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Date transcribed2011-05-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Kamran Shah    
First Name(s)  Abdali Or Durani    
Year of Birth  ?    
Year of Death  1842    
Entry  Son of Mahmud Shah, grandson of Timur Shah, and great-grandson of Ahmad Shah Abdali, ruler of Afghanistan: he seized Fateh Khan, the Barakzai wazir of Afghanistan, blinded him and then killed him : he succeeded his father, when murdered in 1829, as ruler of Herat. He was cruel and dissipated, and would have given up Herat to the Persians : but his wazir and the presence of Eldred Pottinger during the siege of Herat, from Nov. 1837, to Sep. 1838, prevented him. A treaty, dated Aug. 13, 1839, was negotiated on behalf of the Governor-General by Major E. D'Arcy Todd, envoy to Herat, with Kamran Shah, who opened treacherous correspondence with Persia : Todd's subsequent action was disapproved by Lord Auckland. Kamran was strangled in 1842 by his minister Yar Mahomed Khan Alakozai.     
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