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KHORASSAN.
29. MU A YEN UT TUJJAE, HAJJI MUHAMMAD HASSAN
MU IN UT TUJJAK, HAJJI ALI AKBAR—
Are sons of the late Hajji Mulla Ahmad, banker, of Herat. I hey
are at present the leading native bankers and merchants of
Meshed, and command great influence in that town. Almost all the
wealthy people of Meshed have dealings with them, and the trades
people generally refer their disputes to them lor settlement and
accept their decisions as final. They are at present the farmers
of the Nishapur turquoise mines in partnership with Nusrat el
Mulk, the Timuri chief (q.v.).
There is a third brother, Ilnjji Abdur Rahim, who is 30 years
old.
Hajji Muhammad Hassan is 40 years of age; Hajji Ali Akbar
is 35.
30. HAJJI MUHAMMAD AMIN KHAN—
Present chief of the Raoti tribe of Khorassan (q.v.). The Raoti tribe,
incorrectly called Jamshidi by people in Khorassan, derives its name
from the Derawat district of Kandahar. About 2,000 families of
this tribe originally emigrated from Derawat to Herat, but, owing
to some misunderstanding between two sections of the tribe, about
700 families migrated to the Taimani country and joined the tribe
of that name. The rest of the tribe settled in the Badghis district,
whence they were moved to Maruchak by order of Nadir Shah.
There they intermarried with the Jamshidis. From Maruchak
they moved to the Kara Jangal hills; from there they were again
moved by Nadir Shah to the Khushkhaneh district of Kuchan.
After Nadir Shah’s death they migrated to Sarakhs and thence
returned to Badghis. Ahmad Shah Afghan restored to them their
former possessions at Chaharderreh, Shahrud, and Karabagh, and
conferred the title of khan upon their chief—Nadar Khan.
Afterwards the tribe again migrated to Khorassan from Herat
and settled at Zorabad, whence they returned to Herat and settled
at Kushk. In 1857, this tribe, then numbering some 700 families,
migrated to Kuhsan, and then were induced by the Persians to
come to Khorassan. They were allotted lands in Sar i Jam, where
they settled, but were obliged to move from there to Kanagusha
and Karabukka (villages near Meshed) owing to Turkoman raids.
Their chief then was Ismail Khan, son of Allahyar Khan.
From Kanagusha they were again moved to the Kushkhaneh
district of Kuchan, but later on again returned to Kanagusha.
They then numbered about 550 families, but, owing to famine and
other causes, this number has been reduced to 200 .