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party of Kurds and Lurs. In 1920 he did not surrender with Haji
Ahmad, but joined Kuchik Khan and went with him to Lahijan.
During the ensuing Jangali debacle he kept together a small party
and returned to lumen. His activity and energy during this
low ebb of the fortunes of the Jangalis made him one of their
most prominent leaders. In July 1920 with Ihsanullah Khan
be joined the most violent section of the Bolsheviks, which
quarrelled with Kuchik Khan and expelled his commissars from
Rasht and in the Communist Government then established he
became Commissar for War. He is now (January 1921) said
to have gone to Moscow 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. Muhi (No. 76).
No. 74. MIRZA KARIM KHAN.
Born about 1876. Brother of 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. Muhi (No. 76). He
was the most active of the revolutionaries at Rasht in 1909.
He is the cleverest of a clever family and has fished successfully
in the troubled waters of Gilan politics. He was Turkophil
and joined the Turko-German exodus from Tehran to Qum
and afterwards went to Constantinople. He returned to Persia
in 1920. In 1920 Starosselski had his house in Rasht pulled
down in revenge for 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. Muhi’s adhesion to the Bolsheviks.
He is now (November 1920) in Tehran.
No. 75. MIRZA KUCHIK KHAN. Leader of the Jangalls.
He was born about 1878, near the village of Kasma in Gilan,
studied at a religious school in Rasht and became an Akhund.
During his humble days 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. Muhi (No. 76) who is now his
bitter enemy, was his patron. He took a small part in the
revolution in 1908 but remained inconspicuous until 1915-16
when he started the anti-Russian Ittihad-i-Islam in the Jangal
in the West of Gilan. At the outset he played the role of a
benign Robinhood, and achieved local popularity by expelling
or kidnapping oppressive' landowners and redressing the griev
ances of the peasantry. Two Persian and two Russian ex
peditions were sent against the band without any success and
by general consent they became the de facto Government of
Gilan, which had been burdened with a particularly rotten
provincial administration. In 1916 he became an important
factor in the politics of Persia, was friendly with the Russian
Bolshevik Committee which was evacuating his former enemies,
the Russian troops, from Persia, opposed the arrival of the
British and ordered General Dunsterville’s party which reached
Enzali in January 1918 to quit Gilan. He was only deterred
from ambushing them on their way back to Kazvin owing