Central Asian Portraits; the Celebrities of the Khanates and the Neighbouring States
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: February 21, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781421230917
Subjects: Demetrius Charles de Kavanagh Boulger,Central Asian Portraits,the Celebrities of the Khanates and the Neighbouring States; History / Asia; History / Far East
First sentence: WHEN on the ruins of the conquests of Nadir Shah there arose, in the region lying between the Persian border on the one side, and the territory of Delhi on the other, an autonomous state, generally called Afghanistan, the family of the Sudosyes attained supreme power therein partly through the peculiar reputation it had acquired in the eyes of the Afghans, and partly through the pre-eminent ability of its chief Ahmed Shah.