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'Persia and the Persian Question by the Hon. George Nathaniel Curzon, M.P.' [354] (405/714)
The record is made up of 1 volume (351 folios). It was created in 1892. It was written in English. 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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PERSIA
CHAPTER XII
THE NORTHERN PROVINCES
For the King of the North shall return, and shall set forth a multitude
greater than the former, and shall certainly come after certain years with a great
army and with much xiches.''- Daniel xi. 13.
In Chapter II. I have disembarked the newcomer to Persia at Resht,
or rather at Enzeli, in the south-west corner of the Caspian, and
Mazande- liave conducted him from thence to the capital; in Chapter
Ciiau nd 1 ^ ave begged his company as I ranged over the
whole of Khorasan from the Herat border in the east, to
Astrabad in the west; in the last chapter I have shown him the
plain of Teheran, bounded on the north by the stupendous barrier
of the Elburz Mountains. But on the far side of those mountains,
where their northern skirts descend in wooded flounces to the
Caspian, and between Resht and Astrabad, extends a range of
country, marked by so strange an individuality, and so unlike any
thing else that is to be seen in any other part of Persia, that a
work professing to treat of that country as a whole would err
seriously in omitting any notice of it. Readers who have fol
lowed me so far will have pictured, and have justly pictured Persia,
at least in the winter months, as for the most part a colourless, water
less, and treeless expanse, where wide deserts, with whose monotony
the eye aches, roll their sandy levels to the base of bleak mountains,
whose gaunt ribs protrude like the bones of some emaciated skele
ton through a scanty covering of soil. And yet within a few miles
at the most of this cheerless scene, severed by a single but mighty
mountain range, lies another Persia, so rich in water that malarial
vapours are bred from the stagnant swamps, so abundantly clothed
with trees of the forest, that often a pathway can scarcely be forced
through the intricate jungle, so riotous in colour that the traveller-
can almost awake with the belief that he has been transported in
sleep to some tropical clime. These extraordinary characteristics,
and this amazing change, are exhibited by the northern maritime
provinces of Mazanderan and Gilan. Mazanderan signifies Maz
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The volume is Volume I of George Nathaniel Curzon, Persia and the Persian Question , 2 vols (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1892).
The volume contains illustrations and four maps, including a map of Persia, Afghanistan and Beluchistan [Baluchistan].
The chapter headings are as follows:
- I Introductory
- II Ways and Means
- III From London to Ashkabad
- IV Transcaspia
- V From Ashkabad to Kuchan
- VI From Kuchan to Kelat-i-Nadiri
- VII Meshed
- VIII Politics and Commerce of Khorasan
- IX The Seistan Question
- X From Meshed to Teheran
- XI Teheran
- XII The Northern Provinces
- XIII The Shah - Royal Family - Ministers
- XIV The Government
- XV Institutions and Reforms
- XVI The North-West and Western Provinces
- XVII The Army
- XVIII Railways.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (351 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is divided into chapters. There is a list of contents between ff. 7-10, followed by a list of illustrations, f. 11. There is an index to this volume and Volume II between ff. 707-716 of IOR/L/PS/C43/2.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the first folio bearing text and terminates at 349 (the large map contained in a polyester sleeve loosely inserted between the last folio and the back cover). The numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle and appear in the top right-hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. Foliation anomaly: ff. 151, 151A. Folio 349 needs to be folded out to be read. There is also an original printed pagination sequence. This runs from viii-xxiv (ff. 3-11) and 2-639 (ff. 12-347).
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- IOR/L/PS/20/C43/1
- Title
- 'Persia and the Persian Question by the Hon. George Nathaniel Curzon, M.P.'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1:24, 1:86, 86a:86b, 87:104, 104a:104b, 105:244, 244a:244d, 245:272, 272a:272b, 273:304, 304a:304b, 305:306, 306a:306b, 307:326, 326a:326b, 327:338, 338a:338b, 339:344, 344a:344b, 345:354, 354a:354b, 355:394, 394a:394b, 395:416, 416a:416b, 417:420, 420a:420b, 421:520, 520a:520d, 521:562, 562a:562b, 563:564, 564a:564b, 565:606, 606a:606b, 607:642, i-r:i-v, back-i
- Author
- Curzon, George Nathaniel, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
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- Public Domain