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Constituent Assembly elections were held in Persia in 1925. The elections were mandated by the Parliament of Iran on 31 October 1925. [1]According to Homa Katouzian, though the elections "had been manipulated", the assembly was represented by "commanding heights of the society, including many khans and provincial magnets, some prominent religious leaders, former leaders and figures of the ...
Shaheed Ashfaqulla Khan (22 October 1900 – 19 December 1927) was a freedom fighter in the Indian independence movement against British rule and the co-founder of the Hindustan Republican Association, later to become the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association.
The Qajar dynasty (Persian: دودمان قاجار, romanized: Dudemâne Ǧâjâr; 1789–1925) [a] was an Iranian [1] royal dynasty founded by Mohammad Khan (r. 1789–1797) of the Qoyunlu clan of the Turkoman [2] Qajar tribe.
Humayun met his brothers in Lahore but they could not gather a force to fight Sher Khan because they all had different personal interests. Kamran became concerned with the safety of Punjab and Afghanistan and Hindal wanted to take control of Sindh. After the battle of Kannauj, Humayun spent the next 15 years of his life in exile. [13]
In 1925, Reza Khan, a former Brigadier-General of the Persian Cossack Brigade, deposed the Qajar dynasty and declared himself king , adopting the dynastic name of Pahlavi, which recalls the Middle Persian language of the Sasanian Empire. [6] He had chosen the last name Pahlavi for himself in November 1919. [7]
The Pahlavi dynasty (Persian: دودمان پهلوی) was the last Iranian royal dynasty that ruled for roughly 53 years between 1925 and 1979. The dynasty was founded by Reza Shah Pahlavi, a non-aristocratic Mazanderani soldier [1] in modern times, who took on the name of the Pahlavi language spoken in the pre-Islamic Sasanian Empire to strengthen his nationalist credentials.
Reza Shah Pahlavi [a] (15 March 1878 – 26 July 1944) was an Iranian military officer and the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty.As a politician, he previously served as minister of war and prime minister of Qajar Iran and subsequently reigned as Shah of Pahlavi Iran from 1925 until he was forced to abdicate after the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran in 1941.
Heavy fighting also took place in the Southern Province from 23 to 26 August, and 4 days later 1500 troops under Mir Zamer Khan defected to the government. [3] On 16-17 September, Zamer Khan's force inflicted a major defeat on the rebels, killing 400-500 rebels at the cost of only 100 of his own men. [ 3 ]