Friday, February 8, 2019

Boghayri Turks (Gazetteer of Persia, 1910)


Boghayri Turks




BŪGHĪRĪ―
A tribe of Turks numbering some 1,300 families occupying the Bam-Safiabad district in Khorasan.
Of these there are two sections, 800 under Bam and 500 under Safiabad. The latter are called Sarakhsis, and presumably came from Sarakhs. According to the Sani’-ud-Dauleh (Matla’-ush-Shams, Volume I, pages 17 and 158), the Bughiri is a sections of the tribe of Garili Turks who were brought from Karakuram to Khorasan by Hulaku Khan (1253-1264). Some 30 years ago, the Safiabad section had a chief of their own, named Lutf ’Ali Khan Sarakhsi, who had a service of 30 savars at the same time. The Bam section had a chief named Allah Yar Khan, son of Muhammad Khan, who had also a service of 30 savars. Both chiefs are now long dead. Allah Yar Khan left a son named Jabbar Khan, who is still alive at Bam, but without any position. Lutf ’Ali Khan left no sons.―(C. E. Yate, 1898.)


Gazetteer of Persia. Volume I. ― Simla: Government of India Monotype Press, 1910, p. 86.

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