Aḥmad Shah Durrānī

Aḥmad Shah Durrānī
born с 1722, Multan, Punjab
died Oct. 16?, 1772, Toba Maʽrūf, Afg.

Founder of modern Afghanistan.

The son of an Afghan chief, he became shah in 1747 on the death of the Persian conqueror Nādir Shah, in whose army he had served. He proceeded to invade India nine times over the next 22 years in an attempt to control the trade routes between northern India and central and western Asia and became ruler of an empire that extended from the Amu Darya to the Indian Ocean and from Khorāsān to present-day northern India. His hold on the Punjab, governed by his son Tīmūr Shah, was weakened by rebellions at home, and he ultimately lost control of it to the Sikhs. Much of his empire disintegrated after his death.

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▪ ruler of Afghanistan

born 1722?, Multān, Punjab
died Oct. 16, –23?, 1772, Toba Maʿrūf, Afg.

      founder of the state of Afghanistan and ruler of an empire that extended from the Amu Darya to the Indian Ocean and from Khorāsān into Kashmir, the Punjab, and Sind. Head of the central government, with full control of all departments of state in domestic and foreign affairs, both civil and military, the shāh was assisted by a prime minister and a council of nine life-term advisers that he selected from the chiefs of the leading Afghan tribes.

      A member of the noble Sadōzai clan and the second son of Moḥammad Zamān Khān, a hereditary chief of the Abdālī tribe of Afghans, Aḥmad rose to command an Abdālī cavalry group under Nāder Shāh of Persia, and, on Nāder Shāh's assassination, the Afghan chiefs elected Aḥmad as shāh. He was crowned in 1747 near Qandahār, where coins were struck in his name and where he set up his capital. Embarking on the conquest of regions held by ineffectual rulers, he invaded India nine times between 1747 and 1769, supposedly with no intention of founding an empire there. After an unopposed march to Delhi in 1757, he plundered that city, Āgra, Mathura, and Vṛndāvana.

      Before an outbreak of cholera among his troops forced his return to Afghanistan, Aḥmad married Ḥazrat Baygam, daughter of the Indian Mughal emperor Muḥammad Shāh. His son Tīmūr remained behind as viceroy of the Punjab and married the daughter of India's puppet emperor ʿĀlamgīr II. Tīmūr was driven out in 1758 by a force of Sikhs, Mughals, and Marāthās, but in 1759–61 Aḥmad Shāh swept the Marāthās from the Punjab and destroyed their large army at Pānīpat, north of Delhi. In the 1760s he attempted four times to crush the Sikhs, but his empire was restive with serious revolts nearer home, and he lost control of the Punjab to them. He is buried in a mausoleum in Aḥmad Shāhī, the new capital he built.

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