Word: kajar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...handsome features and calm imperious brow do not betray the daredevil brain within. A field marshal's uniform and the crown jewels of Persia served further to disguise this likeness of the Shahinshah Riza Shah Pahlavi, "the King of Kings," a onetime Russo-Persian adventurer, who recently overthrew the Kajar dynasty (TIME, Nov. 9, PERSIA) and has established himself on the throne of Persia with a civil list equivalent to $600,000 a year...
...Decree: "In the name of the welfare of the people, the National Consultative Assembly de clares the abolition of the Kajar Sovereignty,* and within the limits of the constitution and laws of Persia entrusts Provisional Government to the person of Reza Kahn Pahlavi. The determining of a form of permanent government shall be made by the Constituent Assembly, which shall for this purpose amend the constitution as may be necessary...
...Shah Ahmad is a Kajar, and the dynasty has ruled in Persia since...
...Teheran, the Persian Assembly, or "Majlis," adopted a resolution deposing the present Kajar dynasty "for the sake of the national welfare," by a vote of 80 to 5. The resolution "entrusted the Government to Reza Khan"- to exactly what extent is not known. Cables report that he has assumed "the office and rank of Shah"; and contrarily that "the Majlis is deliberating as to what shall be the permanent form of Persia's Government," and is leaning toward a republic with Reza Khan as President. The former version is supported by picturesque "details" to the effect that...
Ahmad, ex-Shah of Persia, seventh of the Kajar dynasty, youthful and rotund, learned last week in Paris that the Persian Parliament had deposed him, that he no longer had the right to be termed Sultan. Depatches stated that the 26-year-old exile "has wept continuously since receiving the awful news; great tears roll down his royal cheeks; he has shut himself in his private suite in his house near the Bois de Boulogne; he walks around in circles, lamenting his fate in Oriental fashion." The Baroness d'Erlanger, former Mrs. Peter Cooper Hewitt, whom he had once...