"إضافات وتصحيحات لمسرد الشخصيات الهامة في بلاد فارس (المجلد IV)" [و‎‎١‎٩] (٣١٢/٤٤)

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Aqa Kha T i threw in his lot with the Anglophobe*
chiefs of Borazjun and Chahkutah and the Nation-
lists, and he took part in the fighting between ihe
Shabankareh-Hayat Daud forces *pn the one side and
Borazjun on the other 1916-17. The occupation
of Dashtistan by Indian troops in 1918-20 kept
him quiet, and from all interference in district
affairs : but on the withdrawal of the S. P. N.
1921 he began to intrigue against and attack
the young Zabit Sohrab Khan, claiming half the
district of Zira on behalf of his sister’s son Jahangir
Khan, a boy. On several occasions he discharged
military parties with orders to take him to Bushire,
and finally he was summoned to Shiraz and detained
for several months in 1922. Through the latter half
of 1922 .ind beginning 1923 the antagonism between
himself and Ghazanfar-us-Sultaneh (q. v.) over the
question of Zira was strong, each continually support
ing a boy nephew. But Aqa Khan attached himself
to the Nationalists in Shiraz, and Shaikh Muhammad
Chahkutahi, and now enjoys their support. Eldest
son Ali Quli Khan, born about 1901.
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AQA MUHAMMAD HUSSAIN DEHDASHTI. Born
about 1888.
Eldest son of late Haji Abdur Bahim Dehdashti, a.
prominent merchant and commission agent of Shiraz,
as is the son. Visited Tehran and Meshed 1922, and
took up an agency for the German automobile com
pany “ Undeutsch ”. Opium-smoker and trader.
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ARDASHIR KHAN KAHSKULI. Born about 1892.
Second son of late Iskander Khan, who was son of Karim
Beg, of the Kashkuli clan of Qashqai. Thus nephew
of Ghulam Husain Khan and brother of Isfandiar
Khan Kashkuli. Thought by Mr. Smart to have