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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [760r] (1536/1814)
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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I have now completed the survey of the northern coast of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, and have exhibited the Persian Government as
exercising along its shores and over its islands a more
extended and emphatic authority than at almost any
previous epoch during the last 300 years. This authority is only
enforced at the cost of a good deal of discontent, the result of
corruption, misgovernment, and oppression ; but it is not likely
to be seriously disputed in the future, owing to the want of
cohesion among the subject races, and to their inability to make
any stand even against Persian regulars. The Oriental, moreover,
is familiar from long experience with old orders yielding place to
new, while his creed disposes him to a placid acceptance of the
doctrine that God fulfils himself in many ways. He shrugs his
shoulders and submits ; it is only in cases of outrageous provoca
tion that he actually rebels. Though it is upon the opposite coast
of the Gulf that the responsibility of the British Government as
guardian of the peace is chiefly called into action, yet disputes
seldom occur, even on the northern side, in which the friendly
offices of the British Resident at Bushire are not appealed to on
one side or the other; and he is thereby enabled to exercise an
influence which is both honourable to the nation that he represents
and useful to the power to whom he is accredited.
In crossing to the Arab coast of Muscat, the mention of the
internal politics and domestic broils of the reigning family of
History of Oman, which the description of Gwadur has elicited,
Oman leads me to preface my account of that coast and its
capital by a brief resume of the recent history of this still
independent Arab kingdom. 1 The Portuguese, in the eastward
1 I have compiled the following brief bibliography of Oman : C. Dellon,
Voyage avx hides Orientales, 2 vols., 1685 ; E. C. Ross, ‘ Annals of Oman,’ Journ.
of As. Soc. of Bengal, vol. xliii.; C. Niebuhr, Description deVArabic, 1784; Travels
through Arabia, 2 vols., 1792; Vicenzo, History of Seyd Said of Muscat, &c., trans
lated by Sheikh Mansur, 1819* Major D. Price, History of Ara,bia, 1824; A.
Crichton, History of Arabia, 2 vols., 1830; Lieutenant J. R. Wellsted, Travels in
Arabia, 2 vols., 1838; A. Gold, Journal of Bombay Geog. Soc., 1847; Rev. C. Forster,
Historical Geography of Arabia, 2 vols., 1844 ; A. Caussin de Perceval, Essai sur
V Hist air e des Arabes, 3 vols., 1847-8 ; Selection from Records of Bombay Govern-
ment, No. 24, 1856; Salil ibn Razik, History of the Imams and Seyids of Oman y
a.d. 661-1856, translated by Rev. G. P. Badger (Hakluyt Society), 1870; A.
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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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