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Letter from Akram al-Dawlah to Iran-i naw, 1909
From Akram al-Dawlah, daughter of the late Mirza Fath‘ali Khan Sahib Divan, addressed to Sani‘ al-Dawlah about her and her younger brother's usurped share of inheritance
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Banu-yi ‘Uzma's stipend, 1911
On cutting the stipend of Banu-yi ‘Uzma and her sons, who have become Russian nationals and stopped paying their property taxes
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Maryam Khanum's sentence, 1911
The court has ordered Maryam Khanum to relinquish the ownership of parts of the house belonging to the late A[qa] Shaykh ‘Ali and to pay its rent to Farkhundah Khanum.
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‘Aliyah Khanum's warning about her share of inheritance, 1901
‘Aliyah Khanum's share, her mahr and inheritance, of Amin Hazrat's belongings is five hundred tumans, and she wants to receive it before the sale of the properties; otherwise she will demand it from the buyers.
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Complaint by Shaykh Fazl Allah's wife, 1909
Complaint against Mir Hadi, son of Shaykh Fazl Allah, who has usurped the inheritance, without permission, from the underage children
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Complaint by Unsiyah Baygum, 1910
Alaviyah Unsiyah Baygum, wife of Nayib Javad, talks about being evicted from her own house, along with her five young children, after her husband abandoned them
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Letter from Fatimah to Iran-i naw, 1910
Letter from Fatimah, daughter of ‘Ali Asghar from Tabriz, about police raid on her house
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Arrest of ‘Aziz Aqa for carrying a gun, 1911
‘Aziz Aqa, a female entertainer, purchased a six-shooter carrier after the brothers of her divorced husband, Sayyid Hasan from Ganjah, had threatened to kill her. She was arrested for carrying the gun on her way to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Speech by Zahra, a student of Madrisah-i Shah Abad, 1910
Zahra, daughter of Farrukh Khan, urging women to donate to the government
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Polyandry in India, 1910
An article published in the German local newspaper, Anzeiger, talks about the custom of polyandry in certain tribes in India