Nasiri Diaries and Victorian Threats Analysis of Diaries of His European Tours through the Discourse of Anglo-Persian Relations

The communicative role of letters in travel writings, especially the travel diaries through the cultural-political discourse of foreign relationship was already used by the historians and politicians. Back from the Qajars’ political-literary discourses, we find diary and travel writing as a chief genre. Although writing of Nasir al-Din shah of Persia (1831-1896) for the first time seems that the published and translated diaries relating to his tours in Europe was simultaneously a way to get familiar and influence power by the foreigners; particularly his diaries of the two visits of England in the colonial time of Queen Victoria (1819-1901) and their economic relations to the Persia, but Nasir al-Din shah wrote nothing about political consequences and economic aspects of his tours. In this paper, by a Foucauldian historic scanning through the Anglo-Persian political, economic and cultural relations, we want to be aware of the untold facts. We also need some parallel references such as other diary from shah’s retinues, histories, documents, and its reflections in the press. So we can solve the inconsistent problems by using both textual and contextual discourse analysis in order to overcome the contradictionsbetween. Now, through reading of such a shocked narration, it is easy to know narrator’s characteristics, interests, suppositions, attitudes, and worries which is made up from exercised power in shah’s political behavior and utterance. Totally the relationships never restricted to the Iranian progressive living style, but it formed the English identity in time of civilization and scientific promotion as well.