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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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Motamin-UL-MamALIK, Mirza, Mlhammad Ali— Son of the late
Motamin-us-Saltaneh, VVazir of Khorasan, is about 28 years of age and holds
the post of an Assistant in the Karguzari of Meshed.
Motamin-us-Sultaneh, Mirza, Ali Muhammad— Is the eldest son
of the late Haji Mirza, Muhammad Reza, Motamin-us- Sultaneh,
Wazir
Minister.
and
Pishkar of Khorasan, who was summoned to Tehran in 1891 and died there.
He succeeded to the title of his father and in 1892 was appointed by the
late Sahib Diwan, Governor-General of Khorasan,
Wazir
Minister.
and Pishkar of Khorasan,
but being unfit for the post was dismissed the same year. During the year
1901-02 he held the Governorship of Sabzawar but is at present without em
ployment. He has married one of the sisters of the Naiyer*ud-Dowleh the
present Governor-General of Khorasan, is about 50 years of age.
Muaizid-ut-Tujjar, Haji, Muhammad Kazim, Yezdi —Son of Agha
Mehdi, Yezdi, is one of the leading merchants of Meshed and Agent of a
firm of Parsi merchants, Messers. Ardashir & Co. of Bombay, Shiraz, Yezd
and Tehran. He holds landed property in the district of Meshed, and is about
40 years of age.
His brother, the late Haji Muhammad Hasan, Rukn-ut-Tujjar, was Agent
for the Peshawar merchants at Meshed.
Mua\VIN-ul-Ayala,Taki Khan —Son of Haji Allah Verdi, banker, is
a native of Tabriz and Agent of Haji Muhammad Kazim, Malik-ut Tujjar of
Tehran, who has acquired considerable landed property in Khorasan, but who
lives chiefly in Tehran where he is the Naiyer-ud-Dowleh’s principal Agent.
Age about 45 years.
Muawin-ut-Tujjar, Haji Mahammad Hasan and Muin-ut-Tujjar,
Haji Ali Akbar —Sons of the late Mulla Ahmad, banker of Herat. They are at
present the leading native bankers of Meshed, have considerable influence, and
are farmers of the Nishabur turquoise mines in partnership with the Rais-ut-
Tujjar.
Haji Muhammad Ha=an, is 45 years of age, and Haji Ali Akbar 40.
There is also a third brother, Haji Abdur Rahim, who is 35 years of age.
Muazzam-ul-Mulk, Mirza, Saiyid Razi Khan —Son of Haji Mirza,
Muhammad Ali, Fakhr-ud-Dowleh, is a Saiyid and a native of Shiraz. Was
Karguzar (Foreign Office Agent) in Seistan during 1901-1902 and is at present
Karguzar of Daragez and Kelat. Age about 65 years.
Muazzaz ul-Mulk, Haji, Karimdad Khan. —Son of Muhammad Husan
Khan, is a native of Jajarm in the Bujnurd district and about 60 years of age.
Was for several years in the service of Yar Muhammad Khan,
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.
-i-Mufakh-
kham Chief of Bujnurd. In 1897 when the Chief of Bujnurtl murdered his son
Suliman Khan, Muazzaz-ul-Mulk quarrelled with him and came to Meshed, where
he has now settled. He is at present Governor of Turshiz and of the Baluch
tribes of Khorasan, which live in the Turshiz, Turbut-i-Haideri, Jam, Eakharz,
Khaf, Tabas, Zorabad, Nishabur and Sabzawar districts. Large numbers of the
families of this tribe are said to have been brought from Baluchistan by the
Mahmud of Ghazni (see Gazetteer of Persia) to Seistan, whence they were
moved to Khurasan by Karim Khan Zend. They now number about 3,000
families.
His eldest son, Aul Husain Khan who is
is being educated in St. Petersburg.
18 years
of age, is a Sartip and
-X
Muhammad Ali, Aka Mirza —Son of the late Haji Mirza, Saiyid
Muhammad, Kaim Makam-ut-Taulia, is a Rezavi Saiyid and chief of the Rezavi
Saiyids of Meshed, and also holds the post of Kaim Makam-ut-Taulia, or
assistant to the guardian of the shrine of Imam Reza at Meshed. Age about 47
years.
Muhammad Amir Kkan,
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.
—Son of the late
Wazir
Minister.
, Yar Muham
mad Khan of Herat is an Afghan refugee. His real name is
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.
Muhammad
Umar Khan, but when he came to Persia he changed his name in order to avoid
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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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- 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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