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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [865r] (1746/1814)
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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BRITISH AND RUSSIAN POLICY IN PERSIA 591
S'’ ? Mohammed Shah - then at Astrabad, Gez,
ed-i-Sei, Shahrud, and thence eastwards, culminating in the
already chromcled appointment in 1889 of a Consul-General at
Meshed Where it was impossible or unwise to station an official
representative, emissaries m mufti, usually Russian-born Armenians
and persons engaged m trade, were employed to conduct the same
process; and thus gradually was spread a network of intrigue
throughout Khorasan disseminating far and wide a sense of the
tremendous power of the Northern Colossus, and a skilfully ex
aggerated notion of the benefits to be derived from Russian rule.
e impression so created was fortified by the Sclat arising from
the fa 1 of Samarkand, the capture of Khiva, and the subjugation
o o -vliara, names that were typical to the Eastern mind of the
power and traditions of the hitherto unhumbled Orient. Each of
these triumphs was further regarded as a blow to the prestige of
Great Britain, whose name had not stood high in Central Asia ever
since the Kabul disaster and Jugdulluk massacre of 1842; the
rivalry between the two Powers being a subject of daily discussion
m the bazaars and coffee-shops of the East, where a sounder grasp
of the situation is, on the whole, more likely to be met with than
on the benches of the House of Commons. Next in order came
the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-8, the result of which was again
a triumph for Russia, all the more notable in its effect upon Asiatic
peoples that the vanquished combatant was Turkey, the traditional
enemy of Persia, and the greatest Mohammedan power in Asia.
Finally, upon the top of these successes came the Turkoman
campaign of 1880-1, in which Skobeleff, in order to magnify his
Conquest victory, contrived a massacre of those dreaded, but not
^H ko " rea % formidable, Borderers, that echoed like a thunder
clap through the surrounding nations. In addition to
the prestige acquired by this conquest, troops of released Persian
prisoners, returning to their homes, confirmed the sentimental
kudos already accruing from the captives of Khiva and Bokhara ;
and, while they showed the gall marks of Tekke chains, extolled
the clemency of the conqueror to whom they owed their freedom.
The practical advantages resulting from the annexation of Turko-
mania have since been both consolidated and infinitely multiplied
by the construction of the Transcaspian Railway, to the effect of
which upon Persia and the Persian Question I must devote a
passing paragraph.
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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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