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* Sher Ali Afridi, a former policeman from Peshawar who assassinated Lord Mayo, the Viceroy of British India, in 1872.
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Sher and Ali
Before his death in Herat, on June 9, 1863, Dost Mohammad Khan had nominated as his successor Sher Ali Khan, his third son, passing over the two elder brothers, Afzal Khan and Azam Khan.
Although his father, Afzal Khan, who had none of these qualities, came to terms with the Amir Sher Ali, the son's behavior in the northern province soon excited the Amir's suspicion, and Abdur Rahman, when he was summoned to Kabul, fled across the Oxus into Bukhara.
Sher Ali threw Afzal Khan into prison, and a serious revolt followed in southern Afghanistan.
The Amir Sher Ali marched up against them from Kandahar ; but in the battle that ensued at Sheikhabad on May 10, he was deserted by a large body of his troops, and after his signal defeat Abdur Rahman released his father, Afzul Khan, from prison in Ghazni, and installed him upon the throne as Amir of Afghanistan.
Abdur Rahman lived in exile in Tashkent, then part of Russian Turkestan, for eleven years, until the 1879 death of Sher Ali, who had retired from Kabul when the British armies entered Afghanistan.
However, Ayub Khan, one of Sher Ali Khan's sons, marched upon that city from Herat, defeated Abdur Rahman's troops, and occupied the place in July 1880.
King Sher Ali Khan with CD Charles Chamberlain and Sir Richard F. Pollock in 1869.
Sher Ali Khan, his third son, and proclaimed successor, failed to recapture Kabul from his older brother, Mohammad Afzal ( whose troops were led by his son, Abdur Rahman ) until 1868, after which Abdur Rahman retreated across the Amu Darya and bided his time.
By the time Sher Ali had established control in Kabul in 1868, he found the British ready to support his regime with arms and funds, but nothing more.
Sher Ali sent an envoy seeking British advice and support.
The British, however, refused to give any assurances to the disappointed Sher Ali.
Sher Ali tried, but failed, to keep them out.
Russian envoys arrived in Kabul on 22 July 1878 and on 14 August, the British demanded that Sher Ali accept a British mission too.
An alarmed Sher Ali attempted to appeal in person to the tsar for assistance, but unable to do so, he returned to Mazari Sharif, where he died on 21 February 1879.
The British-led Indian forces invaded in 1878 as Kabul was under Sher Ali Khan's rule, but the British residents were again massacred.
Shah Mir was succeeded by his eldest son Jamshid, but he was deposed by his brother Ali Sher probably within few months, who ascended the throne under the name of Alauddin Following the Shahmiri Dynasty, was the Chak Dynasty that ruled until Mughal conquest in 1586.
In the late 1870s, Afghan Emir Sher Ali Khan escaped from Kabul to take refuge in Mazar-e Sharif, which was un-affected by the Anglo-Afghan wars of the 19th century between Afghanistan and then British India.
* date unknown – Sher Ali Khan, ruler of Afghanistan ( d. 1879 )
* Shahabuddin succeeds his brother, Alauddin Ali Sher, as Sultan of Kashmir.
Sher Ali Khan The son Dost Muhammad Khan was then a beardless youth and Nasrullah Khan coveted him.
The Afghan pride of Sher Ali was however inflamed and he informed his father and brothers of the insulting desire of Nasrullah Khan.
eventually Mir Jahandar Shah was forced to take the side of Sher Ali Khan and Muhammad Azam Khan ( who was now married to Mir Jahandar Shah's daughter as well ).
But Mohammad Afzal Khan would secure Kabul forcing Sher Ali Khan to retreat to Herat.
Mir Jahandar Shah would hand over his allies to Mohammad Afzal Khan this angered Sher Ali Khan and his deputy in Akhcha, Faiz Muhammad Khan who went into battle at Gulaugan against Mir Jahandar Shah and defeated him.
Mir Jahandar Shah of Badakhshan never asked forgiveness for hostilities to Amir Sher Ali Khan with Azam Khan and failed to wait on Governor of Balkh at Takhtapul.
Sher and Afridi
While visiting the convict settlement at Port Blair in the Andaman Islands, for the purpose of inspection, he was assassinated by Sher Ali Afridi, an Afridi Pathan convict who used a knife.
Sher and former
* Byron Sher – professor emeritus, environmental law ; former California State Senator and Assemblyman
Office Depot was founded in March 1986 by the late F. Patrick Sher, the former chairman and chief executive officer, Dougherty, president, and Jack Kopkin, executive vice president.
Sher Bahadur Deuba ( born June 13, 1946 ) is a Nepalese politician and former Prime Minister.
The Second Anglo-Afghan War was fought between the United Kingdom and Afghanistan from 1878 to 1880, when the nation was ruled by Sher Ali Khan of the Barakzai dynasty, the son of former Emir Dost Mohammad Khan.
* Neal Sher, former head of the United States Justice Department's Nazi prosecution unit
Nepali Congress divided to two parties, the Nepali Congress ( Democratic ) led by former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and the other led by Girija Prasad Koirala.
Sher and from
After Sher Shah's death, his son Islam Shah Suri and the Hindu king Samrat Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, who had won 22 battles against Afghan rebels and forces of Akbar, from Punjab to Bengal and had established a secular Hindu rule in North India from Delhi till 1556.
Shortly after Humayun had marched on Gujarat, Sher Shah saw an opportunity to wrest control of Agra from the Mughals.
Whilst Humayun succeeded in protecting Agra from Sher Shah, the second city of the Empire, Gaur the capital of the vilayat of Bengal, was sacked.
Humayun's troops had been delayed while trying to take Chunar, a fort occupied by Sher Shah's son, in order to protect his troops from an attack from the rear.
When Hindal withdrew from protecting the rear of Humayun's troops, Sher Shah's troop quickly reclaimed these positions, leaving Humayun surrounded.
The derivative word Rūpaya was used to denote the coin introduced by Sher Shah Suri during his reign from 1540 to 1545.
Sher Shah and his son Islam Shah ruled Uttar Pradesh from their capital at Gwalior.
Hemu belonged to Rewari in present day Haryana, who earlier was an adviser to Sher Shah Suri's son Islam Shah from 1545 to 1553.
Sher Khan's Army, under the command of Khulas Khan Marwat, then established a monarchy in Delhi with Sher Khan ruling under the title Sher Shah Suri ; he ruled from 1540 to 1545.
Sher Shah Suri consolidated his realm from Punjab to Bengal ( he was the first conqueror to enter Bengal since Ala-ud-din Khilji ; more than two centuries earlier ).
Sher Shah Suri died from a gunpowder explosion during the siege of Kalinjar fort on May 22, 1545 fighting against the Chandel Rajputs.
Lytton's demands had followed the reluctant hosting of a Russian mission to Kabul by Sher Ali and the prevention of a similar British mission from entering Afghanistan at Ali Masjid.
The following is a verse from an Urdu ghazal by Sher Khwaja Mir Dard:
Through a decisive battle fought at Jaindi River, both the Shalmanies and Dehgans were pushed out from the plains of Behlol, Sher Khanai, Katlang, Main Khan and Sangao and pursed to Bazdara and the foot of Morah hills.
Sher Ali Khan ( 1825 – February 21, 1879 ) was Amir of Afghanistan from 1863 to 1866 and from 1868 until his death in 1879.
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