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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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Khabir*ud-Do\vleh, Mirza, Ahmad Khan Is a native of Shiraz and
about so years of age. Has been serving for many years in the Telegraph
Department and is at present Director-General of lelegraphs in Khorasan and
Seistan.
M
Mahmud Khan, HAji MlRZA—Is a native of Tehran and married a
princess of the Kajdr family. He came to Khorasan m 1857 and has re
mained in Meshed since. Has several times been Governor of I urbat-i-Haiden
and Beglar Begi (Chief of the Police) of Meshed. At present is without official
employment. Age about 7 ° years.
Malik-UT-TujjAR, Aka Taki— Wbo is about 20 years of age, is the
second son of the late Haji Abul Kasim, Mahk-ut-Tujj 4 r of Khorasan. On his
father’s death he inherited the title of the Malik-ut-Tujjar, his elder brother, Aka
Reza, retaining the title of the Rais-ut-Tujjar which he had received from the
Persian Government while his father was alive.
Mazhar-US-Sultaneh, NADIR Mirza— Son of Ardeshir Mirza, Rukn-
ud-Dowleh, son of Abbas Mirza, son of Path Ali Shah, was Governor of Chulai-
khana in 1898. Resides at Meshed, and at present holds no official post. Is
about 60 years of age.
Mir Hasan Khan— Who is about 66 years of age, is the minor son and
successor of the late Mir Ali Mardan Khan, Nusrat-ul-Mulk, Chief of the Timuri
tribe of Khorasan, who died in January 1902. His mother is a Kajar princess,
and daughter of the late Rukn-ud-Dowleh, Governor-General of Khorasan, who,
after the Nusrat-ul-Mulk’s death, married the Shaukat-ud-Dowleh.
The affairs of Mir Hasan Khan are at present under the management of
his maternal uncle the Jalal-us-Sultan, son of the late Rukn-ud-Dowleh, who is
living at Meshed.
The Timuris (see Gazetteer of Persia) are said by some to be of Tartar
origin, but this is doubtful About 20,000 families of these people are said to
have been carried off by Amir Timur from Syria to Turkistan, hence their des
ignation as Timuris.
On his way to Samarkand, Amir Timur, gave these families as a dowry to his
daughter who was married to Mir Saiyid Kalal, an Arab Saint, w r ho was Timur’s
spiritual leader, and settled them in the Balkh district.
On Mir Saiyid Kalal’s death one of his sons Saiyid Mir Shahid (also called
Mir Shah Khan) removed the tribe from Balkh to Herat. Muhammad Shah Kajar
moved about 8,coo familes of this tribe to Khorasan under their Chief Kilich
Khan, a great grandson of Mir Saiyid Kalal who became powerful and ruled the
districts of Jam, Bakharz, Khafand Zorabad and was called Amir.
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The Timuris of Khorasan at present number about ten thousand families
scattered over the Meshed, Jam, Bakharz, Zorabad and Sarakhs districts.
Mohsin Khan, Mirza —He is a grandson of Haji Saiyid Abul Hasan
Khan, a native of Kandahar, who was sent on a mission by Nasir-ud-Din Shah
to Kabul during the time ot Amir Sher Ali Khan.
He is in charge of the repairs of the buildings of the shrine of Imam Reza
at Meshed and is said to be about 20 years of age.
Motamin-i-Nizam, Abbas Kuli Khan, Sartip —Son of Mirza, Muham
mad Husain Khan, is about 65 years of age, and a brother of the Amin-us-Sultaneh
of Tehran. Is in charge of the reserve arsenal stores at Meshed where he has
lived for the last fifteen years.
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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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