A genuine history of Nadir-Cha, present shah or emperor of Persia, formerly call’d Thamas Kouli-Kan (1742)

A genuine history of Nadir-Cha, present shah or emperor of Persia, formerly call'd Thamas Kouli-Kan (1742)
Title:A genuine history of Nadir-Cha, present shah or emperor of Persia, formerly call’d Thamas Kouli-Kan. With a particular account of his conquest of the mogul’s country. Together with several Letters between Nadir-Cha and the great mogul, and from Nadir-Cha to his son. 3rd edition
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Translator:Translated from the Original Persian manuscript into Dutch, by order of the honourable John Albert Sechterman, president of the Dutch factory at Bengal, and now done into English.
Editor:With an introduction by the editor, containing a description and compendious history of Persia and India.
Language:English
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Place:London
Publisher:Printed for and sold by J. Watts & B. Dod
Year:MDCCXLII [1742]
Pages:[8], XL, 64
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Note: The work was dedicated to Sir Matthew Decker by its editor, a certain “JM.” Decker (1679-1749) was a director of the East India Company, a successful merchant in his own right, as well as a writer of tracts in defense of a form of free trade, and it would seem that the initiative for the publication of the Genuine History came from him, The editor thus notes in his preface that “the following curious Piece of History was entrusted to my Care through Your Recommendation.” The work divided into two sections. The first part, for which the editor was apparently largely responsible, was made up of a set of introductory remarks regarding the geography of Persia and India, and genealogies of the Persian and Indian (Mughal) royal families. The second part, which dealt directly with Nadir Shah and more particularly with his invasion of India, was derived from a Dutch account produced for Jan Albert Sichterman, the head of the Dutch East In Company’s Bengal establishment between 1734 and 1744, and entiled Verbaal wegens den Inval van den Persiaanschen Schach Nadir (which had appeared in Amsterdam in 1740).

The introduction describes the administrative unit Armenia, which, according to official sources, did not exist during the Safavid period, not during the Nadir Shah (or Afsharids), not during the Zands, not during the Qajars. The administrative unit with the name Armenia (Armenian oblast) was formed in 1828 on the lands the Iravan and Nakhchivan khanates which were occupied by the Russian Empire. The region existed between 1828-1840.