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savagely butchered. At length, in 1795 Agha Mohammed Khan of the Kajar tribe ascended the throne. In 1796 he sent an envoy to Kabul demanding Zaman Shah to agree to the cession of Balkh to Persia, since the possession of that city, he contested, was necessary to him to check the advance of the Amir of Bukhara in that direction.
Agha Mohammed, however, had soon to relinquish the idea of attacking Balkh for he found himself involved in a war with Russia over Georgia. The Shah of Bukhara was also forced to come to terms with Zaman Shah, and retired percipitately beyond the Oxus, renewing the treaty made with Timur Shah.
In 1797 Agha Mohammed was murdered and was succeeded by his nephew, Fateh Ali Khan. During his reign began that closer connection between the British and Persia which had its origin in the fear of an Afghan invasion of India.
In 1797 Zaman Shah advanced to Lahore with the professed purpose of rescuing the house of Timur from the domination of the Sikhs and the Marhattas. His appearance at the head of a
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