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21. KASHKAI CHIEFS OF EARS—
The Kashkais have sprung from the great Turkish Khalaj tribe
which settled in Asia Minor during the middle ages. At the end
of the fourteenth century, when Timur removed the Khalaj from
Asia Minor to Central and Eastern Persia, a great number of them
ran away and settled in Ears, and from this “ running away ” (in
Turkish kachmak) the part of the Khalaj which settled in Ears
was called Kashkai, i.e., fugitives. They now number about
25,000 families, subdivided into 66 tirah (branches), each with a
kalantar or kedkhoda. The chief of the tribe is the Ilkhani, and
his deputy is the Ilbeggi ; the former generally resides in Shiraz
as hostage for the good behaviour of the tribe, while the latter is
with the tribe.
The last Ilkhani was Darab Khan (b. 1829), son of Mustafa
Kuli Khan, Sardar of the Shahilu branch. His ancestor Ismail
Khan (son of Jani Aka, son of Namdar Aka, son of Muhammad
Aka, son of Safar Ali Aka, son of Jani Aka, son of Kazi Aka, son
of Amir Kazi, who flourished in the beginning of the sixteenth
century) and his brother Hassan Khan were much trusted by
Kerrim Khan Zend, and were chiefs of the tribe, but Kerrim
Khan’s successor blinded Ismail Khan and cut Hassan Khan’s
hands off. After the death of Ismail Khan, his son, Jani Khan
became Ilbeggi, and in 1819 was made Ilkhani. He died in 1824
and was succeeded as Ilkhani by his second son, Muhammad Ali
Khan (b. 1793), who died in 1851. Muhammad Ali Khan had
married a daughter of Firman Firma Husain Ali Mirza in 1826,
and left three sons by other wives, viz., (a) Jahangir Khan
(b. 1815), Ilbeggi, who married a sister of Muhammad Shah and
was commander (Sertip) of the Kashkai Infantry Regiment until
1849, when he was appointed governor of Darab. In 1851, on his
father’s death, he became Ilbeggi and was appointed governor of
Kazerun. He died in 1871. His son Muhammad Hassan Khan
was Serhang of the Kashkai Infantry, and some time governor of
Abadeh, and lately governor of Bonat.
The second son was Lutf Ali Khan, who was Sertip of the
Kashkai regiment from 1851 until his death in 1856, and left a
son —Hajji Muhammad Sadik Khan, now living in Abadeh.
His third son, Hajji Nasr Ullah Khan (b. 1840), was Sertip of
Kashkai regiment from 1856 to 1878, when he became Ilbeggi
and governor of Kamfiruz and Chahar-dangeh. He died some
years ago and left a son, Sultan Ibrahim Khan Sarhang (b. 1870).
The eldest son of Jani Khan Ilkhani was Hajji Husain Kuli
Khan, who, of a quiet disposition, was thought to be incapable of
succeeding his father as Ilkhani, and settled in Kamfiruz, where