'Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from September 1850 to June 1852. Edited by the Secretary. Volume X.' [‎8] (141/458)

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LIEUTENANT H. Gr. RAYERTY
the countries west of the Indus, including Peshawur, Kabul and Kan
dahar, he returned to Persia by the same route as he had advanced, and
after crossing the Indus at Attak, he built the small fort of Khairabad,
opposite the latter place.
In the year 1748, Ahmed Shah Abdalhi, who by his own talents
raised himself from the office of Chobdar or Stick-bearer to Nadir, to
the throne of AfFghanistan, having made himself master of Kandahar
and Kabul, advanced on Peshawur, from which he drove Nusseer Khan,
the Nazim or Governor of the Mogul Emperors, across the Indus, after
Capturing the city. He was also so fortunate as to find here a large
sum of money on its way to Persia, which was appropriated to his own
immediate wants, and furnished him with funds to carry on his intended
operations in India. He placed a Nazim of his own to govern the
province, and left behind a body of troops for its protection, under one
of his Sirdars Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. . He died in 1773, and was succeeded by his son Timur,
a weak and timorous prince, throughout whose reign anarchy and con
fusion reigned supreme, and the effects of which were felt at Peshawur
as well as in other parts of Affghanistan.
In 1779, the Sahibzadah of Chumkunee, (a village about six miles east
of the city of Peshawur, and one of the best in the whole province.) un
der the pretence of an expedition into the Punjaub entered into a con
spiracy against Timur Shah, and having gained over the chief of the
K hull eel tribe, named Paizaliah Khan, raised a body of Affghans, mostly
composed of Afreedees and Shaimvarees, and attempted to surprise the
Balia Hissar, under the pretence of showing his troops to Timur, who
resided in the fortress at the time. This treachery was, however, fortu
nately discovered, through the vigilance of the guards of the Ghoolam
Khanah and a few Dooranee Affghans, who repulsed the rebels with great
slaughter. Shah-i- Toman 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. , son and successor of Timur, arrived at Pesh
awur in December 1793, for the purpose of collecting an army for the
invasion of India, at the instigation of Tippoo Sultan,
In pursuit of this phantom of conquest, which appears to have haunt
ed the imagination of this unfortunate prince for many years, he ad
vanced from Peshawur with an army, for the first time, in the latter part
of 1775 ; but had scarcely effected the passage of the Indus, when he
received news of the invasion of Khorassan, by the Shah of Persia, on
which he retraced his steps, and returned to Peshawur, which he reached