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‘PERSIA. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY, NOTABLES, MERCHANTS, AND CLERGY, COMPILED BY LIEUTENANT-COLONEL H. PICOT, Military Attaché at Teheran .’ [16v] (37/126)
The record is made up of 1 volume (60 folios). It was created in Dec 1897-8 Jul 1898. It was written in English. 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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30
TEHERAN— ROYAL FAMILY.
20. HAJJI MUHAMMAD MTRZA—
Son of the late Kahraman Mirza.
Is tlie present governor of the Turbat i Haidari district of
Khorassan and governor of the Karai tribe (q.v.).
Age 60 ; is Mir Panj.
21. MUIZZ ED DOWLEH, ISMAIL MIRZA—
Son of the late Muizz ed Dowleh, Bahrain Mirza (died 1882), who
was a son of Valiahd Abbas Mirza. He was colonel in 1852.
Age about 60 ; is Amir-i-Tuman.
22. MULK ARA, MUHAMMAD MIRZA—
Son of the late Mulk Ara, Abbas Mirza, who died in 1897, and
was oiie of the late Shah’s brothers. Accompanied his father to
Russia on the occasion of the Czar’s coronation in 1896.
Age 35, speaks French.
23. MUNTASIR EL MULK,
NAWAB
An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India.
MUHAMMAD HASS A.K
MIRZA—
Is the son of the late Jafar Kuli Mirza, who owned considerable
landed property in Khorassan. He is commonly known as Shah-
zada Hassan Khan.
The title of Muntasir el Mulk was conferred upon him by
Nassir ed Din Shall in 1895. In 1894 he was chief of the Persian
( ossacks and police of Meshed, and in 1895 became governor of
Turbat-i-Haidari. In September, 1895, he was treacherously
seized by Asaf ed Dowleh, then governor-general of Khorassan,
and deported from Meshed with the Nusrat et Mulk the Timuri
chief, for personal enmity. He returned shortly afterwards but
has not been again employed. He was placed in charge of the
administrative affairs of Meshed by the government, pending the
arrival of the Rukn ed Dowleh, the present governor-general of
Khorassan and Sistan, but was relieved of the work by Hajji
Mirza Mahmud Khan Beglar Beggi, by order of the Rukn ed
Dowleh.
Age about 50.
24. MUTAMAD ED DOWLEH ABDUL ALT MIRZA—
Son of the late Mutamaded Dowleh, Ferhad Mirza (born 1817, died
1888), who was a son of Yaliahd Abbas Mirza. Was some time
private secretary to Nassir ed din Shah, and had the title of
1 htesham el Mulk. Was governor of Khamseh (Zenjan), and
received the title of Ihtesham ed Dowleh in 1888; and his present
title in 1892 on his elder brother s death, who was governor of Ears.
Is married to a daughter of the late Shah and holds the district of
Talikan in fief. Is learned and a poet.
Age about 42 : is Amir i Tuman ; speaks French.
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Printed collection of biographical notices, as well as comments on élite dynasties and tribes of Persia [Iran], written over a period of twelve months and completed in December 1897 by Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Philip Picot (Military Attaché, Teheran [Tehran]), then Acting Oriental Secretary in Her Majesty’s Legation. Amendments were added up until 23 January 1898. The author presented the manuscript to Charles H Hardinge (First Secretary, Foreign Office, London), 27 January 1898. The latter forwarded it to the Marquis of Salisbury (Prime Minister), 28 January 1898, who received it a month later (28 February 1898). The title page (f 1) is stamped as having belonged previously to the Government of India’s Library of the Foreign Office, Simla, where this copy was received with two other copies (two for Simla and one for Calcutta [Kolkata], three copies in total) and a letter from the Secretary of the Political and Secret Department, dated 8 July 1898 (location not disclosed). The contents are marked secret (originally ‘confidential,’ crossed out), and specified as, ‘For the use of Officers in Her Majesty’s Service only.’
The printed work comprises two ‘inclosures’ [enclosures]: firstly, Picot’s letter of presentation to Hardinge (f 2v), prefaced by Hardinge’s letter of presentation to the Marquis of Salisbury (f 2); secondly, the treatise proper (ff 3r-60v). The contents page (f 3v) lists four main sections, but without corresponding page references. Following a brief introduction (f 4), an alphabetic register [index] of names (ff 4v-11v), and a glossary of titles and terms (ff 12r-13v), the work is divided into eight chapters comprising numbered entries. The first four chapters deal with the royal family in Teheran (forty-five entries over ff 14r-19v), the notables of Teheran (ninety-seven entries over ff 20r-32v), the merchants of Teheran (twenty-eight entries over ff 33r-35v), and the clergy of Teheran (eleven entries over ff 36-37). The remaining four chapters focus on the provinces of Fars (thirty-eight entries over ff 37v-44v), Ispahan [Isfahan] (eleven entries over ff 45-47), Khorasan (fifty-nine entries over ff 47v-57v), and Tabriz (twenty-two entries over ff 58-60).
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- 1 volume (60 folios)
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The entries are recorded in chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume. Contents page (folio 3v) and indices (folios 4v-13v) are included towards the beginning.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 60; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the volume also contains an original pagination sequence.
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