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property round Larlm, North of Sari, was mostly confiscated
by the financial officials on the ground that it was crown land
{khaliseh), the tables were turned and he was paying the piper.
No. 48. MAS’UD-UL-MULK, All Qull Khan, Sartlp.
Bom about 1870. His eldest son is Mansur-us-Sultaneh
{Habibullah Khan). He is son of Haji Najaf Quli Khan, Amir
Panj, hereditary officer of the ‘ fauj ’ of Hazar Jarib, from
whom he inherited 15 villages, 14 in the ‘ yailaq ’ of Chahar
Dungeh, about 45 miles South East of Sari, and Saruq in the
qishlaq ’ within 2 miles of Ashraf. He lives at Surkhgiriyeh
in the ‘ yailaq ’ and at Saruq in winter. He went as ‘ Pishkar ’
with Sipah Salar (No. 31a) to Azarbaijan in 1909 before Sipab
Salar’s quarrel with the Shah. He accompanied him to Gilan,
but left for Astarabad and was not concerned in the revolu
tionary movement.
He fortified Damghan against Arshad-ud-Dauleh, leader
of the ‘ Royalist ’ party advancing from Astarabad via Shahrud
along the Meshed-Tehran road in 1911 on behalf of the ex-Shah,
but ran away on their approach.
He usually keeps aloof from Mazandaran politics but joined
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. Jalil with 100 men in 1918, and was banished by Zahir-ul-
Mulk, governor of Mazandaran, in 1919 to Khorasan, where
he still is.
He is more educated, and has a much better reputaion
than the other landowners of Mazandaran.
No. 49. MU’AZID-UL-MAMALIK, Abul Qdsim, Nuri.
Born about 1880. Son of Musaddaq-ul-Mamalik (deceased)
and son-in-law and on good terms with Nizam-ul-Mamalik
(No. 51). Has a younger brother Mirza Muhammad Khan.
He is the principal landowner in Nur, but is weaker and has less
influence than his father had. He lives at Abdullabad, 3 miles
from Dar Kalah, near Am 1, in winter, and at Baladeh in the
Nur valley in summer. He is friendly and hospitable.
No. 50. NIZAM-UD-DAULEH, Former title prior to 1920
Nizdm-us-sultan.
Born about 1880. He comes of the old Nuri family of
Mazandaran. He was concerned in the “Constitutional”
movement from its outset and was for some time banished to
Mazandaran by Muzaffar-ud-Din Shah on account of his popular
opinions. On Muzaffar-ud-Din’s death he was recalled to