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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [833r] (1682/1814)
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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COMMERCE AND TRADE
531
trading via the Black Sea and the Cancasus; and inaugurating ^t
the dawn of the fourteenth century the overland route from Trebi-
zond which is utilised to this day. In these hands tor the most part
remained the carrying trade between East and West, until in the
last years of the fifteenth century an event occurred which has had
a prodigious and almost unique effort in history, has revolutionised
the balance of power, and has rewritten the map of the world. In
November 1497, Vasco da Gama, the Portuguese navigator, doubled
the Cape of Good Hope, opened a new waterway to India, and
bequeathed to the Portuguese a brilliant century of riches and
fame.
The new century was not two years old when the successful
discoverer reappeared in command of a powerful fleet to appropriate
what he had hitherto only explored, backed by a Papal
f s 0 C en- guese Bull which conferred on King Emanuel of Portugal the
dcney p r0 nd title of ‘ Lord of the Navigation, Conquests, and
Trade of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia, and India.’ Tristan da Cunha,
Anthony de Saldanha, Francis, and above all Alfonso de Albu
querque, continued the work of forcibly planting the Portuguese
flag upon every suitable point of vantage, and of giving to fire and
the sword all who resisted the victorious soldiers of Chust. The
proceedings of Albuquerque in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
have already been
traced in the chapter dealing with that sea. By the time of his
death in December, 1525, the Portuguese dominion had grown
into an empire. In the middle of the century it was at the height
of its renown. No vessel was suffered to navigate the Indian
Ocean without a Portuguese permit. An absolute monopoly was
rigidly enforced by the conquerors. From Japan to the Red Sea
fluttered their unresisted flags; and while the cruelties of viceroys,
the insolence and corruption of minor agents, and the fanaticism of
those who thought to combine the quest of lucre with the cham
pionship of the Faith, were already undermining the fabric so
arrogantly reared, rumours of their unbroken triumph rang through
Europe, stirring keen chords of emulation in some hearts, but
striking terror into the mass.
Nowhere was the stimulus of competition more profoundly felt
than in England, then trembling on the doorstep between the Middle
’English. ^g eS ailcl til6 NeW ^ r ° rld - Yet nowhere f° r a time WaS
initiative the common acceptance of Portuguese monopoly more
humbly acquiesced in, or the idea of fighting her with her own
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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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