"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الجزء II. ج. ج. لوريمر. ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٨‎٦‎٠] (١٢٦٢/٣٧٧)

1860
Early period.
1797—18] 3.
97-98.
accustomed to move, and her external politics became more complicated
than they had hitherto been. As it is impossible to separate the history
of Persia in the Persian Gulf from the history of Persia at large, we
may here review the latter in some of its principal aspects.
Internal history ot Persia, 179 7 —1834.
The internal history of Persia during the reign of Fat-h 'Ali Shall
is roughly divided into periods by two wars with .Russia, to be noticed
hereafter, which ended respectively with the treaty of Gulistan in 1813
and the Treaty of Turkmanchai in 1828.
In spite of various precautions which Agha Muhammad Khan had
taken for securing the succession of his nephew and heir, Fat-h 'Ali
Shah was engaged for some time after he ascended the throne in con
tests with pretenders to the crown and other rebels against his authority,
During the lifetime of Agha Muhammad Khan he had been generally
spoken of as Baba Khan or Baba 'Ali Khan; but, after his coronation
on the 21st of March 1798, the earlier appellation was dropped for that
of Fatrh 'Ali Shah, by which he is known to history.
Almost the first act of the new sovereign was to blind his uncle ; Ali
Quli Khan, a brother of Agha Muhammad Khan not before mentioned by
name, who had unduly delayed to testify his respect by waiting on him;
and immediately afterwards he marched in person against Sadiq Khan,
a military commander who had been implicated in the murder of Agha
Muhammad Khan, and who now clearly aspired on his own account
to the supreme power. Sadiq Khan was defeated in the neighbourhood
of Qazvm; but he made his peace with the Shah by delivering up the |
crown* jewels of Persia, of which he had possessed himself at the death i
of the late ruler, and was then pardoned and even invested with a
Appendix II, contains the text of two French Treaties with Persia. Aitchison 's
vVol. XII, 4th edition) contains the Anglo-Persian engagements of tb
period. The chief sources of information in regard to the local affairs of the Persian
Coast are Mr. J. A. Sal^anha's SeUctions from State Papers, Bombay, regard^
the East India Company's Connection with the Persian Gulf, with a Summary of
hvents WC-mO, printed in 1905, and ^ Precis of Correspondence regarm
the Afair* of the Persian Gulf 1801-1853, printed in 1906 A few additional facts
are contained in E. S Waring^ lour to Sheeraz, 1807 ; Bombay Selections, XXll
1856 ; and lieutenant C. R. Low's History of the Indian Navy 1877
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