Sykes' History of Persia Vol 2 (pdf) - Heritage Institute

INDEX 553
246 et seq. ; Sulayman the Magnificent
invades Persia, 247 ; travels of Anthony
Jenkinson, 249-253 ; reign of Shah
Abbas the Great, 256-268 ; Uzbeg invasions,
258 ;
the Sherley brothers,
259 et seq. ; campaigns against Turkey,
262-264 ; struggles for ascendancy in
the Persian Gulf, 269 - 283 ; early
English attempts to trade, 273 et seq. ;
battle of Jask, 275-277 ; capture of
Hormuz, 277-280 j
Dutch and French
relations with Persia, 280-281 ; Sir
Dodmore Cotton's embassy, 281-283 ;
architecture and art under the Safavi
Dynasty, 284-295 ;
decline of Safavi
Dynasty, 296-304 ; Afghanistan, 305-
306 ;
career of Gurgin Khan, 307-308 ;
Mir Vais, 308-3105 the Abdalis of
Herat, 311; Mahmud's expeditions,
312 et seif. ;
battle of Gulnabad, 315 j
investment and surrender of Isfahan,
316-319 ;
downfall of Safavi Dynasty,
319-320; reign of Mahmud, 321 et
seq. ;
Peter the Great and Persia, 322
et seq. ;
Turkish invasions, 327-329 ;
accession and reign of Ashraf, 329-335 ;
will of Peter the Great, 335-338 rise
5
and career of Nadir Shah, 339-369 j
Shah Tahmasp's campaign against the
Turks, 343 battle of
;
Karkuk, 344-
345 ; victory over Topal Osman, 345 ;
abolition of Shia doctrines, 347-348 ;
Nadir Shah's campaigns, 349 et seq. ;
battle of Karnal, 353-354 Nasrulla
;
Khan, 355-356; rebellions in Persia,
362 ;
Nadir's last campaign against
Turkey, 362-363 ; journeys of John
Elton, 363-364 ; Jonas Hanway, 364-
365 ;
death and character of Nadir
Shah, 367-369 ;
Zand Dynasty, 370-
384; Ahmad Khan, 370-371; reign
and career of Shah Rukh, 371 et seq. ;
reign of Karim Khan, 375 Kharak
;
occupied by the Dutch, 375-376 ; English
at Bushire, 376-377 ;
Zaki Khan,
377-378 ;
Ali Murad, 379 ; Jafar, 379-
380 ;
accession of Lutf Ali, 380 ; Haji
Ibrahim, 380-382 ; campaigns of Lutf
Ali, 382 et seq. ; founding of Kajar
Dynasty, 385-394; Aga Mohamed
Khan, 385 et seq. ;
death and character,
391-393 ;
accession of Path Ali Shah,
393 ;
British and French missions, 395
;
et seq.
mission of Mehdi Ali Khan,
397 ;
Malcolm's first mission, 398-
399 ; Haji Ibrahim's downfall, 400 ;
first French mission, 401-402 ;
Gardanne
Mission, 402-403 ; fight for
power in Afghanistan, 403-404 ;
Malcolm's
second mission, 404-405 ;
mission
of Sir Harford Jones, 405-406 ;
Malcolm's third mission, 406-407 ;
Definitive Treaty, 407-409 ; campaigns
with Russia, 410-422 ;
trivan campaign,
412-413; battle of Aslanduz,
413; Afghan campaigns, 415-416;
battle of Shamkar, 417-418 ; capture
of Erivan and surrender of Tabriz, 419 ;
Treaty of Turkomanchai, 419-421;
murder of Russian envoy, 421-422 ;
aggression on Afghanistan, 423 et seq. ;
campaign in Khorasan, 423-424 death
;
of Abbas Mirza, 425-426; death and
character of Fath Ali Shah, 426-427 ,
accession of Mohamed Shah, 427-428 ;
rise of Dost Mohamed, 429 - 430 ;
Burnes mission, 430-431 ;
second siege
of Herat, 431-434
first
; Afghan War,
434-437 British mission to
;
Herat,
437 rebellion of
; Aga Khan, 438-439 ;
relations with Turkey, 439 ;
death of
Mohamed Shah, 439-440 ;
accession
of Nasir-u-Din, 441 the ; Bab, 443
et seq. ;
Russian naval station at Ashurada,
447-448 fall of
; Amir-i-Nizam,
448-449 Russian
; negotiations, 449-
450 breach with Great
; Britain, 450-
455 Russian advance in Central
; Asia,
458-459; first Khivan expedition, 459-
460 Russian
; activity, 460 et seq. ;
crushing of the Turkoman by Russia,
463-464; Makran boundary commission,
465-466 Sistan
; question, 466-
471 ; telegraphs, 472-475 ; opening of
the Karun, 476-477 ; Imperial Bank
of Persia, 477-478 ;
assassination of
Nasir-u-Din, 478-480 ;
Persian finance,
480 et seq. ; machinery of government,
487 et seq. ;
administration of justice,
490 et seq. ; taxation, 492-494 ; village
life, 494-499 ; history
of the constitutional
movement, 500-511
"Persian Gates,"
i.
278
Persian Gulf,
i. 4, 5, 6, 10 ; description
of, 26-27 ; 30, 33, 38, 40, 42, 43, 44,
45, 46, 47, 50, 65, 70, 81, 95, 168,
232, 298-299, 338, 412, 418, 445, 493,
ii.
531 ; 2, 269, 270 weakness of
;
Persia in, 303-304 ;
Persian authority
asserted on littoral, 456-457
Persis (classical form of Fars), i,
307,
326
Pertinax, Emperor, i. 414
Peshawar, i. 289 ; captured by Nadir, ii.
353
Peshin, ii. 356
Peter the Great,
ii.
300 footnote ;
embassies
to Persia, 303, 308 ;
will of, 322, 335-
338 ; capture of Derbent, 322-323 ;
occupation of Resht and Baku, 323 ;
treaty with Shah Tahmasp, 323-324,
327, 346, 363, 458
Peter the Hermit, ii. 115
Petra, i. 418, 489, 490 ;
ii. 3