Khurasan and Sistan

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE PERSIAN NORTH-EAST FRONTIER. The nearest inhabitants on the Persian side to the Russians at Pul-i-Khatun are the Jamshidis at Shuriya. These Jamshidis originally came from Herat with the Hissam-us-Sultanah after the siege of 1857, and they afford a good instance of the wandering nature of...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE PERSIAN NORTH-EAST FRONTIER. The nearest inhabitants on the Persian side to the Russians at Pul-i-Khatun are the Jamshidis at Shuriya. These Jamshidis originally came from Herat with the Hissam-us-Sultanah after the siege of 1857, and they afford a good instance of the wandering nature of the tribesmen of these parts. They numbered about 2000 families at that time, and were first settled in the Sar-i-Jam district under their chief Allahyar Khan. They were driven from there to Khanagusha and Karra- bukha near Mashhad by Turkoman raids, and from there a large number returned to Herat. Allahyar Khan himself at last went back as well, and then the remaining families were moved by the Persian Government away back to Kushkhana, in Kuchan, and placed under the Routi chief, Ismail Khan. Eventually Allahyar Khan fled back from Herat, returned to Mashhad and was reinstated as chief of the Jamshidis in Khurasan, but the numbers of the tribe were reduced to 150 families by the famine of 1871. Allahyar Khan died at Karrabukba, and was succeeded by his son, Zulfikar Khan. In 1885 the tribes were moved to Paskamar, where their numbers still further dwindled down to 80 families. Zulfikar Khan subsequently opened negotiations with the Russians, andhe and his tribesmen were sent back in 1889 by the Persian Government from Paskamar to Karrabukha, Zulfikar Khan shortly afterwards fled from there to Russian territory, whereupon his younger brother, Muhammad Azim Khan, was appointed chief of the tribe in his place, and they were settled at Jellalabad and Jizaabad, some ten farsakhs to the south - east of Mashhad. Zulfikar Khan, however, afterwards returned from Russian territory and settled with his tribe at Shuriya and Paskamar on the Kashaf Rud, and both he and his younger b...