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'Biographical Notes' [261r] (527/611)
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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48. SHAUKAT ED DOWLEH, MIE ASADULLAH KHAJST—
Is at present the head of about 300 families of Timuris who
emigrated from Herat to Khorassan in 1857, under his father, Mir
Ataullah Khan, grandson of Nauroz Khan, brother of Amir Kilich
Khan, Eeceived his present title from the late Nassir ed Din
Shah in 1893. After the Nusrat el Mulk's (q.v.) departure to
Teheran, he was appointed governor of Jam and Zorabad, which
districts he held until autumn 1897, since when he is out of
employ.
He has the following sons :—
Alni Turab Khan, 12 years of age.
Mirza Husain Khan, 2 years of age.
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49. SHAUKAT EL MULK, MIE ISMAIL KHAN—
Is the hereditary chief of Kain. Belongs to an old family of Arabs.
The present generation is the eighth in descent from the founder
of the family, Mir Ali Khan, of the Arab tribe of Khuzaima, which
is said to have been forced to emigrate from Arabia to Khorassan
in the time, of Khalifa Harun el Eashid, in the beginning of the
ninth century, and was settled in the Kain district as a check on
the turbulent natives of that district. The tribe remained wealthy
flock-owners, and gradually increased in power till Mir Ali Khan,
their chief, became Amir of Kain about the seventeenth century.
His son, Mir Masum Khan, is said to have been in Nadir Shah's
service, and his grandson, Mir Alam Khan, is said to have been the
man who deprived Shah Eukh, grandson of Nadir Shah, of his. eye-
eight at Meshed in 1748. In the disturbances that subsequently
ensued, Mir Alam Khan gained power and proclaimed himself Amir
of Khorassan, but was forced to leave the country by Ahmad Shah
Abdali. It is said that he was succeeded as Amir of Kain by Mir
Ismail Khan, and the latter by Mir Alam Khan II, the grand
father of Mir Alam Khan III, Hishmat el Mulk, father of the
present chief of Kain, and of the present chief of Sistan and Tabas,
who died in Meshed in 1891.
On his death the title of Hishmat el Mulk (q.v.) was given to
his elder son, Mir Ali Akbar Khan ; and a new title, Shaukat el
Mulk, was conferred on his second son. By this the family has
been split up into two, and the power of the old Amir pro
portionately reduced. The Persian government has now dropped
the title of amir, and designates the sons as " hukmrans " (governors)
of Kain and Sistan.
He has no children, and has appointed his younger brother Mir
Muhamniad Ibrahim Khan Sartijp, age 15, his heir. ('
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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)
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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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