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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [678r] (1372/1814)
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 SOUTH-WESTERN PROVINCES
325
Sheikh Haji Jabir Khan into that place, rewarding his complai
sance with the official title of Governor. Sheikh Thamer, it ma^
be imagined, was too prominent a figure to please the Persian
Government, which, under Mohammed Shah, was beginning to
show a very bellicose activity; and, having put himsell out of
court by harbouring the fugitive Bakhtiari chieftain, Mohammed
Taki Khan, in 1840, he was proclaimed a rebel, and was compelled
to fly into Turkish territory, his nephew Paris being nominated to
succeed him. Sheikh Thamer was the last powerful chief of the
Al-bu-Nasir or ruling family of Pellahieh, which has since then
sunk into a secondary position, while the star of the Muhaisen tiibe
rose in its place. Sheikh Thamer’s descendants are still, however,
in possession both of Fellahieh and of Deh Mullah, a further Ka b
settlement more to the east.
Haji Jabir Khan, who was a very shrewd and calculating indi
vidual, and who saw that the only practicable policy was to humour
the growing power of the Persians, remained in possession
Muhaisen of Mohammerah, with the enjoyment of a Persian title,
sheikhs until llig deatll in October 1881. He was then succeeded
by his younger son, Sheikh Mizal Khan, alike in the chieftainship
of the tribe, and, by favour of the Shah, in the governorship of
Mohammerah. The sheikh has since been yearly confirmed in this
post, receiving from the Governor-General of Arabistan the annual
klielat, or robe of honour, which in Persian public life is both the
official testamur of reappointment, and the signal for a becoming
monetary return from the presentee. Along with this, in 1889, he
was granted the sonorous title of Muazz-es-Sultaneh, for which he
was obliged to pay a proportionate fee.
The sheikh resides in a fine riverside house on the Shat-el-
Arab, at a spot called Feilieh, about one mile above Mohammerah,
. ... the Persian flag floating above his roof. Immediately in
Mizal front of the mansion a gun is planted on the river s edge,
and there attendants are ever watching to return the
salute which is invariably given to their master by vessels of the
British India Company in acknowledgment of a service rendered
by his father several years ago to one of the company s ships, when
attacked by a band of Arab robbers. No sooner has the ship’s
gun spoken than the answer booms from Sheikh Mizal s batteiy,
and I doubt if he would surrender the compliment for one half of
his revenues. An elder brother, named Mohammed Khan, was
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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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