'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [‎206r] (416/610)

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His sons Saifullah Khan and Hujabr-us-Sultan raised a
rebellion in Savad Kuh id the early summer of 1920. Amir
Mu’aiyidisa restless, ambitious man and as he has little or no
property of his own and battens on troubled times he has been
the most disturbing element in Mazandaran. He is personally
very popular, but his sons have a bad reputation. He has
usually been on bad terms with Sipah Salar (No. 31a). He
concluded a £ treaty ’ with an Austrian officer in June 1918, who
fell into British hands at Baku, and his banishment to Kirman-
shah by Vusuq-ud-Dauleh and dislike of ordered government
have doubtless confirmed his anti-British sentiments.
No. 43. AMIR MUKARRAM, Mlrzd Muhammad Khan.
Born about 1870. He has two sons I’zam-ud-Dauleh
(Farajullah Khan) and Azim-ul-Mulk (Asadullah Khan).
He is the son of Abbas Quli Khan 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. and comes of an old
Mazandaran family owning about 60 villages in Larijan and
around Amok He is the hereditary chief of tne ‘ fauj ’ of
Lari j an, which formerly numbered 800 ‘ sarbaz ’ and 200
4 sowars ’ and served at Astarabad, and the governorship of
these districts until 1918 was held by himself or his eldest son,
I’zam-ud-Dauleh. He has held no office outside Mazandaran
except the governorship of Astarabad for 1 year.
He was more or less independent of governors sent by the
Persian Government to Mazandaran after the Persian revolu
tion and was used on acdbunt of his family prestige by the
active Amir Mu’aiyid (No. 42) as a figure head in the latter’s
schemes in Mazandaran. He was allied with Amir Mu’aiyid
against Amir A’zam’s governmental force from Tehran which
was defeated in Larijan in September 1910, and in assisting
the ex-Shah in his attempt to reach Tehran and recover
the throne in July 1911. He afterwards continued to play
the part of figure head for Amir Mu’aiyid, but took no active
part in Mazandaran politics. In 1919 he was expelled with
the other leaders to Tehran by Zahir-ud-Mulk, Governor of
Mazandaran.
Amir Mukarram is considered an aristocratic degenerate
with no personality and incurred ignominy by taking refuge
with the Russian Consular agent at Barfarush for protection
against his creditors until himself arrested by the Russians for
non-payment of a debt to the Russian Bank. He is extra
vagant, luxorious, and weak.
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