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'Biographical Notes' [122v] (250/611)
The record is made up of 1 volume (302 folios). It was created in c 1904. It was written in English and Persian. 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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M
98 khoeassan.
the Merv and Herat districts for some time, but afterwards settled
in the Turbat i Haidari district, which was an almost independent]
state in the early part of the nineteenth century. At that time
they were a very powerful tribe, but gradually their number
declined. This decline "was the result of rebellion, continued;
persecution fit)m the Turkomans, and famine. Ishak Khan Karai,
who was then chief/gained great power and was in open rebellion
during the reign of Fath Ali Shah. In 1815, he and his son
Hassan Ali Khan were killed at Meshed by Muhammad Wall
Mirza. The second son, Muhammad Khan Karai, then rebelled,]
but was coerced by Hassan Ali Mirza, Shuja es Saltaneh, in 1819.
In 1829 he again rebelled and took possession of Meshed; he was
subdued, however, by the troops of Ahmad Ali Mirza, son of lath
Ali Shah and governor general of Khorassan. He then remained
in a semi-independent state, and never properly acknowledged the
authority of the Kajars. After his death, the chiefs of the Karai
tribe lost their former independence, and gradually the hereditary
chiefship was abolished, and the tribe was put under the governor
of the Turbat i Haidari district.
Their leading khans are Ali Naki Khan, Shaji ul Malk, and
Abdur Reza Khan, descendants of Ishak Khan. The former is
Sartip of the Karai Battalion, and is about 55 years of age.
22. KAEISHMAE TEIBE OF KHORASSAN—
This tribe is also called Fayiij and Gharibzada; but it is generally
known as Karishmar in Khorassan. The name is a corruption of
"ghair i shumar" (out of the count). They are gipsies ; and it is
said that about 12,000 families of them were brought to Persia]
from India by Bahramgiir, to act as singers and dancers. They
are scattered all over Khorassan, and number several thousand
families. The whole of this tribe is under the Shah's Shatirbashi,
who collects their taxes and governs them through his deputies in
each province. The chief in Khorassan is Ali Akbar Khan Sartip,
son of Hajji Hashim Khan, now dead, a relative of the Shatirbashi
who lives at Meshed. He is about 30 years of age.
23. KAVVAM UT TUJjVR, HAJJI MUHAMMAD—
One of the leading merchants of Meshed. Is a British subject.
Age 25. /
24. HAJJI MIRZA MAHMUD KHAN—
Is a native of Teheran, who came to Khorassan in 1857, and has
remained in Me/ned ever since. Has been several times governor
of Turbat i 1 h/dari. I
Is at present Beglerbeggi of Meshed, and also chief of the
city police/ Age 65.
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- Content
The volume contains manuscript draft biographical notes on Persian statesmen and notables compiled by George Percy Churchill.
Many of the notes are accompanied by imprints of the subject's seal and signature (in Persian); some by typescript pages, extracts from published works and newspaper cuttings; and a few (folio 114v, folio 163v) by portrait photographs. The notes give the subject's name as heading, and various information including dates of birth and death, office and career history, family details (including members of the Shah's family), pay and financial details, interests, linguistic abilities, and some personal comments.
The introductory page (folio 4v), which is signed by Churchill and dated 1904, is inscribed 'Strictly Confidential and for the Use of His Majesty's Government Officials Only'. A manuscript note states that the volume had been compiled from a variety of sources, and embodied the bulk of Colonel H Picot's biographical note of 1897, which Churchill had endeavoured 'to bring up to date and amplify'. The volume also contains a printed extract containing a list of words used in the composition of Persian titles, with a glossary of their meaning, including both the Persian forms and English transliterations; a manuscript genealogical tree of the Royal Kajar House; a manuscript list entitled 'Principal Persian Diplomatic and Consular Representation'; a manuscript list of Persian cabinet minsters and other politicians, dated 1901; list of ministers, provincial governors, etc in Persia dated 1904; and grouped cuttings of printed seals and coloured impressions of crests (folios 2v, 3r, 29v).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (302 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains an alphabetical index of names between ff. 5-28. These refer to the main body of entries by means of pagination numbers.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 2 on the first folio after the front cover and terminates at 303, on the inside back cover. These numbers are written in pencil, are circled, 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. 4, 4A. The following folios need to be folded out to be read: f. 31, ff. 34-35.
Pagination: there is an incomplete printed pagination sequence, running from 1-489 (ff. 36v-299v) which appears in the top right hand corner of each recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page, and the top left hand corner of each verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. page of the main (ruled) portion of the volume. Some of the preceding pages in the volume have been numbered in pencil, but these numbers do not appear to be part of any discernible sequence.
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- 'Biographical Notes'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:3v, 3v:4v, 4Ar, 4Av, 5r:28v, 29v:32r, 33r:39r, 40r:53v, 54v:158v, 160r:170r, 171r:244r, 245r:302v, back-i
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