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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [753r] (1522/1814)
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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PERSIAN GULF
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adoption of measures for the greater security and conveuience of
this most important trade avenue into Persia.
Some fifty miles to the east of Bunder Abbas the river Minau
(lit. muddy water) flows into the sea, past a town and fort of that
name, containing some old Portuguese guns, situated on
a hill about fifteen miles inland. Native craft run up
and down a creek communicating with the sea, and do a trade in
grain and dried fruits, the customs of the port, called Sif, being
farmed for the comparatively large figure of 3,500
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
. Minau,
with its shady palm-groves, is the summer retreat of the parboiled
citizens of Ormuz and Bunder Abbas, and has elicited by its
picturesque and reposeful scenery the encomiums of such travellers
as have passed over the fiery surrounding deserts. The river on
which it stands is identified with the Anamis of Arrian, where
Nearchus put in on the eighteenth day after leaving the Indus, and
hauled up his ships on shore for repair, while he marched inland
himself and visited the camp of Alexander. Here we take leave
of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, and passing through the straits of Ormuz,
round the gloomy basaltic peaks of Gape Musandim, emerge into
the Indian Ocean.
The next calling-point of the steamer is the promontory of
Jask (Pas Jashak, sometimes written Jasques), 130 miles from
Bunder Abbas. So far as I can ascertain, Jask is the
site of the first mercantile settlement made by the East
India Company on Persian soil. In 1616, in pursuit of the advice
of Mr. Pichard Steele, who in 1615 had journeyed through Persia,
the directors sent a ship from Surat to Jask ‘ to make the first
offer of a residence, and to get a kind of a possession.’ 1 This
vessel, the 4 James,’ commanded by Alexander Childe, took out
Edward Connock, the first agent of the company in Persia, who,
in his reports to the board of directors, spoke favourably of his
reception by the local governor, living at Mogustan, and of the
prospects of trade. 2 Childe wrote of Jask: ‘It is the worthiest
place for fish in all the Indies,’ 3 a reputation, I may add, which
it still retains. On December 17, 1620, occurred an indecisive
Jask
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1 Vide letter from Sir Thomas Roe, ambassador from James I. to Jehangir, the
Great Mogul. Purchas’ Pilgrims, lib. iv. cap. 17. Sir T. Roe himself earnestly
dissuaded the venture (Calendar of State Papers, East Indies, vol. i., No. 1176).
2 State Papers, vol. i., Nos. 1179, 1181, 1182, 1186, 1188.
3 Purchas’ Pilgrims, lib. v. Ap. II.
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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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