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'Biographical Notes' [122r] (249/611)
The record is made up of 1 volume (302 folios). It was created in c 1904. It was written in English and Persian. 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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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 Eaoti 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
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Yakub Khan, fled to Meshed, and became chief
of the Jamshidis in Khorassan. They then numbered about
300 families, but 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 years after
wards. At this time they only numbered about 80 families, which
is their present strength.
In 1889 Zulflkar Khan opened negotiations with the Eussians,
whereupon he and the tribe were sent back to Karrabukhah. He
then fled to Eussian 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. Zulflkar 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.
KAIYANLU TEIBE OF KHOEASSAK—
This is one of the Kurdish tribes moved from Western Persia to
Khorassan by Shah Abbas Safavi about 1600.
It occupies the districts of Eadkan 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 Eadkan), his uncles
Kazim Khan and Muhammad Husain Khan, and his cousin
Asadullah Khan.
The above Kazim Khan is the deputy governor.
KAEAI TEIBE OF KHOEASSAN—
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 Fars by Amir Tirnur, and eventually
from Fars to Khorassan by Shah Ismail Safavi. They remained in
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The volume contains manuscript draft biographical notes on Persian statesmen and notables compiled by George Percy Churchill.
Many of the notes are accompanied by imprints of the subject's seal and signature (in Persian); some by typescript pages, extracts from published works and newspaper cuttings; and a few (folio 114v, folio 163v) by portrait photographs. The notes give the subject's name as heading, and various information including dates of birth and death, office and career history, family details (including members of the Shah's family), pay and financial details, interests, linguistic abilities, and some personal comments.
The introductory page (folio 4v), which is signed by Churchill and dated 1904, is inscribed 'Strictly Confidential and for the Use of His Majesty's Government Officials Only'. A manuscript note states that the volume had been compiled from a variety of sources, and embodied the bulk of Colonel H Picot's biographical note of 1897, which Churchill had endeavoured 'to bring up to date and amplify'. The volume also contains a printed extract containing a list of words used in the composition of Persian titles, with a glossary of their meaning, including both the Persian forms and English transliterations; a manuscript genealogical tree of the Royal Kajar House; a manuscript list entitled 'Principal Persian Diplomatic and Consular Representation'; a manuscript list of Persian cabinet minsters and other politicians, dated 1901; list of ministers, provincial governors, etc in Persia dated 1904; and grouped cuttings of printed seals and coloured impressions of crests (folios 2v, 3r, 29v).
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- 1 volume (302 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains an alphabetical index of names between ff. 5-28. These refer to the main body of entries by means of pagination numbers.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 2 on the first folio after the front cover and terminates at 303, on the inside back cover. These numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. Foliation anomaly: ff. 4, 4A. The following folios need to be folded out to be read: f. 31, ff. 34-35.
Pagination: there is an incomplete printed pagination sequence, running from 1-489 (ff. 36v-299v) which appears in the top right hand corner of each recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page, and the top left hand corner of each verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. page of the main (ruled) portion of the volume. Some of the preceding pages in the volume have been numbered in pencil, but these numbers do not appear to be part of any discernible sequence.
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- 'Biographical Notes'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:3v, 3v:4v, 4Ar, 4Av, 5r:28v, 29v:32r, 33r:39r, 40r:53v, 54v:158v, 160r:170r, 171r:244r, 245r:302v, back-i
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