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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [705v] (1427/1814)
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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362
PERSIA
by the two streams of the Shuteit and the Gerger, which separate
at Shnshter just as they reunite at Bund-i-Kir. I was conducted
by the left or westernmost track, which is a full eight farsakhs, or
thirty-two miles, in length, and is called Beni Hasan from the
name of the Arab tribe encamped upon it. The middle road is
called Beni Kaid Hasan for a similar reason, and is no doubt
shorter, but appears to be impassable after rain. The easterly
track, which was taken by Colonel Bell, strikes across to the right
to Dowletabad, or Beni Hand, a distance of eleven miles, where it
touches the right bank of the Gerger Canal, and follows the latter
more or less closely to Shushter, twenty-one miles further on.
Sir H. Layard relates that in 1842, Selby and himself were
confronted immediately outside Bund-i-Kir by a huge black-
maned lion. 1 It was a curious coincidence that soon after
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starting we heard a lion roar a little way off. My
guide, who was walking in front, informed me at the same moment
that my horse was so much accustomed to go in advance, that he
would himself facilitate my progress by dropping to the rear; an
act of friendly consideration on his part for which I shall ever
remember the Arab. The entire country between Bund-i-Kir and
Shushter was crowded with game. Wild fowl of every description,
mallaid, teal, snipe, plover of two kinds, francolin, sand-grouse,
pigeons, jackal all these I saw within easy shot in the course of
my ride ; and a sportsman might without doubt make a large and
varied bag. The fertility of the soil is beyond conception; and in
the spring-time Layard has depicted the island as ‘ clothed with
the most luxuriant vegetation, and enamelled with flowers of the
most brilliant hues, the grass being so high that it reached to the
belly of a horse. 5 2 In winter there is no verdure, and the greater
part of the ground is allowed to waste in jungle and swamp ; no
sign of cultivation being visible till I reached the Arab encamp
ment of Beni Hasan, about twelve miles from Bund-i-Kir.
There the entire population was abroad and astir, ploughing with
hoise§, mules, buffaloes, bullocks, and even donkeys, and scattering
the seed the moment the rude wooden share had scraped the
Uarly Adventures, vol. ii. p. 353. Lions are not uncommon in the jungle and
brushwood bordering on the rivers, particularly the little-known and unexplored
Ab-i-Diz. For some interesting remarks upon their haunts and peculiarities,
the same work, vol. i. pp. 439-447; and De Bode, Travels in Lnristan, vol. ii.
- ) ‘ ' ’ 2 Early Adventures, vol. ii. p. 346.
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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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