... been the habitat of wild Tarkoman tribes, and has sunk from the condition of a flourishing city to a wretched village. The Persian Shah still claims it as Persian territory. Bokhara is still nominally independent, and the Russians have never interfered in ...

... put the fire out by themselves: it is of no use our trusting to man of straw like Abdul Rahman, or broken reeds like the Persian Shah. We have destroyed in one day tbe rickety edifice of polity which old Daft Muhammad built and shored up with infinite pains ...

... the first Madras Fusiliers formed part of the Field force sent, under Sir James Outram,to Bushire, in 1866, to coerce the Persian Shah into the abandonment of Herat ; and the Fusiliers had no sooner returned to Madras than they were hurried off to Calcutta ...

... that a Deh-bashi (serjeant) of Jezailchis ' with a dozen men who had been out foraging, or on piquet, when the army of the Persian Shah was campaigning against the Turkomans near Merv, lost their way on their return to the army, and spent the night in the ...

... Hunwayun was a fugitive in Persia craving the assistance of the Safavi Shah Thalimaseb to regain his Indian Empire, the Persian Shah stipulated as a cordition of any assistance given that the celebration of the martyrdom of Hussain should be encouraged ...

... autonomy which would never be in danger from the power of an Afghan Amir. They have in the past maintained it against Persian Shahs and Mogul Padishahe, as well as against their own national rulers, but it will not long stand against the insidious advances ...