The prospects and perils of India’s new diplomacy © Sounak Mukherjee The prospects and perils of India’s new diplomacy
In February 1833, Agha Hasan Jan stood before the great Persian crown-prince Abbas Mirza’s court at Meshad, armed with nothing but words. Abbas Mirza had long been plotting to plant his flag over Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s Kashmir; the young Kashmiri’s job was to somehow frighten him. Even the floors of the Maharaja’s tented camp, Agha Hasan claimed, were covered with fine Kashmiri shawls, and, “as for his army, if Sardar Hari Singh, his commander-in-chief, were to cross the Indus, his highness would soon be glad to make good his retreat”.
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20 Dec 2020 in 8:00
Much has been written about how Iravan was turned into Yerevan, and the Iravan Khanate - into a mono-ethnic Armenia. One of the elements of the history redrawing is the Sardar Palace of Iravan, founded in the 1580s by the Turkish governor and thoroughly rebuilt at the end of the 18th century. Now it could be a pearl of the South Caucasus architecture - a unique Sheki shebeke, Persian mirrored walls and carved columns from Central Asia.
All the walls of the palace were faced with tiles with patterns and flowers, and the ceiling was covered with mirrors. The palace also displayed portraits by the Azerbaijani artist Mirza Kadim Iravani. In 1827, in one of the rooms of the palace, the first production of Woe from Wit took place, and the only one in history at which Griboyedov was personally present. The floor is covered with expensive, patterned carpets, the ceiling and the entire hall are painted with Japanese patterns, the shutters of the windows occupy the en