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No. 44. 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. JALIL, Lutf All Khan, Kulbadl.
Former title Sdldr Mukarram.
Born about 1860. Son of Haji Murtaza Quli Khan Sultan.
His eldest son Shuku-i-Mzam, aged about 20, is a nonentity.
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. JaM is second of the big “ three ” in Mazandaran,
viz. :—Amir Mu’aiyid (No. 42), 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. Jalil and Amir Mukarram
(No. 43). The two Amirs have always been allies and since
the revolution have had control of the West of Mazandaran.
Amir Mu’aiyid has twice, in 1911 and 1918, been the
aggressor against, and come to blows with, 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. Jalil who
controls the East of the province as far West as Sari and is
supported by Mas’ud-ul-Mulk, Salar Afkham 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. Rafi,
the landowners of Hazar Jarib (upper Tejen area).
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. Jalil is a self made man. He was a petty hereditary
officer of the 100 ‘ sowars ’ of the Kulbad district, a few miles
East of Ashraf, which before the revolution were usually
stationed in Astarabad. He inherited a small property and
married a cousin who became heiress to the villages of Kulbad
by the convenient death of her brother soon after her marriage.
He set to work to acquire land by the usual tricks of the Persian
landowner, he., squeezing his peasantry, cutting off the- irriga
tion water, and making things so unpleasant for smaller owners
that they were obliged to part with their lands on his terms,
and he is charged with putting out of the way persons incon
venient to him.
Authorship is attributed to 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. Jalil of the system of
“ Shahmirzadi,” by which the monopoly of a village shop was
granted to a lessee, and the villagers were forbidden to sell their
cotton, etc., to any body else and were obliged to buy from him
their sugar tea, and other requirements. The shopkeeper
consequently was master of the situation, bought cheap and
sold dear and paid a high rent to the landlord for the monopoly.
These shopkeepers were mostly natives of the district of Shah-
mirzad near Samnan, hence the name.
By such means 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. Jalil gradually acquired very large
estates, said to amount to 50 villages, between Kulbad and
Sari, centred round his residence at Naranji Bagh by the bridge
over the Nikah on the Ashraf-Sarl road, and is one of the weal
thiest men in Northern Persia. Money making is his pursuit
and while averse to paying taxes, he has no taste for politics
and still less for soldiering.
In 1911 he did not join the ex-Shah, who was welcomed
to Mazandaran by Amir Mu’aiyid and Amir Mukarram, and
fled to Tehran. Subsequently he joined the Ittihad-i-Tabari-