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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [788v] (1593/1814)
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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PERSIA
460
ports. As lias been well but cynically said, 4 The leading tenets
of Wahab’s faith seem to have been those common to prophets,
namely, to proclaim himself and the Unity of the Creator, and to
kill or plunder his fellow creatures.’ It was in 1787 that the first
mention of the Wahabis is found in the Bombay Records; but the
British Government, though taking strong measures against the
piratical tribes whom their preaching had incited to plunder, was
careful not to involve itself in hostile proceedings against the
Wahabi Amir himself. Other nations, more intimately involved,
undertook the task of crushing the schismatic upstart; and by
1818 Ibrahim
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, marching from Egypt, had captured the
Wahabi capital and razed it to the ground, had sent the Wahabi
Amir in chains to Constantinople, where he was decapitated, and
had apparently stamped the heretical authority out of existence.
Such, however, was the vitality either of the creed or of the
dominion, that within a few years Turki, the son of the deceased
Amir, had expelled the Egyptian governor, was proclaimed Sultan
of Nejd, recovered all and more than his father’s territories, and,
by the judicious payment of a small tribute to the Egyptian
Khedive, retained the throne till he was murdered in 1831. His
son and successor, Eeysul, upon succeeding to the throne, was at
first rash enough to repudiate the Egyptian Suzerainty ; where
upon Nejd was again invaded, El Hasa and Katif temporarily
occupied by Egyptian troops, and himself banished to Egypt. In
1843 he managed again to return, and from then till his death in
1865 continued to rule in Nejd, and to push his sovereignty and
claims to tribute far and wide among’ the surrounding tribes.
Foui times in this period the vigorous remonstrances of Great
Britain, and the apparition of a naval armament off the threatened
ports, whether of Bahrein or Muscat, were required to compel the
retirement of the aggressive Sultan, not, however, without the
extortion of a tribute in the case of Muscat, though not in that of
Bahrein.
His son, Abdullah bin Feysul, who had long acted as'Regent,
succeeded him in 1805, and entered into an engagement with
Great Britain not to molest the Arab tribes under British protection,
particularly those of Muscat, but to rest content with the receipt
of tribute from. the latter. A prolonged fight ensued between
Abdullah and his brother Saud, in which the latter was at first
successful, but in which-Abdullah, flying to Turkey, invoked that
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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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