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'Persia and the Persian Question by the Hon. George Nathaniel Curzon, M.P.' [205] (240/714)
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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POLITICS AXD COMMERCE OF KIIORASAN
205
Cavalry.— continued.
Deregez (Turks)
Kelat-i-Nadiri . . . .
Kain and Seistan .
Tabbas . . . . .
Various towns (Sebzewar, &c.)
. 100
150
. 700
150
. 400
Total . 4,675
Artillery.
200
(20 light field guns in the Ark at Meshed, 2 field guns at
Kelat, 6 mounted guns at Sarakhs.)
Infantry
Cavalry
Artillery
. 6,400
. 4,675
. 200
Grand Total . 11,275
Such is the alleged effective strength of the Khorasan army.
Properly drilled and decently officered, it might be a respectable
force. Under existing circumstances it cannot be spoken of with
out a smile,
I now turn to the commercial part played by Great Britain
and Russia in Khorasan. For many years past Russia, though a
Commerce -^^tion with no special commercial aptitudes, has con-
inKhQm- ceived the ambition of controlling the markets of Central
Asia. Inherited from Peter the Great, this idea has
been prosecuted with a vigour in striking contrast with the listless-
ness elsewhere exhibited by the same people. It is now a cardinal
axiom of Russian politics in the East that commercial must pre
cede political control; and the institution of mercantile agents and
middlemen, the opening up of means of communication, and the
granting of special exemptions and preferences to goods on their
way to or from Oriental markets are invariable features of their
Asiatic diplomacy. Khorasan, lying in such near proximity both
to the Caspian, of which they possess the monopoly of navigation
and to Transcaspia, which they conquered in 1881, has presented
a suitable field for these operations, and may be looked to as
typifying the high-water mark of Russian commercial success.
Before, however, I pass on to examine the present condition of
affairs, let me call attention to the fact, which 1 have never seen
Former recorded in this context, that the trade between Europe and
trade'with Khorasan is not of Russian but of British institution, and
Meshed that 150 years ago English merchants were the first who
endeavoured to open up that highway from the Caspian to Meshed
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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.
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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