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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [734v] (1485/1814)
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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406 PERSIA
as bis deputy. The second section, starting from Deyir, and con
taining the petty ports or, rather, maritime villages, of Kangun
(Congoon), Tahiri, Shivu, Chiru, and Charak, and the islands of
Sheikh Shuaib, Hindarabi, and Kenn or Keis, is administered on
behalf of the Governor of Shiraz by his chief minister, the Kawam-
el-Mulk. Of the above-mentioned places Kangun was once a trading
port of renown, having been a Portuguese settlement, and still
containing the ruins of the
factory
An East India Company trading post.
built by that people. In the
first half of this century the Arab sheikh of Kangun was a chief
of some authority, and ruled over a considerable tract; but the
last occupant of the post, having quarrelled with the Persian
government, was seized and strangled in 1880, and his district
passed under the central control. Kangun justifies its ancient
pre-eminence by the possession of an excellent roadstead, with
good anchorage. Tahiri is interesting as being the site of the
ruins of the once famous emporium of Siraf, which shared with
Ormuz the mercantile supremacy of the Gulf. The island of Kenn
or Keis was for a time, under Arab rule, after the destruction of
Siraf, the centre of Gulf trade and shipping, 1 and the ruins of a
large Arab city called Harira are still visible on its northern side.
This, too, was one of the places where the English established
a military station (afterwards abandoned) in their warfare with the
pirates in the early part of the present century. Arab authority
throughout this region has been successfully disintegrated by the
Government, and has yielded to centralisation supported by guns.
Approaching the more important ports of the Gulf in its eastern
portion, we now again touch the jurisdiction of the Saad-el-Mulk,
Re°ion of extends over towns and islands, from which is
historic extracted a considerable annua] revenue. The former in-
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(Sif), and Task; the latter the well-known names of Kishm and
Ormuz, and the less known Larak, Henjam, and Sirri. Here we
are brought into contact with a region that can boast historic
memories, and has experienced many shocks of fortune. Situated
1 It is the Kisi of Marco Polo and the Kis or Kish (not to be confused with
Kishm) of Benjamin of Tudela (1160-1173 a.d.), who described it as the great
emporium ‘ to which Indian merchants bring their commodities, and the traders
of Mesopotamia, Yemen and Persia all sorts of silk and purple cloths, flax, cotton,
hemp, mash, wheat, barley, millet, rye, and all sorts of comestibles and pulse,
which articles form objects of exchange. Those from India export great quantities
of spices.’ Vide a note by Yule in his Marco Polo, vol. i. p. 66.
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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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