The episode traces the rise of the Qajar dynasty in Iran after the collapse of the Safavids, following Agha Mohammad Khan from his childhood captivity and brutal castration to his campaigns against the Zand dynasty, including the 1794 execution of Lotf Ali Khan Zand and the Qajar takeover of Shiraz. It covers his choice of Tehran as capital, his 1789 coronation, and the marriage alliances and clerical backing he used to hold power. The story then moves through the nineteenth-century reign of Naser al-Din Shah, the dynasty's cultural peak at Golestan Palace, and the Russian and British pressures that eroded its territory and authority. It ends with the Constitutional Revolution, the fall of the dynasty in 1925, and the lasting legacy of its palaces, politics and diaspora.
More: https://thelineagearchive.com/dynasty/qajar-dynasty
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