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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [704r] (1424/1814)
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 KAEUN RIVER
359
(vol i P- I 98 )- In 1850 Loftus described it as a small Arab
village' of forty houses, entirely supported by the traffic of the
ferry which is maintained across the various rivers at this spot; 1
and his account holds good of the present time. The hamlet is
situated a little way inland on the projecting tongue of soil
between the streams of the Shuteit and Ab-i-Gerger, and on the
right bank of the latter. It is entirely surrounded, however, by
the ruins of a large and important city, which were for the first
time examined by Sir H. Layard in 1842, and found to belong to
three periods, Kaianian, Sassanian, and Arab, 2 being identified by
him with the remains of the early Persian city Rustam-Kowadh
and the Arab Askeri-Mukrem. 3 At the time of my visit the old
bricks were being utilised, by orders of the Nizam-es-Sultaneh, to
construct a fort and telegraph station on the bank of the Shuteit,
the Government having decided to establish telegraphic commu
nication between Shushter and Mohammerah. These ruins, the
physical surroundings of Bund-i-Kir, and the significance of its
name, unite in eloquent testimony to a period, long dead and for
gotten, when this wilderness blossomed like a rose, and when busy
peoples, great public works, and a diligent cultivation beautified
the now silent banks of the triple stream.
Layard represented the colour of the three rivers which here
converge as being conspicuously different, that of the Ab-i-Diz
. being; very dark, from the rich alluvial mould through
confluents winch if flows, the Shuteit, or Karun proper, being ot a
dull reddish hue, and the Gerger canal a milky white. I did not
observe this difference, which is probably more 01 less noticeab e
according to the state of the waters. At the point of confluence
the first-named river appeared to me to be about 80 yards wide,
the second 150 yards, and the third 60 yards, theii united
volumes occupying a bed about 300 yards in width. .
The Ab-i-Diz descends from distant sources in the mighty
Zagros range. What is really its parent stream no two maps
TiieAh-i- have hitherto agreed in indicating. Major Sawyer’s.
Diz explorations, however, in 1890, have proved that there
are two main streams, one flowing from near Burujird and draining
Silakhor, the other draining upper Feraidan and passing Baznon
Hence he calls them the Ab-i-Burujird and Ab-i-Baznoi. Here,
Travels and Researches, p. 290. 2 Journal of the R. 9. S„ vol. xvi. p. 63.
3 Early Adventures, vol. ii. p. 28.
i
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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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