'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [‎43r] (90/610)

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Sardar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. Jalll collected about 1 900 men from Eastern Mazandaran
and remained on the defensive in the neighbourhood of Sari,
while Amir Mu’aiyid brought about 2 500 men to Shirgah,
Aliabad, and Gatab within about 8 miles of Barfarush, until
the spring of J919 when he moved East to Sari. Zahir-ul-Mulk
was then sent by the Premier, Vusuq-ud-Dauleh, on a special
mission to mediate between them and restore order in Ma^anda-
ran and soon superseded I’tizad-us-Sultaneh as Governor.
A period of negotiation' followed until on the approach of a
detachment of Cossacks from Gilan via Tunakabun and Kujur,
Zahir-ul-Mulk was strong enough to arrest in Ambl the Amir
Mukarram, who had defied his authority, and send him to
Tehran. Amir Mu’aiyid remonstrated, but alarmed at the
approach of the Cossacks he returned to Savad Kuh and after
wards agreed to go to Tehran, whence he was banished to Kirman-
shah. Sardar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. Jalii and the other chiefs were soon afterwards
disarmed in Sari and expelled to Tehran. The province of
Mazandaran was thus after several years of turbulence brought
under the authority of the Government. Saifullah Khan
and Asadullah Khan, the two younger sons of Amir Mu’aiyid,
however, with a small band of outlaws, took to the hills of Savad
Kuh, where their local knowledge and the support of the inhabi
tants enabled them to frustrate attempts made by the Gendar
merie to capture them.
The financial policy initiated by the Government in Mazan
daran aroused great opposition, this band became the focus for
malcontents, and by the summer of 1920 the movement had
developed into a formidable rebellion.
Mahal-i-Salas (TunaJcdbun, Kalaristaq and Kujur.)
Tunakabun formed part of Gilan until the latter part of
the 18th Century when Agha Muhammad Khan, Kajar made
a grant of lands and of the Governorship of Tunakabun to
Mehdi Khan, the ancestor of the present Vali Khan, Sipah
Salar. The descendants of Mehdi Khan retained the Governor
ship and acquired land and power. Kalaristaq, and more recently
Kujur, were joined to Tunakabun and formed a small province * •
1 His own Kulbadls were in the majority. Sardar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. Rafi, Maaud-nl-Mulk
and Salar Afkhain, the landowners of Hazar Jarib and Isma’il Khan Isfandinr
of the Kurd-u-Turk tribe also supported him.
2 Mostly Savad Kuhis, also Hujabr-ud-Dauleh of the Abdul Maliki tribe with
100 sowars and It’imad-i-Nizam and Iqtidar-i-Nizam of the Kurd-u-Turk.
Amir Mukarram remained neutral.
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