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‘PERSIA. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY, NOTABLES, MERCHANTS, AND CLERGY, COMPILED BY LIEUTENANT-COLONEL H. PICOT, Military Attaché at Teheran .’ [34v] (73/126)
The record is made up of 1 volume (60 folios). It was created in Dec 1897-8 Jul 1898. 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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66
TEHERAN—MERCHANTS.
He owns steam factories for silk-spinning in Resht, and iron
foundries in Astrabad. Is the leading spirit of the syndicate to
whom the Mint has lately been entrusted. Used formerly to farm
the Mint, but having greatly overdone the coinage of copper money,
lie fell into disfavour, and is said to have been mulcted of some
800,000
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
. Is reported to be interested in some factories of
piece-goods in Manchester, from which place he exports to this
country, Constantinople and Egypt. Also owns, or is largely
interested in a silk
factory
An East India Company trading post.
in Paris and glass and sugar factories
in Marseilles. Has representatives in Egypt, Beyrout, Damascus
and Aleppo, to which places he exports tobacco; in Moscow, where
he owns some landed property, and whither he exports all sorts of
Persian produce, silk, wool, etc.; in Odessa, W arsaw, and Astrakhan ;
in Constantinople, with which he does a very large general business,
via Trebizonde, where he is also represented; and in Bombay,
whence he imports tea, shals, etc.
His honesty, however, is in inverse ratio to his wealth.
Age over 70.
21. HAJJI MUHAMMAD HUSAIN, KITAB FURUSH—
A tnerchant of Teheran. Imports piece-goods from Manchester,
Russia, and Bombay, and woollen goods from Constantinople.
Exports tragacanth gum to Russia. Trades locally with Hamadan
and Kermanshah.
Worth 20,000
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
.
22. HAJJI MUHAMMAD HUSAIN, PUST FURUSH—
A merchant of Teheran. Imports embroidery and glassware from
Russia.
Worth 30,000
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
.
23. HAJJI MUHAMMAD ISMAIL, MUGHAZEH—
A merchant of Teheran. Imports piece-goods and sundries from
Constantinople, and has a large local trade with Baghdad, Hamadan,
&c. Exports carpets to Russia and Constantinople.
Worth 30,000
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
.
24. SAYYID MUHAMMAD KASHANI—
Merchant of Teheran, importing shals and piece-goods from
Bombay to a small extent, and also various sundries from Con
stantinople. His principal business, however, is in native wares
with Kashan.
Worth 30,000
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
.
25. HAJJI MUHAMMAD TAKI SHAHRUDI—
A merchant of Teheran who confines his energies and capital almost
entirely to the Sard ed Dowleh’s cotton
factory
An East India Company trading post.
. His working
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Printed collection of biographical notices, as well as comments on élite dynasties and tribes of Persia [Iran], written over a period of twelve months and completed in December 1897 by Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Philip Picot (Military Attaché, Teheran [Tehran]), then Acting Oriental Secretary in Her Majesty’s Legation. Amendments were added up until 23 January 1898. The author presented the manuscript to Charles H Hardinge (First Secretary, Foreign Office, London), 27 January 1898. The latter forwarded it to the Marquis of Salisbury (Prime Minister), 28 January 1898, who received it a month later (28 February 1898). The title page (f 1) is stamped as having belonged previously to the Government of India’s Library of the Foreign Office, Simla, where this copy was received with two other copies (two for Simla and one for Calcutta [Kolkata], three copies in total) and a letter from the Secretary of the Political and Secret Department, dated 8 July 1898 (location not disclosed). The contents are marked secret (originally ‘confidential,’ crossed out), and specified as, ‘For the use of Officers in Her Majesty’s Service only.’
The printed work comprises two ‘inclosures’ [enclosures]: firstly, Picot’s letter of presentation to Hardinge (f 2v), prefaced by Hardinge’s letter of presentation to the Marquis of Salisbury (f 2); secondly, the treatise proper (ff 3r-60v). The contents page (f 3v) lists four main sections, but without corresponding page references. Following a brief introduction (f 4), an alphabetic register [index] of names (ff 4v-11v), and a glossary of titles and terms (ff 12r-13v), the work is divided into eight chapters comprising numbered entries. The first four chapters deal with the royal family in Teheran (forty-five entries over ff 14r-19v), the notables of Teheran (ninety-seven entries over ff 20r-32v), the merchants of Teheran (twenty-eight entries over ff 33r-35v), and the clergy of Teheran (eleven entries over ff 36-37). The remaining four chapters focus on the provinces of Fars (thirty-eight entries over ff 37v-44v), Ispahan [Isfahan] (eleven entries over ff 45-47), Khorasan (fifty-nine entries over ff 47v-57v), and Tabriz (twenty-two entries over ff 58-60).
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- 1 volume (60 folios)
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The entries are recorded in chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume. Contents page (folio 3v) and indices (folios 4v-13v) are included towards the beginning.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 60; 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.
Pagination: the volume also contains an original pagination sequence.
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