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Petition of Karbalayi Musayyab and Karbalayi Yusuf
Petition of Karbalayi Musayyab and Karbalayi Yusuf, addressed to a woman, regarding the master's order to collect aid from the peasants to give to the poor and the way the sheriff and village chief have been sabotaging the process
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Petition to Nuzhat al-Dawlah
Petition by ‘Abd Allah Qazzaq (cossack), resident of Sifidan village, to Nuzhat al-Dawlah regarding the cheating and bribery by Hasan Sultan over the grain. At the end, he requests a thirty-tuman loan from Nuzhat al-Dawlah.
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Afshar elders to ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma
Letter from Afshar elders to ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma which elaborates on how Taymur Khan (from Lar) has treated them with extreme cruelty, including making Zawq ‘Ali’s wife [daughter of Shahnah (sheriff) Ghulam] marry his servant, Muhammad Khan, and prevented them from going to their winter pastures. They ask ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma for justice.
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Hashim to ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma
Letter from Hashim to ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma which includes a report of how Shahnah (sheriff) Ghulam made her daughter, who was already the wife of Zawq‘ali, marry Shahnah (sheriff) Muhammad, son of Shahnah (sheriff) Haydar. After this unacceptable marriage, she and Shahnah (sheriff) Muhammad had to escape to Minab. Hashim asks Farmanfarma how to deal with the case of Shahnah (sheriff) Muhammad and his brother, Shahnah (sheriff) ‘Abbas.
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Complaint letter asking for justice
A group of elders complain to the addressee about how their nomadic tribe is prevented from accessing their winter pastures by Timur Khan's actions. Also, they mention the unacceptable marriage of Zawq ‘Ali’s wife (daughter of Shahnah (sheriff) Ghulam) and Muhammad (son of Shahnah (sheriff) Haydar), and ask the addressee for justice.
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Eight landowners to ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma
Letter from eight landowners (from Charamlah) to ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma. The letter includes a report about peasants of Charamlah buying sheep, the problems of this transaction for the peasants, the possibility of their migration to Kurdistan, and having twenty women sent among the peasants to stop them from migrating.
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Telegram by Kalhur clan elders, 1920 or 1921
Telegram regarding the distress caused by Amir A‘zam's government on the Kalhur clan, including taking money from the peasants and torturing the village chiefs; the clan elders are holding a sit-in at the Kirmanshah court, and their wives and children have been roaming the desert.
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Petitions submitted to Saʻid al-Sultan
Petitions submitted to Saʻid al-Sultan: one from Maymunabad villagers objecting to Bihjat Khanum's way of dividing donkeys--Bihjat Khanum is the wife of Saʻid al-Sultan; one by Ziba Vaziri, a relative of Asif Aʻzam, requesting payment of the revenue of half of Amirabad [village] following Rustam Khan (her husband)'s death and asking for ʻAli Muhammad Bayg's help— ʻAli Muhammad Bayg is Ziba Vaziri's overseer and Ziba Khanum claims that she inherited half of the village from her late husband, but in this petition she is merely asking for revenue and not for the half of the village itself;...
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Complaint by people of Saqqiz, 1915
Includes two petitions by the people of Saqqiz to the Majlis regarding the troubles caused by the new government, for instance housing the government riders in the peasants' houses and taking their household furnishings and never returning them, the evacuation of a residential place where about forty people, including women and children, lived, and sending agents to the peasant houses when the men are at work and the women are alone at home; along with a letter of inquiry from the Majlis to the Ministry of Interior regarding these claims.
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Complaint against Husayn Ra’uf Bayg and the Ottoman camp, 1915
Includes a petition to the Majlis regarding the harassment by Husayn Ra’uf Bayg and the Ottoman army in Karand, ruining and pillaging villages, the arrest and execution of the people of the Kalhur, Sanjabi, and Guran clans, and the capture of fifty women from the families residing in the vicinity of the Karand caravansary and accusing them of theft. Also includes a petition to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding Ra’uf Bayg and Ottomans harassing people who live near the borders and the attack by Isma‘il Haqi Bayg on the Sanjabi clan, ruining and setting fire to the village of Hajim...
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