'A Journey from Bengal to England, through the Northern part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Persia, and into Russia, by the Caspian-Sea. By George Forster. In the Civil Service of the Honourable the East-India Company in Two Volumes. Vol. II.' [‎76] (89/314)

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tars from Ghizni, and annexed it to the empire of Hindoftan. It
is probable, that it continued fubje£t to the dominion of Delhi,
until the expedition of Timur’s into India, when the northern
quarter of Afghaniftan became a Tartar province.
As the great empire of Tartary fell into rapid decay on the
death of Timur, and no relation being given of the fubfequent
exiftence of a Tartar government in Afghaniftan, we may infer
that it was ruled by its national chiefs until the year 1506, at
which period, Baber, previoufly to his conquefl: of Hindoftan, feized
on Kabul and Ghizni, which occafionally with Kandahar, were
held by his pofterity for the fpace of two hundred and thirty one
years, when Nadir Shah annexed them to the dominion of Perfia.
In arranging thofe heads of Afghan hiftory, it may not be fu-
perfluous to note, that Mahmoud Ghori, bequeathed his territory
eafl: of the Indus to a Have, whom he had adopted, named Kultub
U 1 Dein, the firft Afghan or Patan* king of DehJi, from whom
a fucceflion of princes of the fame nation, continued to reign for
near three hundred years, and ended in Ibraham, of the houfe of
Lodi; who was flain in battle by Baber. The materials of this
/ketch, which aie taKen fiom Shirnfud Dexn’s memoirs of Timur,
Dowe’s Hiftory of Hindoftan, and private defultory remarks, will
not, I feai, communicate much uleful information. Por the want
* The race of Afghans are commonly known m India by the name of Patans, the
meaning or etymology of which designation does not feem to be afcertamed.
indeed