Bayat Turks in Khorasan
BAIᾹT TURKS ―
A race of Turks inhabiting the southern part of
Nishapur and the Sar-i-Vilaiat district in Khorasan, numbering about 2,000
families altogether. These Baiat Turks say that they were brought to this
district by Nadir Shah from ‘Iraq, somewhere in the neighbourhood of Tehran,
where they say Baiats are still to be found. In former times they had a chief
of their own, named Aqa Shah Beg, who lived at Bish Aghaj. He was succeeded by his
son Haji Husain Khan, who joined the Salar’s rebellion in Khorasan (1850). He
was succeeded by Muhammad Khan, who died some 15 years ago. This man had a
service of some few savars, but lost it. His son Nasrullah Khan is still
alive, and lives at Bish Aghaj, a few miles north of Chaqaneh, but is only a
private individual. There were two other families of Khans in the tribe. One
named Isma’il Beg lived in Sultan Maidan. He was an adherent of Riza Quli Khan,
of Kuchan, and rebelled with the latter and was reduced by ‘Abbas Mirza (1831).
He was succeeded by Aqa Muhammad, whose son Riza Quli Sultan is now alive at
Sultan Maidan. The other family lived in Qilidar and their representative at
present is Hashim Sultan, son of Mirza Ahmad.―(MacGregor; C. E. Yate,
1894.)
Gazetteer of Persia. Volume I. ― Simla: Government of India Monotype
Press, 1910, pp. 65―66.
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