The Qizilbashes of Kandahar
The Sheeah part of the Kazalbashes here, cannot be
called a faction, as they are either artisans or Meerzas (writers) having no
power in the Government; the principal man among them is Hajee Abbas, who has
been ruined in mercantile speculations. Rahim Dil Khan’s Naib, Dost Mahomed and
his brother Jan Mahomed once employed on an embassy to Calcutta, though Kazalbash
by tribe, have become Affghanized by habit and interest: though pleased and
evidently shewing they are so at the prospect of Mahomed Shah taking Herat, the
faction are afraid to establish a communication.
(Signed) R. LEECH, Assistant.
N. B. The resources, military and financial, of Candahar, will be
treated in a separate paper.
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(Signed) A. BURNES
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H. TORRENS,
Deputy Secretary to Government of India, with the Governor General.
Notice on the affair of Candahar in 1838, with a sketch of the preceding
Dooranee history by Lieut. R. Leech. // Reports and Papers, Political,
Geographical, & Commercial Submitted to Government by Alexander Burnes,
Lieutenant Leech, Doctor Lord, and Lieutenant Wood, Employed on Missions in the
Years 1835-36-37 in Scinde, Affghanisthan, and Adjacent Countries. — Calcutta:
G.H. Huttmann, Bengal Military Orphan Press, 1839, p. 60.
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