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The record is made up of 1 file (388 folios). It was created in 17 Jan 1899-4 Apr 1904. 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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This tribe is also called Fayuj and has different names in different parts of
Persia. It is called Kauli in Shiraz, Luli in Kirman and Gnaribzada in Tehran.
The word Karishmar is a corruption of Ghair-i-shumar. They are gipsies.
It is said (see Sir J. Malcolm’s History of Persia, Volume I, pages 116-117)
that about 12,000 families of them were brought to Persia from India by
Babram-i-gur, to act as singers and dancers. I hey are found in all parts
of Khorasan and number about 2,000 families.
Their chief occupations are :—Singing and dancing, fortune telling,, sieve
making and bleeding. They also work as carpenters and blacksmiths in villages.
1 he head of this tribe is the Shah’s Shatirbashi who has his deputies in each
province.
ISMAIL, Shaikh —Is a native of Kuh Surkh in the Turshiz district and
a leading priest and interpreter of the Muhammadan religious law. Commands
great influence and ranks next to Haji Mirza Habib among the clergy of Meshed.
Age about 60 years.
Ismail, Haji, MuAwin-uS-SanAYA —Son of Haji Muhammad, is about
35 years of age. He and his father are architects in charge of the shrine build
ings at Meshed.
He built the British Consulate-General at Meshed. Is a man of much
sagacity and has done considerable political service for the
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
and Con
sulate-General.
Itibar-us-Sultaneh, Musa Khan —Son of Mirza, Zaman Khan
Ghaffari, is a native of Kashan and about 50 years of age. He held charge of
the public buildings at Meshed for several years, and was Governor of Chindran
during the time of the late of Rukn-ud-Dowleh, Governor-General of Khorasan.
Was Director-General of Post Offices of Khurasan from 1898 to 1901, when
the administration of Post Office was placed under the Belgians, and was also
Beglar Begi (Chief of Police) of Meshed for a short time during Governor-
Generalship of the late Rukn-ud-Dowleh.
ItisAm ul-Mulk, Mirza, Husain Khan— Son of Khdular Khan of
Kum, is about 35 years of age. Was appointed from Tehran in 1899 Karguzar
(Foreign Office Agent) for Turbat-i-Haideri, Jam, Bakharz and Khaf. Shortly
alterwards was transferred to Persian Sarakhs in place of Mirza Ibrahim Khan,
Rukn-ul-Wazaret which post he holds at present.
J
JalAl-ut-Taulia, Haji Saiyid Husain —Son of Saiyid Said, is about
55 years of age. Is an Arab of Baghdad, his mother was one of the daughters of
bath Ali Shah, and he is known as Naib-ut-Taulia or Assistant to the guardian
of the shrine of Imam Reza.
Jalil-ul-Mulk, Muhammad Mehdi Khan— Is about 50 years of age,
and was formerly Governor of Kelat. Succeeded his father Haji Abul Path Khan,
who died in 189:. Was dismissed from the Governorship of Kelat in 1897 anc *
appointed Beglar Begi (Chief of Police) of Meshed, which post he held for about
two vears. Was then reappointed Governor of Kelat, but after a year was again
dismissed and is at present without employment.
K
Kavam ut Tujjar, Haji Muhammad —Is a British subject and one of
the leading merchants of Meshed. His father, the late Haji Mahmud, Kabuli,
held the post of British Agent at Meshed before the late Haji Mirza Abbas
Khan, C.I.E., C.M.G., was appointed to that post. He is about 30 years of
age.
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The file contains papers relating to Seistan [Sistan] and Persia [Iran].
The file includes printed copies of despatches from the Agent to the Governor-General of India and HM Consul-General for Khorasan and Seistan (Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Martindale Temple), to the Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department, with enclosed despatches from Captain Percy Molesworth Sykes to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (the Marquis of Salisbury). Skyes’s despatches regard matters including: Seistan; trade routes into South-East Persia; the boundary between Persia and Afghanistan, in relation to the River Helmund [Helmand] changing its course (in despatch No. 5, which includes four sketch maps, folios 12, 13, 14 and 15); Sykes’s journey to Birjand (in despatch No. 7, which includes a sketch map on folio 20); the ruling family of Kain, which also governed Seistan, Tabbas and Tun; Sykes’s journey from Seistan to Kerman [Kirman] (in despatch No. 11, which includes a sketch map); and the direct Kerman-Quetta caravan trade that Sykes was trying to establish.
The file also includes copies of the following papers:
- A despatch from Temple to the Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department, enclosing a letter from Temple to Sir Henry Mortimer Durand (HM Minister, Tehran), with copies of enclosures, regarding the establishment of a Seistan and Kain consulate
- A letter from Charles Edward Pitman, Director General of Telegraphs, to the Secretary to the Government of India Public Works Department, enclosing a copy of a ‘Report on the Preliminary Survey of the Route for a Telegraph Line from Quetta to the Persian Frontier’ by H A Armstrong, Assistant Superintendent, Indian Telegraph Department, which includes six photographs of views along the route [Mss Eur F111/352, f 52; Mss Eur F111/352, f 53; Mss Eur F111/352, f 54; Mss Eur F111/352, f 55; Mss Eur F111/352, f 56; and Mss Eur F111/352, f 57], and a map showing the proposed route of the telegraph line [Mss Eur F111/352, f 59]
- Letters from Hugh Shakespear Barnes, Agent to the Governor-General in Baluchistan, to the Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department, enclosing copies of the diary of the Political Assistant, Chagai, for the weeks ending 16 February, 28 February, and 8 March 1900
- Diary No. 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12 of Major-General George Frederick Chenevix-Trench, HM Consul for Seistan (Diary No. 6 includes a sketch map, folio 86)
- A copy of a ‘Report on Reconnaissances Made while Attached to the Seistan Arbitration Commission’ by W A Johns, Deputy Consulting Engineer for Railways, Bombay
- A copy of the report ‘Notes on Persian Seistan’, compiled by Captain Edward Abadie Plunkett, and issued by the Government of India Intelligence Branch, Quarter-Master General’s Department
- Two copies of map signed by Plunkett titled ‘Persian Seistan-Cultivated Area’ [Mss Eur F111/352, f 270]
- A booklet entitled ‘Notes on the Leading Notables, Officials, Merchants, and Clergy of Khorasan, Seistan, Kain, and Kerman.’
- Printed copies of letters from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India (Lord George Francis Hamilton), relating to the maintenance of British interests in Persia, dated 4 September 1899 and 7 November 1901 (the former with an enclosure of a minute by the Viceroy on Seistan).
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- 1 file (388 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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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 390; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, 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. The file contains one foliation anomaly, f 301A
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- 'Seistan'
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- front, front-i, 2r:51v, 58r:58v, 60r:112r, 113r:125v, 147r:218r, 218r, 219r:269v, 271r:301v, 301Ar, 301Av, 302r:388v, 389v:390r, 389r, back
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