Sunday, February 10, 2019

Haji Abul Fath Khan Chulai (Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Philip Picot, 1898)


Haji Abul Fath Khan Chulai




HAJJI ABU’L FATH KHAN, CHULAÏ―
Present chief of the Chulai tribe. This tribe was moved from Turkestan to Khorassan during the Mongol reign. Consists of about 500 families, occupying a buluk of Meshed called, after the tribe, Chulai Khaneh.
Hajji Abu’l Fath Khan has often been governor of Chulai Khaneh, but, in 1897, was superseded by Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, brother of Muhammad Mehdi Khan, governor of Kelat (q.v.).
Age 40.


Biographical Notices of Members of the Royal Family, Notables, Merchants, and Clergy, dated December 1897 and compiled by Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Philip Picot, Military Attaché at Teheran [Tehran] for the use of the British Legation // Correspondence and Papers on Persia. ― Simla, 1898, p. 92.

No comments:

Post a Comment