references40 Khan, Rise of the Saddozais, p. 118.
41 The Chronicle of Petros di Sarkis Gilantez, ed. and trans. C. O. Minasian
(Lisbon, 1959), p. 19.
42 Ibid., p. 11.
43 For translations of the correspondence of ‘Abd Allah Khan and Hayat Khan,
see Khan, Rise of the Saddozais, pp. 154–6.
44 Ibid., p. 167, translated from the Persian text.
45 Ibid., pp. 200–205.
46 For the full terms of the treaty, see ibid., p. 232.
47 Caroe, The Pathans, p. 252.
2 Nadir Shah and the Afghans, 1732–471 Olaf Caroe, The Pathans, 550 bc–ad 1957 (Karachi, 1958), p. 250.
2 See M. Axworthy, The Sword of Persia: Nadir Shah, from Tribal Warrior to
Conquering Tyrant (London and New York, 2006); L. Lockhart, Nadir Shah:
A Critical Study (London, 1938).
3 Ludwig Adamec, Historical and Political Gazetteer of Afghanistan,
vol. v: Kandahar and South-central Afghanistan (Graz, 1980), pp. 509–12.
4 Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Persian Myths (London, 1993), p. 32.
5 Axworthy, Sword of Persia, pp. 211–12.
6 The Four Aimaq tribes are: Firozkohi, Jamshidi, Sunni Hazaras and
Taimani. A fifth tribe, the Timuri, is often confused and conflated with the
Taimani. For an account of the Chahar Aimaq tribes, see Government of
India, Records of the Intelligence Party of the Afghan Boundary Commission,
vol. iv: Reports on the Tribes (Simla, 1891), pp. 43–276.
7 For the Balkh campaign, see Axworthy, Sword of Persia, pp. 191–2, 218–21;
Jonathan L. Lee, The ‘Ancient Supremacy’: Bukhara, Afghanistan and the
Battle for Balkh, 1732–1901 (Leiden, 1966), pp. 63–72; Robert D. McChesney,
Waqf in Central Asia (Princeton, nj, 1958), pp. 198–216.
8 Literally ‘donkey load’. A kharwar differs from region to region but the author
probably uses the Persian kharwar, which is equivalent to around 300 kg.
9 Muhammad Kazim, Nāma-yi ‘Ālam-ārā’-yi Nādirī (Moscow, 1962–6),
vol. iii, fols 91b–100a; McChesney, Waqf , pp. 204–11.
10 McChesney, Wa q f, p. 43; Lee, The ‘Ancient Supremacy’, pp. 18–19, 24 and
nn. 19, 24, 35.
11 Père Louis Bazin, ‘Mémoires sur les dernières années du règne de Thamas
Kouli-Kan’, Lettres édifiantes et curieuses écrites de missions étrangères, ed.
C. Le Gobier and J. B. Du Holde (Paris, 1780), vol. vi, p. 304; for Nadir’s last
years, see Axworthy, Sword of Persia, chaps 10 and 11.
12 I have mostly followed Bazin’s eyewitness account of Nadir Shah’s
assassination.
13 Edward G. Browne, A Literary History of Persia, vol. iv: Modern Times,
1500–1924 [1924] (Cambridge, 1969), p. 137.
14 Ibid.
15 Munshi Mahmud ibn Ibrahim al-Jami al-Husaini, Tārīkh-i Ahmad Shāhī
[1974] (Peshawar, 2001), fol. 17.