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Coll 28/46 ‘Persia. Who’s Who, and Leading Personalities in:’ [134v] (268/352)
The record is made up of 1 file (174 folios). It was created in 26 Feb 1929-7 Jul 1947. It was written in English. 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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prior to the sucocssion of Rezc. Shah and his subsequent attempt"\to
modernize Iran> Iranian nomenclatiire consisted of one or more of thr.-s kinds
of name viz:-
(a) the initial name or names,
(b) the tribal or family name and
(c) a title.
(a) The initial name or names .
Common amonr, these v/ere, and are:-
(i) Muhammad - usually subjoined to "Asha" or "Khan" e* g*
Muhammad Khan#
(ii) Apy of the nhmes of the twelve Shia Imams similarly
subjoined to "Asha" or "Khan" or "Muhammad" e# 3 # Ali
Muhammad, Hasan Khan, Husain A^ha#
(iii) Names are compounded with "Allah" e#g# "Pathullah"
"Nasrullah".
(iv) Names taken from old Persian and subjoined to "Khan"
e. 3 # "Hormuz Khan" "Anushirwan Khan".
(b) The tribal or family name #
This was chiefly tribal or tribal in origin e# 3 . "Bakhtiyajri",
"Qaragozlu".
(c) The Title #
This v/as bestowed by the State or, in some cases, purchased
from the State and consisted of the Imonian or Arabic
rendering of some such phrase as ,, pillar of the State" or
"Confidant to the King" etc#
One of tne modernizing refoms introduced by Reza Shah
.was (i) the compulsory adoption of a surname by every
Iranian (ii) the abolition of titles (iii) the omission of
the words "Mirza", "Khan", "Beg" and "Amir" whether used
before or After other names.
The introduction of (i) took a long time to complete
and the results are varied# In some cases "title holders^
made a surname out of their titles e#g. "Fahimi" from
"Pahim-ul-MulkM.
The families of tribal origin continued to use their
tribal appellation or a variant of it as a surname e# &
"Bakhtiar" and "Bakhtiari".
In some cases two brothers would adopt different
surnames e#g# "Isfandiary" and "Nuri Isfandiaiy".
In one case a previous Governor-general of Khorasan,
at his wits end to select a suitable patronymic, chose
"Bani Adam"*- (the son of Adam) as a novel method of
earmarking his descendants#
/The ...
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Printed copies of reports entitled Biographies of Leading Personalities in Persia (also referred to in the file as Who’s Who in Persia , and Report on Personalities in Persia ). The reports were compiled by officials at the British Legation in Tehran, and updated periodically. The file contains copies for the years 1929 (ff 5-14), 1930 (ff 24-34), 1931 (ff 37-45), 1932 (ff 53-62), 1943 (ff 69-100), and 1946 (ff 106-124). The last report in the file is entitled Personalities in Persia: Military Supplement. This report is typescript rather than printed, and dated 1947 (ff 133-174).
The reports for 1929 and 1930 arrange Persian notables in order of importance, beginning with the Shah and Minister of Court, Mirza Abdul Hussein Khan Taimourtache [Abdolhossein Teymūrtāsh]. The remaining reports arrange individuals alphabetically by their family name. All reports contain biographical notes, such as background, family, and career. Many also include an assessment of their character and demeanour, their disposition towards the British, and foreign languages spoken. The 1947 report specifically concerns individuals in the Persian military, with their biographies restricted to their military careers.
The file also includes some correspondence, covering: the distribution of the reports; biographies submitted by the British Legation in Tehran for inclusion in future editions of the reports; the resignation and reconstitution of the Government in 1946, with biographies of those making up the new cabinet (ff 129-131).
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (174 folios)
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The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 176; these numbers are written in pencil and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- Coll 28/46 ‘Persia. Who’s Who, and Leading Personalities in:’
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- front, front-i, 2r:175v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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