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On 30 January, Ahmad Shah minted coins in his name. He further married Hazrat Begum, a daughter of Alamgir, [129] whilst also marrying his son, Timur Shah Durrani, to another daughter of Alamgir. [130] Ahmad Shah then ordered all Hindus to wear distinctive marks on their head, [131] as well as forbidding non-Muslims from wearing the turban ...
Ahmad Shah Durrani, who is considered the founder of the modern state of Afghanistan, belonged to the Abdali tribe. In 1747 after establishing the Durrani Empire based in Kandahar, he adopted the epithet Shāh Durr-i-Durrān, "King, Pearl of Pearls," and changed the name of his Tareen Abdali tribe to "Durrani" after himself. [1] [2]
In April 1757, after sacking the imperial capital of Delhi, the Durrani king Ahmed Shah Abdali desired to marry the deceased Emperor Muhammad Shah's 16-year-old daughter. [10] As she was only 16 years old, Badshah Begum again resisted handing over her tender charge to an Afghan king 35 years old, but Shah forcibly wedded her on 5 April 1757 in ...
Vowing revenge, Mughlani now started making overtures to Ahmed Shah Abdali, promising him a treasure trove in the ancestral palace of her father-n-law, the late Wazir Qamruddin Khan. There were others who conspired against Imad-ul-mulk and invited Abdali to invade Delhi. Abdali picked up the bait and decided to invade Delhi. When the news of ...
Padshah Ahmad Shah Durrani Lived: 1720/1722–1772 Reign: 1747–1772: Padshah Timur Shah Durrani Lived: 1748–1793 Reign: 1772–1793: Padshah Mahmud Shah Durrani Lived: 1769–1829 Reign: 1801–1803, 1809–1818: Shahzada Kamran Durrani 1789–1840: Shahzada Nadir Bismillah Durrani 1810–1873: Shahzada Rasheed Khan Durrani 1832–1880 ...
The Durrani Empire, [b] colloquially known as the Afghan Empire, [c] [9] or the Sadozai Kingdom, [d] [10] was an Afghan empire founded by the Durrani tribe of Pashtuns under Ahmad Shah Durrani in 1747, which spanned parts of Central Asia, the Iranian plateau, and the Indian subcontinent.
Ahmed Shah Abdali called him Suba Khan after the Kashmir Subah (Kashmir Province), of which Tanoli was the subahdar (governor). The subah was annexed by Gulab Singh in 1818 during fall of Tanol in Stratagem of Peshawar (1818).
They defeated the Afghan forces of Ahmed Shah Abdali. The Afghans numbered around 25,000–30,000 and were led by Timur Shah, the son of Ahmad Shah Durrani. [119] During the confederacy era, Mahadaji Shinde resurrected the Maratha domination over much of Northern India which was lost after the Third Battle of Panipat.