The role of Sistan and Kandahar Roads in Iran-India relations in the Safavid period (According to the map of Guillaume Delisle French)

Abstract

Iran-India relations in the Safavid period were of special importance due to internal, regional and global developments. These connections were made both by sea and by land. Since Sistan province was in the neighborhood of India during the Safavid period and Kandahar province was also a border province, one of the communication routes between Iran and India in the Safavid period was the Sistan and Kandahar road. The communication importance of the roads of this route was so great that it was not neglected by European cartographers at that time. One of the interesting maps about drawing the roads of Iran in the Safavid period is the map of Guillaume Delisle, France. Considering the importance of Iran-India relations in the Safavid period and the mapping of Iran-India communication routes in Guillaume Delisle's map, the question arises as to what role the Sistan and Kandahar routes mapped in Guillaume Delisle's map, what role in Iran-India relations they had? The findings of this study indicate that the use of ligaments and caravanserais provided security measures and facilities for the Sistan and Kandahar roads, and a major part of the political, military, economic and cultural relations between Iran and India through communication. These ways were done. The purpose of this article is to introduce the drawn roads of Sistan and Kandahar in the map of Guillaume Delisleand to explain the communication role of these roads in the relations between Iran and India in the Safavid period has been done in a historical way by describing and analyzing the collected data.

Keywords

• iran
• india
• safavid
• sistan
• kandahar
• roads