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2 By a strange coincidence this period almost corres• ponded with the foundation of the Mughal Empire in India and the revival of Persian nationalism in the form of Shi'a doctrines under the aggressive leadership of the Safavis, which was a sort of thin wedge driven into the Muslim body-politic and did so much " to undermine the unity and weaken the power of Islam.
The following remarks of B~wne about the Safavi power are interesting:-" It marks not only the recreation of the Persian nationality after an eclipse of more than eigl:it centuries and a half, but the entrance of Persia into the comity of nations and the genesis of political relations which still to a considerable exte*1t hold good," .
Officially these messages were conveyed a few years later by Prince Sayyid Beg Safavi, He probably carried back news of the disturbed state of India, for on his return the Shah started preparations to attack Qandahar.
s Shortly after Bahfidur Khan attacked Qandahar and Shah Muhammad Kilati had no other alternative than to ask the Shah for the co-operation of the troops sent in the beginning to help Bahadur Khan, as the help from India (1) On ff 162 (ibid) a copy of a small letter penned by Tahmasp himself is given.
No direct reference to this embassy is made by any Indian historian, but one is found in the Shah's letter to Akbar which is reproduced (1) See Akbarnamah, II, p.