Ch.XXII, p.526, f.1
"It is true," writes Lord Curzon, "that his [Nasiri'd-Din Shah's] reign
has been disfigured by one or two acts of regrettable violence; worst among
which was the murder of his first Prime Minister, Mirza Taqi Khan, the
Amir-Nizam.... The brother-in-law of the Shah, and the first subject
in the kingdom, he owed the vindictiveness of court intrigue and to the
maliciously excited jealously of his youthful sovereign, a disgrace which
his enemies were not satisfied until they had fulfilled by the death of
their fallen, but still formidable victim." ("Persia and the Persian
Question," vol. 1, p. 402.)