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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 .’ [48v] (101/126)
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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94
KHORASSAN.
no tribal chief, except headmen of the different sections. The
families in the Meshed and surrounding districts are at present
under Mirza Muhammad Hussain, Mustaufi.
13. HAJJI H ASS AN—
An architect and building contractor of Meshed.
Age 70.
14. HAJJI MIRZA HASSAN AFSHAR, YEZDI—
One of the principal merchants of Meshed.
Age 50.
15. HAZARA TRIBE OF KIIORASSAN—
After the last siege of Herat the Persian commander, Hissam es
Saltaneh, governor-general of Khorassan, brought about 5,000
families of this tribe from Kala Nau, in the Herat district, to
Khorassan. They were allotted lands in the Jam and Bakharz
districts, and their chief, \ usuf Khan, was given the rank and pay
of a Sartip, with a service of Hazara Sowars. After a short time
about 2,000 families returned to Kala Nau, and the Persian
government did not consider it advisable to leave the remaining
families on the frontier. They, therefore, moved them to Isfarain,
where they remained some years. From Isfarain they w T ere moved
to Kana Gusha, a village near Meshed. In 1877 Yusuf Khan was
appointed governor of Bakharz, where he built the village of
Muhsinabad, on the Herat frontier, and settled a number of the
families there. His son, Ismail Khan, remained with a number of
the families at Kana Gusha. Yusuf Khan died in 1885, and was
succeeded by his son, Ismail Khan, Shuja el Mulk (q.v.). The
Hazaras in Khorassan now number about 1,200 families, who live
in Kana Gusha, Kanabist, Kalta Chanar, and Muhsinabad, in the
Meshed and Bakharz districts. There are some families in the
Zorabad district also. They all are Sunnis.
16. HISHMAT EL MULK, MIR ALI AKBAR KHAN—
Is the present chief of Sistan, and was governor of Tabas. He
succeeded his father (who was chief of both Sistan and Kain) in
1891, Kain being given over to Ins younger brother Shaukat el
Mulk. He had the governorship of Tabas in 1896, but was
dismissed 1897.
The government of Tabas was for a long time held by the
members of the family of Mir Hassan Khan,
Vakil
Elected representative or attorney, acting in legal matters such as contracting marriage, inheritance, or business; a high-ranking legal official; could also refer to a custodian or administrator.
i Tabas. He
w r as of Arab origin, of the tribe of Ibn i Sharban, said to have been
brought to Tabas from Arabia by one of the Safavian kings. The
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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.
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