![]() Along with British interests in the Persian Gulf and increased British (and Indian) commercial relations with Persia in the 19th century, the rapid expansion of British imperial hegemony in India during the opening decades of the century (in the shape of both direct and indirect rule) was a primary factor in the evolution of the “Persian Question” in British foreign and imperial policy making (see also GREAT BRITAIN i.-iii.). POLITICAL AND CULTURAL RELATIONS: QAJAR PERIOD, THE 19TH CENTURYīy the time of Āqā Moḥammad Khan’s (q.v.) founding of the Qajar dynasty in 1796, Persia’s diplomatic relations with the Mughal empire and other territories in the Indian subcontinent were gradually passing under the supervision of British authorities in India, even though occasional missions continued to be exchanged between the Qajar court and a number of independent or semi-independent states in the region. ![]()
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