Said Ali Khan Chapishlu
SAID ALI KHAN―
Chief of the Daragez district of Khorasan is about 45
years of age.
The family of the Chief of Daragez are of Turkish
origin (see Gazetteer of Persia and Colonel Yate’s “Khorasan and Seistan”). The
first Chief, Baba Khan Beglar Begi, a petty Khan of Karshi, in Bokhara,
migrated to Khorasan with a few hundred families of his tribe and received a
grant of land from the Governor of Abiverd, in Daragez. Baba Khan became a
favourite of Nadir Shah and accompanied him through his campaigns. As a reward
for his services Nadir Shah appointed him Governor of Herat and afterwards of
other provinces in Persia. He was killed at Bokhara. His nephew, Behbud Khan,
one of the Commanders of Nadir Shah’s troops in Bokhara, was Governor of
Abiverd. He was killed by a Turkoman Aka Muhammad Khan who succeeded his father
occupied the valley of Daragez. He and his family have since remained
hereditary Governors of Daragez. The present Governor two years ago, succeeded,
his elder brother, Muhammad Ali Khan, Mansur-ul-Mulk, who had in his turn
ousted the eldest brother, Allah Yar Khan, about twenty years ago. Allah Yar
Khan and Mansur-ul-Mulk are at present living at Meshed.
Notes on the Leading Notables, Officials, Merchants, and Clergy of
Khorasan, Seistan, Kain, and Kerman. ― Simla: Government Central Press. //
'Seistan', British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, Mss Eur
F111/352, 1899―1904, pp. 8―9.
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