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he educated, thence as a clerk in the Post Office to
Enzeli 1911-12 : to Shiraz as accountant in the Post
Office 1913 : to Bandar Abbas 1916, whence deported
to India by the British Authorities for anglophob©
propaganda. .Released by request of Qawam-ul-Mulk V
1918. In 1920 sent to Shiraz as Nazim (controller)
of the Post Office: thence to Bushire 1920; ]eft
Bushire 1923 on sick leave, and transferred as Nazim
Muhammerah July 1923. For years an active demo
crat (‘western’) and anti-British : by 1923 seemed to
have changed his view, and desirous of friendly
relations.
One of the many candidates for election to Majlis from
Shiraz 1923.
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MIRZA ALI KAZARUNI. Born about 1868. Son of
Mirza Husain “Attar” of Kazarun. A third-class
trader in Bushire till 1915. In 1908 became bankrupt,
and property w T as taken by creditor British firms. In
1909 when the Tangistani Mulla, Sayyid Murteza
Ahrami, arrested the Governor of Bushire and brought
the Tangistani tribesmen into Bushire, seized the Cus
toms and had part of the bazar looted causing
British blue jackets to be landed. Mirza Ali Kaza-
runi acted as the Mulla’s lieutenant; and, on the crush
ing ' f the sedition by Darya Begi, had to leave
Bushire. On his return took up position of head of
the Bushire ‘Anjuman’ and mixed in politics.
On the arrest and deportation of the Germans m
March 1915, tried to influence the populace
and his anti-British propaganda was such that^ cn
the British occupation in August orders were given
for his arrest but he escaped, and joined the hostile
chiefs in Tangistan, Ohahkutah and Borazjun, where
he remained till 1918, inciting them to continue hosti
lities against tile British and acting as the mouthpiece
of the ‘Democrats’ of Shiraz. Put on British “Black
list” 1916-18. Fled north to Tehran on the advance
of the Bushire troops and remained there. In 1919,
through his friends in Tangistan and Dashti, con
trived to get himself elected as Deputy to the 1th
Majlis for Bushire, and Dashtistan (though his
credit in Bushire itself was poor).