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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [736v] (1489/1814)
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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resistance, seized the Sheikh, and deported him to Teheran, where,
in 1889, he was still a prisoner. A barrack was then bnilt at
Lingah, and a detachment of 200 Persian regulars was quartered
of local antipathy at the time. But the inhabitants of these coast
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towns are very poor and have no means of organised resistance,
besides being sad cowards into the bargain, and having a mortal
fear of a soldier, even of a Persian soldier, at the butt-end of a
muzzle-loading gun. Accordingly they soon settled down to
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the new order of things, and the Persian garrison of Lingah had
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he professed the most friendly sentiments, and gave me a letter to
his deputy at Bunder Abbas. He was reported to be fairly popular
with the people, having quiet manners, and being perhaps less
roguishly disposed than the majority of Persian officials.
Great Britain is represented at Lingah by a
native agent
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jolly old Arab, who came rowing out in a boat flying the Union
Jack, and whose sons, from frequent contact with English vessels
and officers, could speak a little of our tongue. 'j' H 'c
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island ofKishm, 1 or Jazirat-el-Towilah (i.e. long island), which seems
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Kishm now separated therefrom by a channel sixty miles long, and
from three to thi rteen in width. The island is fifty-four miles in
length, and varies from nine to thirty-two in breadth. In its centre
is the village of Brukth or Urukth, the Oaracta of Nearchus and
Arrian, who says that at the time of the Greek admiral’s visit the
island produced corn, vines, and fruit of all description. At the
period of the greatness of Ormuz it supplied the latter with fruit,
vegetables, and water; and the aid of water still renders a large
portion of its soil amenable to the cultivation of grain, melons,
grapes, etc., while large date groves are to be found m the interior.
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century. A more moderate calculation fixes the number as seventy,
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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)
- Physical characteristics
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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