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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [642r] (1300/1814)
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 SOUTH-WESTERN PROVINCES 273
the north-western and western provinces of Persia down to the
parallels of Kermanshah and Hamadan, through which towns
Province Of ruins the main caravan track from Baghdad to Teheran.
Theie I left the Kurds of the Turco-Persian borderland
m occupation at once of the surrounding territory and of my pages.
A little to the south of Kermanshah they adjoin and are merged
in the cognate, or, at least, not alien, tribes of Lurs, who give their
name to the obscure and mountainous province of Luristan. This
territorial title has a two-fold signification, according as it is applied
to the entire country inhabited by the tribes collectively known as
Luis, or to the Persian province so called, which is administered
by a governor at Khorremabad. In the former sense, Luristan may
be said to comprise the entire belt of mountainous country, stretch
ing from the plains of the Tigris and the frontier-mountains on the
west to the borders of Isfahan and Pars on the east, and from the
districts of Kermanshah and Hamadan on the north to the plains
of Arabistan on the south. The principal tribes inhabiting these
mountain ranges are severally known as the Feili, Bakhtiari, Kuh-
gelu, and Mamasenni all of which fall strictly under the generic
classification of Lurs, although the title is disowned or has been
abandoned by some of their number. In its restricted or adminis-
trative sense, in which I shall here use it, Luristan is the province
inhabited in the main by the first of the above sub-divisions, viz.
the Feili Lurs. Their country is known as Lur-i-Kuchik, or Lesser
Luristan, and is roughly divided by the Ab-i-Diz, or Biver of Dizful,
from Lur-i-Buzurg, or Greater Luristan, which, being peopled by
the Bakhtiari tribes, who possess characteristics and interests apart,
has come to be popularly known as Bakhtiari Land. The classifi
cation that I shall follow will, therefore, be threefold, relating
successively to Lur-i-Kuchik, or the land of the Feili Lurs, to
Bakhtiari Land, and to the districts of the remaining Lur tribes.
This done, I shall pass to the province of Khuzistan, or Arabistan,
which adjoins the administrative Luristan on the south, including
some of the more southerly Lurs within its borders, and stretches
to the Tigris Delta and the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
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Who the Lurs are and whence they came is one of the unsolved
and insoluble riddles of history. A people without a history,
Origin of a literature, or even a tradition, presents a phenomenon
the Lurs in f ace of which science stands abaslied> Fiffcy yearg
Rawlinson described them as an ‘ unknown and interesting people 7 •
VOL. n. , ’
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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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