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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [855r] (1726/1814)
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
571
Southern
zone.
12. Bunder
Abbas-
Kerman-
Yezd-
JVleshed
line
to the southern or maritime zone, where the balance swings almost
exclusively and unassailably to the British side. The proximity
ol Bombay, the vast merchant fleet of Great Britain, and
the consistent and intelligible policy that has for long
been pursued in this quarter—almost the only sphere of
Anglo-Persian relations for which this attribute can
honestly be claimed—have given to this country the
trading monopoly of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
and the unchallenged
supply from that base of the towns and villages of Southern and,
in a less degree, of Central Persia. Three ports along this coast
13 . Lingah- —Bunder Abbas, Lingah, and Bushire—receive the main
Hne 1Stan P r °po r tion of Anglo-Indian trade. In 1889, out of
114,396 tons of shipping that entered the harbour of
Bunder Abbas, 104,496 were British; at Lingah the proportion
was 82,780 out of 119,280 tons, and at Bushire 111,745 out of
14 Bu 118,570 tons. The published value of articles exported
shire- or imported to or from Great Britain and India is un-
isfahan reliable as a basis of calculation, because other European
goods, such as French Marseilles sugar and Austrian
glass, are imported, via Bombay, by English merchants in English
boats, whilst at Lingah articles which are imported by sea and then
re-exported by land, or vice versa, are included by the custom
house officials in both tables. 1 Subject to these qualifications, the
value of imports from Great Britain and India for the year 1889
to Bunder Abbas was 338.182/., out of a total from all countries of
353,506/.; the exports to Great Britain and India, 185,258/., out
of a total to all countries of 336,129/. At Lingah the figures were:
imports, 285,156/., out of 589,939/. ; exports, 379,988/., out of
586,147/.— totals which, for the reason above mentioned, I regard
as untrustworthy. At Bushire, imports, 744,018/., out of 790,822/,;
exports, 251,902/., out of 535,076/. Of these ports, Bunder Abbas
is the starting-point of the important caravan line running north
to the large towns of Kerman and Yezd (a distance of about
twenty-four stages from the coast), which are supplied, mainly
from India, with piece goods, prints, and yarn, copper sheets, iron
bars, lead, tin, sugar, tea, dyes, spices, glass, and china; exporting
in return opium, wool, cotton, madder, almonds, pistachio nuts,
1 Thus, pearls appear in the import table of Lingah as £304,957, and in the
export table as £306,667, the same article clearly doing duty twice. Similarly,
specie appears among the imports as £157,812, among the exports as £146,325.
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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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