receives an annual salary of 1,000
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
or
280?., and pays a tribute to the Shah which is calculated at about
two
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
per household. His brother, Reza, who is five years
his junior, pays 5,700?. a year as farm-money for Chehar Mahal,
and is reported to be avaricious and mean. Though he was a
partisan of his nephew in 1888, the two are not now on speaking
terms. His son is sertip of the Bakhtiari force that is maintained
in their native hills. Isfendiar Khan has not passed unscathed
through the ordeal of his earlier years. His father’s murder and
his own imprisonment have not rendered him an admirer of the
powers that be, while the spectacle of others filling the place which
he is entitled and qualified to occupy himself, scarcely tends to
mitigate the sentiment. He is still, however, a comparatively
young man, and, unless the Persian Government be contemplating
any fresh wiles, is likely before long to become the de jure ruler of
his people. The physiognomies of the three chieftains are not
inadequately portrayed in the adjoining illustration. The pedigree
which I have drawn up, and which has been out to Persia for con
firmation, gives further particulars of the ruling family. Once
annually-the triumvirate meets in conference at Chaghkhor to
settle the tribal affairs for the ensuing year. During the past
summer (1891), I have not been surprised to hear that hostilities
have again broken out. But so far they do not appear to have
involved a direct rupture of the official status quo.
One result of the continued ascendency of the Haft Lang chief
tains has been to bring the long-standing feud between the old
tribal divisions to an end. The Chehar Lang ruling
house is now united by marriage to the Ilkhani’s family,
and the tribal camping-grounds having ceased, to a large extent, to
be distinct, there remains less ground for quarrel. As regards the
sub-divisions and clans of the Bakhtiari Lurs, I have drawn up a com
parative table, showing their names and numbers at different periods
in the past half-century. Three previous lists have been published
—by Rawlinson in 1836, by De Bode in 1841, and by Layard
in 1844. In parallel columns with these I have placed a catalogue
Catalogue
of tribes
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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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