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7. Tamjld-ud-Daulah, Shams-ud-Dln Khan. Son of above.
8. Amjad-us-Sult&n—Khan Baba Khan.
9. Ala-ud-Daulah—Ahmad Khan.
10. Nazim-us-Saltanah, Abdullah Khan. Brother of Ala-ud-Daulah.
11. Ihtisham-us-Saltanah—Mahmdd Khan.
12. Mu’m-ud-Daulah—Husain All Khan.
442. QaeII tribe of KhurAsAn.
The Qarais 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 Bars by Amir Timur, and eventually
from Bars to Khurasan by Shah Isma’il Safavi. They remained
in the Merv and Herat districts for some time, but afterwards settled
in the Turbat-i-Haidari district, which was in an almost independent
state in the early part of the nineteenth century. At that time they
were a very powerful tribe, but gradually their number declined.
This decline was the result of rebellion, continued persecution from
the Turkomans, and famine. Is haq Khan Qarai, who wa*
then chief, gained great power and was in open rebellion during
the reign of Bath ’AH Shah. In 1815, he and his son Hasan AH
Khan were killed at Meshed by Muhammad Vali Mirza. The
second son, Muhammad Khan Qarai, then rebelled, but was
coerced by Hasan AH Mirza, Shuja’-us-Saltanah, in 1819. In
1829 he again rebelled and took possession of Meshed; he was
subdued, however, by the troops of Ahmad ’AH Mirza, son of Bath
AH Shah and Governor-General of Khurasan. He then remained
in a semi-independent state, and never properly acknowledged the
authority of the Qajars. After his death the chiefs of the Qarai
tribe lost their former independence, and gradually the hereditary
chiefship was abolished and the tribe was put under the Governor
of the Turbat-i-Haidari district.
Their leading Khans are AM Naqi Khan, Shaji-ul-Mulk, a descendant
of Ishaq Khan.
443. QarishmAr tribe of KhurAsan.
The tribe is also caUed Bayuj and Gharibzadah; but is generally known
as Qarishmar in Khurasan. The name is a corruption of “ ghair-
i-shwmar" (out of the count). They are gipsies ; and it is said that
about 12,000 families of them were brought to Persia from India
by Bahram-i-Gur, to act as singers and dancers. They are scattered
all over Khurasan, and number several thousand families. The
whole of this tribe is under the Shah’s Shatirbashi, who collects
their taxes and governs them through his deputies in each province.
The chief in Khurasan is 'All Akbar Khan Sartip, son of Hajl
Hashim Khan, now dead, a relative of the Shatribashi who Hves at
Meshed.
444. QashqAi tribe (Qashqai chiefs of Bars).
The Qashqais 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 Bars, and from this “ running away ” (in
Turkish Qashmaq) the part of the Khalaj which settled in Edrs was
caUed Qashqai, i.e., fugitives. They now number about 25,000
families, sub-divided into 66 Hr ah (branches), each with a kaldntar or
kadkhudd. The chief of the tribe is the Ilkhanl, and his deputy is
the Ilbegl; 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 The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran. was Darab Khan (born 1829), son of Mustafd QuH
Khan, 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. , of the Shahillu branch. His ancestor Isma’U Khan