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Peasants to Anis al-Dawlah, 1894
A telegram from the peasants of Shaykh Garden in Savah (which was part of the crown lands of Hazrat ‘Abd al-‘Azim) to Anis al-Dawlah. They talk about their debt to the Court and state that after the garden was purchased by Zahir al-Saltanah, the peasants have been suffering from the injustice. The new owner has acquired 70 tumans more than their actual debt, which is beyond their financial means. In this letter, the peasants ask Anis al-Dawlah to act on their behalf before Nasir al-Din Shah. They request justice and for the extra money to be returned to them.
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ʻAziz al-Saltanah's petition to Nayib al-Saltanah
Petition from ʻAziz al-Saltanah, Nasir al-Din Shah's daughter, to Nayib al-Saltanah in which she mentions her having been born shortly after her father was killed, how she had lived all her life with her mother [Mahbub al-Saltanah] and that she had not inherited anything from her father. After the Constitutional Revolution, the Majlis had cut her pension to 1000 tumans. However, Mirza Fath Allah Khan, the provincial treasurer of Gilan, returned her payslip claiming that the money has been paid to Sardar Afkham. ʻAziz al-Saltanah writes about the hardship she has gone through and how she has...