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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 .’ [30v] (65/126)
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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58
TEHERAN—NOTABLES.
Khaneh of Fars and died at Madina in 1844. His two sons were
Hajji Muhammad Hashim Khan (born 1812), who succeeded his
. father as Amir i Divan Khaneh in 1844 and died a few years ago,
and Hajji Mihr Ali Khan (born 1816), who became chief com
mander of the Fars troops, with the title of Shuja el Mulk, was
commander-in-chief of the army opposing the English troops in
Fars during the Anglo-Persian war of 1856-57, and died 1876.
Mirza Muhammad Khan (born 1850), a son of the former, and
Mirza Ahmad Khan (born 1858), a son of the latter, are now living
in Shiraz as pensioners of the Government.
Mirza Asad Ullah Khan, the eldest son of Aka Baba Khan,
remained in Teheran when his brothers and his eldest son, Hajji
Shukr Ullah Khan, went to Shiraz in 1798, rose to be Lashkar
Navis Bashi of Persia, and the Teheran Nuris are descended from
him through his sons : Mirza Nasr Ullah Khan, who is better known
as Mirza Aka Khan, Mirza Fazl Ullah Khan, and Jafar Kuli Khan.
Mirza Aka Khan received the title of Itemad ed Dowleh on
Nassir ed Din Shah’s accession, became Sadr Azam on the fall of
Amir i Nizam Mirza Taki Khan in November, 1851, and held that
post until September 21, 1858, when he was dismissed, and a
cabinet of six ministers formed. His eldest son was the late Nizam
el Mulk Mirza Kazim Khan, whose eldest son, Nizam cl Mulk, Mirza
Abdul Vahab Khan (q.v.), married to a sister of Amin ed Dowleh,
is the present Minister of Finance and has two sons, Mudir es
Saltaneh, Mustaufi, and Afkham el Mulk, the latter married to a
daughter of Izz ed Dowleh (q.v.).
Of the other sons of Aka Khan Sadr Azam, one, Mirza Daud
Khan, after whom the Daudieh garden near Gulhek, the English
village near Teheran, is named, died many years ago, and two of his
sons, Aka Sadr, aged 25, and Hassan Ali Khan, aged 24, are now
living ; another son of Mirza Aka Khan, Hajji Mirza Ali Khan,
died at Mekka in 1893 ; a third, Sadr es Saltaneh, Hajji Husain Kuli
Khan (q.v.), is now living; and a fourth, Mirza Muhammad Kha,n, is
a pensioner of Government. The sons of these three last-named
sons of Mirza Aka Khan, as well as the descendants of Mirza Fazl
Ullah Kan Mustaufi and of Jafar Kuli Khan, uncles of Miza Arka
Khan, are not of any note.
81. SAAD ED DOWLEH IIABBIB ULLAH KHAN, TUNAKA-
BUNI—
Is the father of Nasr es Saltaneh, Veli Khan; served from early
youth in military service. Three or four years ago quelled the
disturbances in Kelardasht, Mazanderan. Held some small
governorships, and is now governor of Irak (Sultanabad).
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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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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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