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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [763r] (1542/1814)
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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THE
PERSIAN GULF
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
437
possessed a considerable fleet which, according to Fraser in 1821,
consisted, in addition to native vessels, of five fine ships, including
the ‘ Shah Alain,’ a frigate of fifty guns, and the 4 Caroline,’ a
frigate of forty guns; and, according to Stocqueler, ten years
later, of twelve large vessels, including a seventy-four gun ship,
and a frigate of forty-four guns, both of British build. His
revenue was about 80,000L a year, one-fourth of which was derived
from the slave trade, before he abolished the latter by agreement
with the English.
Seyid Said bequeathed the two portions of his dominions,
Muscat and Zanzibar, to his eldest and fourth sons respectively;
Muse-it the impossibility of governing the two territories
and without some more definite agreement, suggested to Lord
Canning—to whom, on the old man’s death in 1856, the
inevitable dispute between the heirs was referred for arbitration—
the wisdom of permanently separating the northern and southern
states. His award, published in 1861 (the result of a commission
consisting of General Coghlan and Rev. G. P. Badger), confirmed
the arrangement of the late ruler, assigning Muscat to the elder
and Zanzibar to the younger brother, the latter to pay compensa
tion for the superior richness of his inheritance by an annual
subsidy to Muscat of 40,000 crowns . 1 Seyid Thoweyni of Muscat
reigned till 1866, when he was assassinated at Sohar. The gravest
suspicions rested upon his son Seyid Salim, with whom the British
Government for a while suspended relations . 2 A little later he was
recognised; but the two years of his reign were marked by the rebellion
of more than one pretender to the throne ; and the wretched Salim
fled the country, dying later on of small-pox at Kurrachi. After an
interlude of usurpation by another member of the reigning family,
Seyid Turki, a younger brother of Seyid Thoweyni, and one of the
twenty-four sons of Seyid Said, returning from India, where he
had been paid to live in exile, established himself in Muscat in
1871, and enjoyed a somewhat disturbed and inglorious reign till
June 1888. Another brother, Seyid Abdul Aziz, was in continuous
rebellion, and at one time pushed his success to the point of being
admitted to a share in the government of Muscat; but being again
1 Aitchison, vol. vii., No. xl.
2 There were ten assassins engaged in the plot, nine of whom subsequently
perished by a violent death. There is very little doubt but that Seyid Salim
actually fired the pistol-shot that killed his father.
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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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