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to have surrendered all arms, but finds are said to have been of
arms concealed on his property and he was arrested and sent
to Tehran, where he still is (November 1920). He was on bad
teims with Dr. Hashmat, the Jangall leader, hanged in Rasht
in 1919.
No. 71. HAJI MIRZA YAHYA KHAN.
A big landowner and head of the Sufi family of Amlish.
i?! 6 0 '^ s . extensive estates in Ranikuh including the portlet of
Ghamkhaleh. He has planted tea gardens at Amlish. He
has suffered severely from Jangall and Bolshevik disorders. '
No. 72. IHSANULLAH KHAN {Jangall).
Born about 1883. A native of Sari in Mazandaran of humble
origin, educated at the expense of a relation at the Dar-ul-
hunun m Tehran, but took to drink.
too? 6 th f “Mujahidin ” from Rasht to Tehran in
1909, where he stayed and m 1916 was a confederate in the con
spiracy of Salar Fatih (No. 61) and Mirza Kuchik Khan (No 75)
and others. At the beginning of 1918 he became a tool of the
Committee of Punishment”, until.the Committee wag crushed
by \ usuq-ud-Dauleh’s Cabinet in the summer of 1918, when
he tied to San in Mazandaran. From there he went West to
Chalus and joined Salar Fatih (No. 61) in his first foray to
lunakabun, and went on with him to Kuchik Khan to Kasma
where he remained. In spring 1919 he was in command of a
party of 70 Jangahs and Kuchik Khan arranged a wedding for
him with a wealthy Dailimani.
Under the inspiration of alcohol he is one of the most violent
ot the Jangali leaders.
In July 1920 with Khalu Qurban he joined the most violent
section ot the Bolsheviks, which quarrelled with Kuchik Khan,
ar f, / h ‘ ef Commissar in the Communist Government
Hom £lt a r the expulsion of Kucbik Khan’s Commissars
No. 73. KHALU QURBAN {Tangalt).
Born about 1876. A native of Harsin in the Gamasiab
’ ; l e J , n , e ^ r Jhsitun of Kirmanshah province. He was a
farrash for many years in the house of Mukhblr-ud-Dauleh
and other Tehran notables, and then became a collector of emm
tragacanth m Kazvin and Gilan, until attracted by stories of
profitable employment m the Jangal in 1918 he joined Haji
Ahmad. In the spring of 1919 he was with Dr. Hashmat (see
i hapter I history, Gilan section) at Lahijan and in charge of a