CHAPTER Origin of the Kajar Tribe
Its three
III.
Branches
Its settlements
Astrabad
of Kajars Upper and Lower Kajars Astrabad Unsettled Condition of that Province Ak-kaleh Rhages Rhei Tehran Its
Branch
early Condition Aga Mahomed Khan His Brothers Cruel Treatment to which Aga Mahomed was subjected Kindness shown to him by Kereem Khan Lutf'ali Khan Cruelty of Aga Mahomed Haji Ibraheem His Defection from the Chief of the Zend Decisive Battle Siege of Kerman Death of Lutf'ali Khan. .
we give credit to the Persian historian of the Kajars we must believe that that tribe can trace its origin as far IF
back as to the time of Terek, the son of Japhet, the son But without referring to remote antiquity, it of Noah. is
sufficient to
known of
state that the
tribe of
to exist for the last several
Kajar has been
hundred years.
It is
Turkish origin, and was early divided into three
branches, the Suldoos, the Tengkoot, and the Jelayer.
The Suldoos never came
to
Persia.
The Tengkoot
branch, which only consisted of thirty or forty families, The became incorporated with the Moghul tribes. Jelayer became settled in Iran and Turan, and seem at first to have given their name to all the tribe.
A
Kajar or Jelayer
chief, called
Sertak Nooyan, was,
under the Moghuls, naib, or deputy-governor, of all the country from the Oxus to Rhei. He, himself, we are told, resided near the banks of the
Goorgan River, and from
this circumstance dates the connection of the Kajar tribe