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- 4 - SECOND ARTICLE ZAMAN SHAH. (And a policy of Indian penetration) Zaman Shah is the third Saduzai king, who had considerable interest in regards to an advance towards India. He was so intensely devoted to the project that, he would not concern himself with anything beside that idea. Even if he saw anything apart from that project, he would at all times sacrifice it to the main issue which consumed his being. No year would he sit idle without thinking and Planning as to how he could get to the easternmost of his one time province, that is Lahore. The East India Company, which by dint of its great effort had made itself the master of the lar gest parts of Indian territory, working up from the Bay of Bengal; naturally opposed the designs of Zaman Shah; and set out to remove the threat of the danger of Zaman Shah. This article concerns itself with the description of that struggle). There is, of course, no doubt that Ahmad Shah Durrani, the Founder of the Sadu Zai dynasty, on account of his frequent military expeditions, which resulted in the Battles of Panipat, open ed the path of conquest of India; and in the annals of 18 th. century the records of the Afghan's fighting power and qualities were fully acknowledged. From amongst the descendents of Ahmed Shah was his grandson Zaman Shah, the son of Tamur Shah - who upon mounting the throne in 1793. A. H. till those troublesome times, when the insinuation of the foreigners and the rivalry of the people in the country itself brought difficulties in his path; had ever engaged his attention towards an Indian expedition. It seemed that some internal power without doubt at least once a year took him up to the Punjab, so that whilst there, he could plan his further progress into the heart of India and to give it a practical form and shape. It is, of course, undisputed that this urge of Zaman Shah was not entirely out of his own mind alone ; for he wanted that the road that had been trod by his grandfather, and had met with success he, too, should persue it with the like result. But he did