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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [763v] (1543/1814)
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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ejected, retired to tlie interior, whence spntterings of revolt were
occasionally heard till Seyid Turki’s death, and again broke into
flame after his son’s accession. Seyid Tnrki, though not a vigorous
was a mild and liberal-minded ruler; he understood how to manage
the Arab tribes under his control; and he remained consistently
loyal to the British Government, by whom he was made a G.C.S.I.
in 1886, and confirmed in his tenure of a throne which he had, on
the whole, deserved, by an assurance of active support against un
provoked aggression. In 1873 Sir Bartle Frere concluded a treaty
with him, consolidating the previous engagements for the suppres
sion of the slave-trade, abolishing all public slave-markets in his
dominions, and emancipating all slaves who entered his territories.
At the same time his brother of Zanzibar having taken advantage
of the disturbances in Oman to decline any longer to pay his
annual tribute, the British Government, in return for the abolition
of the free traffic in slaves between the African coast and the island
of Zanzibar, charged itself with the payment of the annual subsidy
to Muscat, and to this day hands over to the Sultan the sum of
7,200
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
a month, or a little over 6,000Z. a year. When
Seyid Turki died in 1888, his second son, Seyid Feysul bin Turki ?
though the son of an African slave, and as black as a Nubian in
colour, succeeded without opposition to the throne. Among Arab
' f tribes there is no law or custom of primogeniture, and no prescrip
tion in favour of the eldest son. Within the limits of the reigning
T ^ 1 family might is right; the strongest hand seizes the sceptre and
wields it. There being considerable doubt, however, as to the
ability of Seyid Feysul to hold his own, he had not at the time of
my visit been formally recognised by the British Government. In
October 1888 he conducted an unsuccessful expedition against an
old pretender to the throne, Ibrahim bin Kais, who still plays the
game of rebellion from time to time while his uncle, the veteran
Abdul Aziz, after a long-repose in the interior, suddenly resumed
activity in 1889. The latter’s rebellion was still undecided while
I was at Muscat, but afterwards ended in the withdrawal of the
pretender from the country. Seyid Feysul had the double ad-
w vantage of youth and possession on his side. He is now (1892)
; y only twenty-eight years of age; and if he exhibits sufficient
^ • tenac ^y to justify the support of the British Government, may
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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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- Public Domain