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Show 29 made well aware of his ruthlessness. extracted from the a the females males, tower of the heads of 900 Ali [the prince] was Khan] came across a distress, ordered followed his a return my its mean large example. he had been cheated: own were handed prisoners [was] erected captured" (Wilber, 1972:92). sometimes stretched to the mad 'Twenty thousand pairs absurd; for example, given to him. the spot where Lutf His desire for money one beggar, and, apparently sum were to the soldiers and over on of eyes day "he [Agha Muham moved by the man's Of course, all the others That night the ruler complained to his minister that 'that scoundrel of money, but to from the others. a beggar not only promised give half of what he should And now receive he is not to be found'" to through (Wilber, 1972: 93). Agha Muhammad Khan's most of the successor, Fath Ali Shah Qajar kings "viewed Persia, love, protect and improve, but as a not as his (1799-1834), like country, which he should property of which he had a lease, uncertain in its duration, and of which it behoved him to make the most he could while in his power. family by conquest, and his only amount of The throne having he treated the' whole concern was come into the hands of his country like how to extort from them the a conquered nation; greatest possible money" (Lampton, 1953:135). After the death of Fath Ali Shah, his (1834-1848), came to the throne. grandson, Muhammad Shah ''His activity may have been restricted |
