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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 .’ [50r] (104/126)
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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KHORASSAN.
97
known to the Persian authorities, Allahyar Khan, the chief, fled to
Herat. On his flight, the remaining families were placed under
the Raoti chief Ismail Khan. The Jamshidis were then moved to
Kushkhaneh, in the Kuchan district, where they remained for a
few years with the Raoti families. Afterwards they were brought
back to Kanagushah and Karrabukhah. In the meantime Allah
yar Khan, being displeased with the treatment he received at
Herat from Saxdar Yakub Khan, fled to Meshed, and became chief
of the Jamshidis in Khorassan. They then numbered about
300 families, hut this number was subsequently reduced to 150 by
a famine which occurred in Khorassan.
Allahyar Khan died at Karrabukhah and was succeeded as
chief by his son Zulfikav Khan. In 1885, half of the Jamshidis
were sent to Paskamar, and the rest joined them three yeais after
wards. At this time they only numbered about 80 families, which
is their present strength.
In 1889 Zulfikar Khan opened negotiations with the Russians,
whereupon he and the tribe were sent back to Karrabukhah. He
then fled to Russian territory, and his younger brother Muhammad
Azim Khan was made chief. The tribe is now settled in Jellala-
bad and Jiza Abad, near Shahan i Garmab, about ten farsakhs from
Meshed. Zulfikar Khan returned to Meshed, and settled at Shurja,
near Paskamar, where he lives at present. He is about 40 years of
age, and, with his brothers, receives a pension. About 50 families
of Jamshidis fled from Herat to Khorassan in 1893, and are at
present in the Zorabad district under Sayyid Ahmad Beg.
The Jamshidis have a service of 50 sowars.
20. KAIYANLU TRIBE OF KHORASSAN—
This is one of the Kurdish tribes moved from Western Persia to
Khorassan by Shah Abbas Safavi about 1000.
It occupies the districts of Radkan and Juvain, and consists of
some 3,000 families. It has no tribal chief, being under the gover
nor of the district—Shuja el Mulk. Its leading khans now are
Muhammad Ibrahim Khan (son of Muhammad Reza Khan, late
chief of the Kaivanlu tribe and governor of Radkan), his uncles
Kazim Khan and Muhammad Husain Khan, and his cousin
Asadullah Khan.
The above Kazim Khan is the deputy governor.
21. KARAI TRIBE OF KHORASSAN—
The Karais are Turks, and a large number of their families were
removed from Turkistan to Syria by one of the Mongol kings,
whence they were brought to Ears by Amir Timur, and eventually
from Ears to Khorassan by Shah Ismail Safavi. They remained in
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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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