Sunday, May 22, 2011

The Dynasty of the Kajars

The truth... O the truth! Don't you just hate it to your bones when you see someone tries to alter history only to fit or maintain his current miserable affairs. 
Us, electronic engineers, would know that no circuit works without  proper biasing. But, however, I can not believe how much this singular word bothers me once used in any context other than electronics! 
Golestan & Torkamanchay agreements, as were taught to us, somewhat appropriately, were quite shameful turning points in our land's history. If not for them, Azerbaijan and so many other countries at the margin of the Caspian sea, as well as the Bahrain's might have been within the Islamic Republic of Iran by now (I guess they have been pretty lucky in that sense, aye). Anyways, our job is just to read, comprehend and learn in order to implement later, don't you think?!
Well, enough jabbering around. My sole aim was to introduce to you "The Dynasty of the Kajars". It is a translation and added notes of "Sir Harford Bridges" of the Eastern India Company, of parts of the Persian reign, made available to him by "Fatty Ali Shah" (as printed by Bridges himself) of Kajars. I am not sure if you would enjoy as much as I did, reading this book, but it certainly gives you a rather exquisite and divergent perspective. 
Oh, I almost forgot to mention the most important part; this book, the original version was only printed a couple of hundred copies. It was the absolutely amazing and awesome "Google" (Google books) that converted it to digital, which version is available to us online now. I, unfortunately, could not find any translated version to Farsi yet, but I am sure someone must have tried to convert it back to Farsi. If you know who please kindly let me know, otherwise I would be delighted to embark on it myself, LOL. 
I am not even sure, if any of the hardcopies are available in any library or museum in Iran, but I am sure there are plenty that you may be able to locate in British libraries.
I would be glad to hear your ideas about the book, about Sir Bridges and of course the Kajars and especially Fatty Ali Shah (Fat-ih-ali shah).

        

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