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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 .’ [50v] (105/126)
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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98
KHOKASSAN.
the Merv and Herat districts for some time, hut afterwards settled
in the Turbat i Haidari district, which w T as an almost independent
state in the early part of the nineteenth century. At that time
they were a very powerful tribe, but gradually their number
declined. This decline v r as the result of rebellion, continued
persecution from the Turkomans, and famine. Ishak Khan Karai,
who was then chief, gained great power and w r as in open rebellion
during the reign of Fath Ali Shah. In 1815, he and his son
Hassan Ali Khan were killed at Meshed by Muhammad Wali
Mirza. The second son, Muhammad Khan Karai, then rebelled,
but was coerced by Hassan Ali Mirza, Shuja es Saltaneh, in 1819.
In 1829 he again rebelled and took possession of Meshed; he was
subdued, how 7 ever, by the troops of Ahmad Ali Mirza, son of Fath
Ali Shah and governor general of Khorassan. He then remained
in a semi-independent state, and never properly acknowledged the
authority of the Kajars. After his death, the chiefs of the Karai
tribe lost their former independence, and gradually the hereditary
chiefship was abolished, and the tribe was put under the governor
of the Turbat i Haidari district.
Their leading khans are Ali Ndki Khan, Shajl vl Malk, and
Abdur Reza Khan, descendants of Ishak Khan. The former is
Sartip of the Karai Battalion, and is about 55 years of age.
22. KARISHMAR TRIBE OF KHORASSAN—
This tribe is also called Fayuj and Gharibzada; but it is generally
known as Karishmar in Khorassan. The name is a corruption of
“ ghair i shumar ” (out of the count). They are gipsies ; and it is
said that about 12,000 families of them were brought to Persia
from India by Bahramgur, to act as singers and dancers. They
are scattered all over Khorassan, and number several thousand
families. The whole of this tribe is under the Shah’s Shatirbashi,
who collects their taxes and governs them through his deputies in
each province. The chief in Khorassan is Ali Akbar Khan Sartip,
son of Hajji Hashim Khan, now dead, a relative of the Shatirbashi
who lives at Meshed. He is about 30 years of age.
23. KAVVAM UT TUJJAR, HAJJI MUHAMMAD—
One of the leading merchants of Meshed. Is a British subject.
Age 25.
24. HAJJI MIRZA MAHMUD KHAN—
Is a native of Teheran, who came to Khorassan in 1857, and has
remained in Meshed ever since. Has been several times governor
of Turbat i Haidari.
Is at present Beglerbeggi of Meshed, and also chief of the
city police. Age 65.
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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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