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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [849r] (1714/1814)
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
5o9
chapter on the Resources of Persia, furnished some accounts of the
indigenous products and manufactures of the country, the surplus
of which, after feeding, sustaining, or clothing its people, consti
tutes the bulk of his exports to foreign lands. I will not here
recapitulate that information, but will content myself with present
ing a tabulated summary of the value of the articles so exported,
referring my readers for an explanation of the individual items to
the chapter before mentioned. The following is an approximate
statement of the value of Persian exports for the year ending Sep
tember 30, 1889, my impression being that the figures, where they
err, do so on the side of depreciation ; and that the totals, both
of bulk and value, may be reckoned at a rather higher figure :—
Exports from Persia for year ending September 30 , 1889 .
Value in
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
j
Value in
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
Opium
1,900,000
Hides (cow and ox)
50,000
Cotton (raw) .
500,000
Calico prints
10,000
Wool (unwashed)
64,000
Rice .....
1,000,000
Silk (raw)
1,300,000
Turquoises ....
20,000
Silk (cocoons, &c.) .
50,000
Wine .....
1,000
Asafoetida
280,000
Horses ....
60,000
Gall nuts .
100,000
Cattle .....
10,000
Gum tragacanth
100,000
Dates .....
25,000
Leeches .
1,000
Drugs .....
30,000
Tobacco (tumbaJi) .
300,000
Dyeing and colouring
Tobacco (for pipes
and
materials
90,000
cigarettes) .
50,000
Grain (wheat and barley) .
200,000
Carpets .
300,000
Provisions and stores .
20,000
Shawls
35,000
Rose water ....
50,000
Raisins .
.
160,000
Woollen goods .
100,000
Dried fruits, pistachio
Salt .....
10,000
nuts, &c.
250,000
Spices
100,000
Saffron
.
60,000
Seeds
26,000
Skins (goat and sheep),
Sundries ....
160,000
untanned
.
20,000
Skins (goat and sheep),
Total
7,442,000
tanned.
10,000
1
Calculated at the
then
rate of exchange (thirty-five Izrans to the
pound) this total is equivalent to a sum of about 2,126,000/.
I now turn to the imports, the totals of which I shall merely
enumerate here, postponing for the moment the question of British
Character an( ^ Russian competition and the relative shares of the two
of imports na ti 0 ns. Richly endowed though Persia be with a wide
diversity of natural products and manufactures, it will have been
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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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