Authors
1 Assistant professor, History Department, Razi University of Kermanshah
2 MA in History of Islamic Iran
Abstract
The year 1284 was a turning point in the political developments in Kurdistan in the Ardalans’ era. In that year, the powerful Qajar king- Nassereddin shah- who sought to impose centralized policies, refused to delegate power to the Ardalan governors after the death of their family members. He appointed one of the princes of Qajar named Farhad Mirza Motamedoddowleh in this region and ended the political domination of a few hundred years of local influential Ardalan dynasty. This research is trying to consider the reasons, qualities and factors of the extinction of this local dynasty and consequences resulted from this, based on historical method and considering the formation of relationships between this dynasty and the central government. And also, it is trying to answer the above questions and ambiguities to prove that Qajarization policy toward the country, political centralization and extreme desire to increasingly authoritarian for integrating and collecting the Ardalans kingdom in central government, internal family disputes among the Ardalans, political weaknesses of last governors of the Ardalans, and general discontent were some factors which have played significant roles in dissolution of the Ardalans government, especially when those factors were coinciding with the growing power of Nasereddin shah and his policies for changing the style of local government and ruling system
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