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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [349r] (700/1814)
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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are expected to subscribe, and which is supposed to come out
once a fortnight, although its appearances are irregular. This
paper is edited by the Minister of the Press, who enjoys an
absolute monopoly of all newspaper and other printing, and pays
500
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
a year for the privilege. The ‘ copy' is always sub
mitted to and countersigned by the Shah. It is produced, as are
the other journals that I shall mention, by the
lithographic
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cess. The Shah occasionally contributes to the c Iran/ and prides
himself on the exceptional purity of his style, in which few Arabic
words occur, in spite of the large part they fill in tlie national
vocabulary. In the same journal (May 10 and 19, 1888) was
printed a communication, also from the Royal pen, to which I
shall afterwards refer, upon the new lake that was formed a few
years ago on the road from Teheran to Kum. Foreign politics
are excluded from the purview of the c Iran/ for fear of offending
the ambassadors; domestic politics are eschewed for fear of offend
ing the Shah and governing hierarchy; and accordingly its scope
is narrowed to the uninteresting dimensions of a Court Journal
and Official Gazette, in which are recorded ministerial appointments,
the movements of the Court, and the wonderful shots made or
heads of game bagged by the king. A. feuilleton, however, always
appears, consisting as a rule of some historical or geographical
work of ancient or modern times. It may well be imagined tbat
without a subscription list artificially recruited such an organ could
not boast of a very lucrative existence. A/; ■" "A-// c .,* f
( 2 ) The c Ittelah, a semi-official organ, also edited by the Min
ister of the Press, and also appearing irregularly, though nominally
once a fortnight. The scientific bent of its editor, the Itimad-es-
Sultaneh, then known as the Sani-ed-Oowleh, was responsible for
the technical character of some of its earlier contents; but it lias
now embarked upon a less restricted field. It often contains
a political aiticle, snipped as a rule from some French newspaper
by the scissoi s of the Minister 5 and it has been known to publish
telegrams of European incidents within a month of their occur
rence.
(o) The ‘ Sheref/ an illustrated monthly,
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Teheian, under the same official supervision and editorship. Its
illustrations are usually confined to portraits of some Persian
minister or grandee, sometimes varied by the physiognomy of a
European potentate.
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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).
- Extent and format
- 2 volumes with inserts (898 folios)
- Physical characteristics
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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- English, Urdu and German in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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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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- Public Domain