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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 .’ [52r] (108/126)
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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KHORASSAN.
101
29. MU A YEN UT TUJJAK, HAJJI MUHAMMAD HASSAN
MUIN UT TUJJAR, HAJJI ALI AKBAR—
Are sons of the late Hajji Mulla Ahmad, hanker, of Herat. They
are at present the leading native hankers 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, Hajji Abdur Hakim, who is 30 years
old.
Hajji Muhammad Hassan is 40 years of age; Hajji Ali Akhar
is 35.
30. HAJJI MUHAMMAD AMIN KHAN—
Present chief of the Raoti trihe of Khorassan (q.v.). The Raoti trihe,
incorrectly called Jamshidi hy 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.
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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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