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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [734r] (1484/1814)
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
PERSIAN GULF
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
405
but this design was not executed. 1 Later in the present century
it has possessed a peculiar interest for Englishmen in having been,
on two occasions, the scene of the first act in the drama of Anglo-
Persian war. When the army of Mohammed Shah advanced
against Herat in 1837, and the protests of the British Minister were
contemptuously ignored, an Anglo-Indian force was despatched to
the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
; and Kharak was occupied in June 1838, the
British
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
being at the same time moved here from Bushire.
The Persians retired from Herat, after ignominious failure in the
siege, in September 1838 ; but, owing to the shifty character of
their subsequent diplomacy, the island was not evacuated till March
1842. The Herat fever of the Persian Government was again the
signal, fourteen years later, for the reoccupation of the island. In
defiance of the agieement of January 18o3, a Persian army
marched against Herat in March 1856. The city was'forced by
famine to surrender in October of the same year. War was de
clared between Great Britain and Persia in November. Troops
were landed upon Kharak in December; and the military operations
ensued, both at Borazjun and Mohammerah, to which I have else
where alluded. Upon the cessation of hostilities, after the publi
cation of the Treaty of Paris (March 1857), Kharak was again
evacuated, and has since remained in Persian hands. The Russians
fiom time to time discover a mare s nest in the rumoured cession
of the island to England ; but a momentary spleen, which can only
have been engendered in complete oblivion of the too faithful
parallel of Ashurada on the Caspian, is soon discredited by the
absurdity of the canard. At present Kharak contains, with the
exception of a good supply of water, nothing more interesting
than some curious underground aqueducts, which were found by
the Dutch on their arrival, and are undoubtedly of ancient origin.
South-east of Bushire we come upon a strip of coast-line about
200 miles in total length, which is under the jurisdiction of the
Dashtistan Crovemoi of Slmaz. The first section, containing the
Kangun sma11 l 30rt of Bunder Dashti, and the district of
Dashtistan (i.e. Land of the Plains), was, in 1888. placed
by the Amin-es-Sultan under Prince Nowzer, but later on was
given to the Governor of Shiraz, and administered by a serti'p acting
Malcolm, as his rival Sir H. Jones said (Mission to Persia, vol. i. p 138)
had a furious passion for the possession of an island in the Gulf. He wanted
Lord Wellesley to purchase Kishm; and he twice tried to get hold of Kharak
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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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- 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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