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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [873r] (1762/1814)
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
607
period making a corresponding advance ; yet, first under Sir A.
Nicolson, wlio fiom 1885 to 1888 acted as charge d’affaires, and
still more under bis accomplished and capable successors, Sir Henry
Drummond Wolff and Sir Frank Lascelles, there has during the
past six years been a striking recrudescence of British activity
and power, which has placed this country in a position of greater
authority at Teheran than its representatives have exercised at any
time since the death of Fath Ali Shah. Of the consequences of
this recovered influence I shall presently speak.
The history of Anglo-Persian relations in this century falls, so
to speak, into four parallel columns, according as it is concerned
Fourfold with the departments of diplomacy, military adminis-
division tration, commerce, and the electric telegraph. I have
summarised the contents of the first-named category above, and
will not presume to repeat at greater length what has been said
with the fullest knowledge and authority by Rawlinson. The
history of British connection with the Persian army has been
related in the chapter upon the latter institution. The history of
Anglo-Persian trade has similarly been treated in my discussion of
Persian commerce. There remains for me only, in order to com
plete the picture, to say something of the steps by which the electric
telegraph was introduced by Englishmen into Persia, and of the
effect which that
agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
has had both upon the country itself and
upon international relations. The main interest of such an in
quiry will be found to be, not scientific, but political; nor, had
the consequences that have ensued partaken only or principally of
the former character, should I have j udged them worthy of extended
notice in this place.
It was from no special desire to bring Persia into telegraphic
connection with Europe, nor with any direct intention of conferring
Indo upon her the enormous benefits that have resulted from
European the introduction of that system into the country, that
graphic sprang the first proposals for so startling an innovation
^Turkish as a through wire from the western frontier of the Shah’s
line dominions to the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
. It was her geographical
position that made Persia the fortunate recipient of this not wholly
disinterested boon. Had her territories not lain upon the high
lasting disgrace of Khartum, the ‘bolt’ from the Murghab—all these incidents
rang like a trumpet blast through the whispering-galleries of the East, and were
interpreted as presages of an impending min.
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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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