Atma Ram (politician)
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Atma Ram (politician)
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Atma Ram was a Hindu minister in Afghanistan during the 1820s and 1830s. A native of Peshawar, he held the office of Diwanbegi in Kunduz under Murad Beg. He was said to have dominated trade between India and Turan in this period. A tax farmer, he purchased the right to collect taxes on the Kabul–Bukhara caravans. Unusually for a Hindu in an Islamic state, he was even permitted to own Muslim slaves. There is a coloured lithograph of Atma Ram based on the work of James Rattray at the time of the F
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Afghan politician, minister, and author
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atma_Ram_(politician)
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2024-04-08T06:21:43Z
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