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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [854r] (1724/1814)
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 ANI) TRADE
569
the valiant totals published at St. Petersburg, but they are con
firmed by local authority. Since the opening of the Transcaspian
Railway, however, this route has lost much of its importance,
eastern Khorasan, Meshed, and north-west Afghanistan being now
almost entirely fed by the aid of General Annenkoff’s line. Ac
cordingly, the Gez returns show a marked decline, and the British
native agent
Non-British agents affiliated with the British Government.
at Astrabad gave the figures of total native and Russian
imports as 51,900L, of which 19,090k were Russian, and of total
exports as 20,000k, or a total trade of 71,900k As regards the
Meshed trade, I have shown in a previous chapter that the value of
British goods imported into Meshed by the long overland route
via Trebizond, Tabriz, and Teheran was in 1889 23,429k ; and of
Anglo-Indian goods imported via Bunder Abbas, 60,871k ; while
the value of Russian imports in the same period, mainly via Ashk-
abad and Kuchan, was 110,408k I showed further that, in view of
the marked advantages enjoyed by Russia over England in this
quarter, her superiority may be expected to increase rapidly, the
better quality and greater favour of English goods being unable to
compete with a cheaper article imported from only a quarter of the
distance. 1 The general commercial ascendency of Russia in Khorasan
is, indeed, a fact which no one with a knowledge of the country and
its markets can dispute, and which an inspection of the map at
once explains. The utmost, as I have argued, that British com
merce can there do is to concentrate its attention upon the southern
or Anglo-Indian avenues of ingress, and to urge the improvement
and greater security of the roads from the Gulf, at present in paiG
in an abominable condition, and the appointment of British Consulai
officers at Bunder Abbas, Kerman, and Yezd, so as to facilitate and
extend the ingress of Bombay trade.
From Meshed a transit trade in Anglo-Indian wares, but more
especially in tea, is conducted to Khiva and Bokhara. Out of
Transit 123,714k worth of Chinese green tea imported into Meshed
9°Meshed from Bunder Abbas in 1889, 122,857k was in transit to.
to Khiva ^} ie Khanates. It is scarcely credible, but it is true, that,
Bokhara owing to the exorbitant dues charged by the Amir of
1 Before going to press I am afforded the opportunity (Jan. 1892) of confirm
ing my own prediction by the figures of General Maclean’s second Khorasan report
(F O Annual Series, No. 976) for 1890-1. He shows that while Anglo-Indian
imports into Khorasan have increased £71,500 in the year, Russian imports have
increased £97,190; and that Russian piece goods are rapidly ousting British,
chintzes.
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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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