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SUPERIOR PERSON.('Curzon')
They don't make empires the way they used to. Take the imperial brag. Here is George Nathaniel, Viscount Curzon--the most grandiloquent, if not the greatest, Viceroy of India--and the subject of David Gilmour's elegant biography, "Curzon"(Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $45), waxing epic-messianic on the British imperial mission: "To me the message is carved in granite; it is hewn out of the rock of doom--that our work is righteous and that it shall endure."And here is Proconsul Jay Garner, musing on the prospects of the American imperium in Iraq: "If we make headway on a lot of major things, we will put ourselves in a marvellous up-ramp where things can begin happening. If we ...
- Curzon did not want Delhi as India's Capital: book.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. August 16, 2009 700+ words
Curzon did not want Delhi as India's Capital: book New Delhi, August 16, 2009 (PTI) - If Lord Curzon had his way, New Delhi wouldn't have been India's capital today! Curzon, who announced the partition of Bengal...
- Lord Curzon Takes Office as Viceroy of India January 6th, 1899.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: History Today Cavendish, Richard January 1, 1999 700+ words
...his degree', George Curzon, Viceroy-designate of India, told an Old Etonian...elitist's elitist, Curzon had already been to India in the 1880s and 1890s...army under Kitchener. Curzon's arrival in India as Viceroy would prove...
- George N. Curzon, Viceroy of India.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Lord Curzon's first-aid kit: before he became viceroy of India, George...
- Magazine article from: Geographical April 1, 2007 700+ words
...appointed viceroy of India. Before this appointment, Curzon travelled extensively...Turkistan, Afghanistan, India, Sri Lanka, China...political career, Curzon remained fascinated...empty spaces between India and Russia, and was...
- Lord Curzon: The Last of the British Moghuls.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Historian Hayden, Albert A. September 22, 1994 700+ words
...Distraught with fear and grief, Curzon had remained glued to her bedside. In India, Mary had been his only friend...suggest, she concentrates on Curzon's youth and his service in India. Her account of Curzon's failures and successes is...
- Curzon.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) December 17, 1994 700+ words
...them. George Nathaniel Curzon, a great British statesman...resignation as viceroy of India was accepted only because...biography emphasises, Curzon was a fanatically hard...His achievements in India included financial and...towards the Indians aroused Curzon's fury, his view of...
- Heir to Curzon title faces jail for theft of [pounds sterling]117,000 cheque;...
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) August 16, 2006 700+ words
...teenager's father, the Hon David Curzon and his mother Ruth, who also...known family member was George Curzon, Viceroy of India at the turn of the century, who...unknown in the family. Andrew Curzon's uncle, the 4th Viscount Scarsdale...
- 'The safety of our Indian Empire': Lord Curzon and British predominance in the...
- Magazine article from: Middle Eastern Studies Fisher, John July 1, 1997 700+ words
...the matter of the Hejaz Curzon was obliged temporarily...officials in Cairo and at the India Office, or by Curzon himself, to revive the...6) More broadly, Curzon was beginning to be afflicted...Hirtzel(7) of the India Office from the autumn...
