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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [858v] (1733/1814)
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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578
PERSIA
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2,475,OOOL, giving a customs revenue of 115,000?. Subsequently,
however, I was fortunate in procuring from two independent
sources the figures of the Persian Custom-house at Ivermanshah
for the year 1889, which ought to be practically identical with the
above, all traffic between Persia and Baghdad passing through that
town, which is the first important place on the Persian side of the
frontier. These figures were in substantial accordance with the
Baghdad estimate as regards imports into Persia, the value of
which they fixed, giving the details in each case, at 232,530?. But
the value of exports from Persia was reduced by them from the
hypothetical 270,000?. to the more modest total of 95,266?., the entire
volume of the transit trade via Baghdad being accordingly 327,79b?. 1
Upon the Baghdad-Teheran line English trade is largely in the
ascendant. The same reasons which keep Russia from the Gulf
keep her from Baghdad; and in so far as she supplies Hamadan and
Kermanshah, it will be via Tabriz from the north. Baghdad, in
fine, fails under the category of the Gulf ports, and must be in
cluded in the zone of indisputable British supremacy.
A certain export and import trade also exists between Baghdad
and Persian Kurdistan, particularly with Sinna, the capital of the
17 Bagh- latter district; although, as it does not always cross a
San Kur- cus fc oms cordon, statistics of its volume are not easy to
distan line procure. There appeared, however, in the c Journal de
la Chambre de Commerce de Constantinople ’ of May 17, 1890, a
copy of a report to the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, in
which the trade figures of Persian Kurdistan for 1889 were given
as follows—Exports: carpets 4,000 Turkish liras^ animals (princi
pally sheep) 10,000, wool 2,000, dressed skins 2,000, butter 10,000,
cereals, raisins, gall nuts, gum tragacanth, almonds, mastic r and
tobacco /7,000; total 105,000 Turkish liras, or 94,500?., of which
39,000 Turkish liras, or 35,100?., were said to be exports passing
into Turkey, and appertain, I conclude, to the route of which I am
speaking. The imports from Turkey into Persian Kurdistan were
given in the same report as: gall nuts 10,000 Turkish liras, un
dressed hides 5,000, stuffs 2,000; total, 17,000 Turkish liras, or
15,300?. The entire volume of Turco-Kurdish trade in this quarter
The credibility of these figures is incidentally but strongly confirmed by
those quoted by Mr. Herbert (F. O. Reports, Annual Series, No. 113) for the year
1885. The imports into Kermanshah from Baghdad were there valued at £218,700.
the exports at £89,780.
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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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