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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [753v] (1523/1814)
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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428
PERSIA
V
conflict between a Portuguese fleet, that was blockading Jask, and
four English vessels 1 off Cape J ask, which on being renewed on
December 28, resulted in the defeat of the Portuguese, but also in
the death of the English commander, Andrew Shilling, who, being
slain in the engagement, was buried at Jask. After the battle the
English ships c despatched their businesse at Jasques. 5 2 The result
of this successful engagement, and of the growing friendly relations
between the English and Persian courts, was that in 1619 the
East India Company founded their first Persian
factory
An East India Company trading post.
and
erected a fort at Jask. I incline to the opinion that when, three
years later, they obtained so much better a position at Bunder
Abbas, they must have vacated this station.
Jask possesses a very different modern interest, as the point of
convergence of the land and marine wires of the Indo-European
Telegraph Department between India and the Gulf.
Indo-
European Here the duplicate indiarubber and gutta-percha cable
Telegraph A . ° L
irom Bushire, a distance of 499 miles, comes up from the
sea; and its place is henceforward taken by a double overland wire
to Kurrachi, a distance of 684 miles. A single submarine gutta
percha cable is, however, also continued to Kurrachi, and forms a
section of the through cable line from Kurrachi to Eao. Origin
ally the cable was laid from Gwadur to Cape Musandim, but in
consequence of the abominable climate there encountered and of
other reasons, it was shifted in 1869 to Jask and Henjam. The
telegraph station and a few buildings surrounding it are situated
at the extremity of a low spit of land or cape projecting into the sea ;
the native village and fort of Jask, now in ruins, being -tee. miles
to the north, at a distance of one mile and a half from the shore.
When the Indian naval station was withdrawn in 1879 from
Basiduh (Bassadore) on Kishm Island, the company of
sepoys
Term used in English to refer to an Indian infantryman. Carries some derogatory connotations as sometimes used as a means of othering and emphasising race, colour, origins, or rank.
,
Indian 100 strong, who had been posted there, was moved to
station y Oask, and barracks were erected by the Indian Govern
ment for their accommodation. At that time the
promontory ol Jask was unoccupied, save by the English tele-
giaph station, and its ownership was not strictly determined, the
tiibes along the coast and in the interior being Beluchis, who claimed
independence, and the Persian authority being* as yet precariously
They were the ‘ London,’ ‘ Hart,’ ‘ Roebuck,’ and ‘ Eagle.’ W. Baffin, who
was killed at Kishm a little more than a year later, sailed in this fleet, which
left Gravesend in February 1619. ibid., lib. v. cap. 16.
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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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