Túrk

This may have been effected by the Túrks; but it is more probable that the Brahmans recaptured the city, as, on attaining supremacy, and speedily becoming a powerful and conquering dynasty, and having also in view the prestige attaching to the ancient metropolis, which has formed the subject of remark of the Mohammedan authors now cited, their early endeavours would naturally be directed to the re-acquisition of so desirable a possession.

The Túrks of Constantinople and Persia have so completely lost the Tartar features, that some physiologists have pronounced them to belong to the Caucasian or European, and not to the Tartar, race. The Túrks of Bokhára and all Transoxiana, though so long settled among Persians, and though greatly softened in appearance, retain their original features sufficiently to be recognisable at a glance as Tartars.

The only two contented and prosperous provinces of Persia are Azarbaiján, where rulers and people are alike Túrks, and Karman, which though the the^([sic]) Governor is of a Túrkish tribe, is not interfered with by the central Government at Tehrán

Samanta’s renown as a king, whether he were a conqueror or not, was probably connected with the progress of Brahmanism, in opposition to Búddhism, the former of which is shown by Colonel Sykes to have made such important advances just about this period: at the same time there is evidence sufficient, aided by that afforded by Albírúní, to justify us in supposing that the Túrk kings of Kábul were Búddhists.

This chief (whom, anticipating the title, I shall henceforth call Asof Jáh, and whose descendants are known to Europeans as Nizáms of the Deckan) was of a respectable Túrk family, and was the son of Gházi u dín, a favourite officer of Aurangzíb, under which emperor he also distinguished himself.

The seven Kazilbash tribes, Túrks, placed the Safari dynasty on the throne, and in token thereof were granted the exclusive privilege of wearing a red cloth cap encircled with sheep’s skin, whence the name Kazilbash, red head, by which the so called Persian, but really Túrk colony, at Kabul, is still known—Nadir Sháh who expelled the Afghans from Persia and invaded India was a Kazilbash of the Afshar tribe.