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of the exodus of the ‘ Muhajirin ’ from Tehran to Qum in 1915
and went on to Baghdad. After the fall of Baghdad he returned
to Persia, intrigued with German agents and tried to oppose the
entry of the British into Persia, until on their advance to Kirinan-
shah he fled to the Sinjabi tribe. His surrender was refused by
the tribe, but after the successful operations undertaken against
them by Kalhurs and 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. Rashid he was eventually captured
and exiled to India. His arrest on Persian soil aroused an
outcry among anti-British elements, the Jangalis for instance
declaring they would only give up Captain Noel, whom they had
kidnapped at Enzali, in exchange for Sulaiman Mirza.
He is now (December 1920) on his way back from Bombay
to Persia. His elder brother Yahya Mirza died of wounds
received at the bombardment of the Majlis by Muhammad
All Shah.
No. 33. TAQIZADEH.
He came with the Tabriz Constitutionalists to Tehran
where he became a member of the 1st and 2nd Majlis, and in the
latter was official leader of the “ Democrats. He lost his
popularity, however, owing to his dictatorial manner an
aroused the opposition of the priesthood by his objection to their
intruding into politics and subordinating the Constitution to
religious law. In 1910 he was excommunicated by a “ fatvah ^
from Najaf and after the murder of Saiyid Abdulla, the Muj tabid
who had played the prominent part at the inception of the revolu
tion in Tehran, which was attributed to Taqlzadeh s ultra
democrat and Nationalist party, he was obliged to leave-
Persia. Since 1910 he has been living in Europe mostly m
Berlin, where he edits the “ kaveh,” a paper printed m Persian
with pronounced Radical—Nationalist but not Anglophobe
views advocating the Europeanization of Persia.
Taqlzadeh is a good orator and was one of the leading Con
stitutionalists, but has now lost his influence. He is an Azalr,
i.e. follower of Subh-i-Azal, the legitimate successor of the Bab,
who was superseded by his half brother Baha’ullah, the founder
of the BahaT religion.
No. 34. VUSUQ-UD-DAULEH, Mirza Hasan Khan, G.C.B.
Born about 1865. Son of the late Mu tamad-us-Sultaneh,
an employe of the Tabriz revenue office, and brother of Quvvam-
us-Sultaneh (No. 22) he is of comparatively obscure origin, but
acquired a reputation as a Constitutionalist and was a deputy of
the 1st Majlis in 1907. He was elected a deputy of the 2nd'