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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B9_%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%87" title="شجاع درانی شاه – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="شجاع درانی شاه" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9_%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF" title="শুজা শাহ দুররানি – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="শুজা শাহ দুররানি" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schah_Schudscha_(Afghanistan)" title="Schah Schudscha (Afghanistan) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Schah Schudscha (Afghanistan)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CE%B1%CF%87_%CE%A3%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%84%CE%B6%CE%AC_%CE%9D%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%AF" title="Σαχ Σουτζά Ντουρανί – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Σαχ Σουτζά Ντουρανί" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuja_Shah_Durrani" title="Shuja Shah Durrani – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Shuja Shah Durrani" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%87_%D8%B4%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B9_%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C" title="شاه شجاع درانی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="شاه شجاع درانی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah_Shuja_Durrani" title="Shah Shuja Durrani – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Shah Shuja Durrani" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%83%A4_%EC%8A%88%EC%9E%90_%EB%91%90%EB%9D%BC%EB%8B%88" title="샤 슈자 두라니 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="샤 슈자 두라니" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B9_%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BE" title="शाह शुजा – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="शाह शुजा" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah_Shuja_Durrani" title="Shah Shuja Durrani – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Shah Shuja Durrani" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%90%D7%94_%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%92%27%D7%90%D7%A2_%D7%93%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%99" title="שאה שוג'אע דוראני – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="שאה שוג'אע דוראני" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B0_%D1%88%D0%B0%D1%85_%D0%94%D1%83%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8" title="Шужа шах Дуррани – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Шужа шах Дуррани" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0ud%C5%BEa_Durr%C4%81n%C4%AB" title="Šudža Durrānī – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Šudža Durrānī" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0ud%C5%BEa_%C5%A0achas_Duranis" title="Šudža Šachas Duranis – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Šudža Šachas Duranis" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B7%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%9C_%E0%B4%B7%E0%B4%BE_%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%BF" title="ഷൂജ ഷാ ദുറാനി – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ഷൂജ ഷാ ദുറാനി" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B9_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%89" title="شجاع شاه الدرانى – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="شجاع شاه الدرانى" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sjah_Shuja_Durrani" title="Sjah Shuja Durrani – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Sjah Shuja Durrani" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC" title="シュジャー・シャー – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="シュジャー・シャー" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoja_Shah" title="Shoja Shah – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Shoja Shah" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shujo_ul-Mulk" title="Shujo ul-Mulk – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Shujo ul-Mulk" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%BC%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B9_%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%BC%E0%A9%81%E0%A8%9C%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B9_%E0%A8%A6%E0%A9%81%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%A8%E0%A9%80" title="ਸ਼ਾਹ ਸ਼ੁਜਾਹ ਦੁਰਾਨੀ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਸ਼ਾਹ ਸ਼ੁਜਾਹ ਦੁਰਾਨੀ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" 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data-title="Szudża Szah Durrani" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah_Shuja" title="Shah Shuja – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Shah Shuja" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B0-%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%85_%D0%94%D1%83%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8" title="Шуджа-Шах Дуррани – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Шуджа-Шах Дуррани" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0ud%C5%BEa_%C5%A0ah_Dorrani" title="Šudža Šah Dorrani – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Šudža Šah Dorrani" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah_Shujah_Durrani" title="Shah Shujah Durrani – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Shah Shujah Durrani" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%B9%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B2_%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%AB%E0%B9%8C_%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%B9%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B5" title="ชูจา ชาห์ ดูรานี – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="ชูจา ชาห์ ดูรานี" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" 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color:inherit; font-size: 125%">Shah Shujah Durrani<br /><span title="Pashto-language text"><span lang="ps"><span class="Nastaliq" dir="rtl" title="Nastaliq" style="font-family: 'Jameel Noori Nastaleeq', 'Urdu Typesetting', 'Noto Nastaliq Urdu', 'Noto Nastaliq Urdu Draft', 'Hussaini Nastaleeq', 'AlQalam Taj Nastaleeq', IranNastaliq, 'Awami Nastaliq', 'Awami Nastaliq Beta3', 'Awami Nastaliq Beta2', 'Awami Nastaliq Beta1', 'Nafees Nastaleeq', 'Nafees Nastaleeq v1.01', 'Pak Nastaleeq', 'PDMS_Jauhar', 'Alvi Lahori Nastaleeq'; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal;">شاه شجاع درانی</span></span></span></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_leaders_of_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="List of leaders of Afghanistan">His Majesty Inayat-i-Ilahi Padshah Sultan Shah Shujah ul-Mulk Muhammad Bahadur,Abdali ,Dur-i-Durran, Padshah of Afghanistan</a></i></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image photo"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Lithograph_of_Shah_Shujah_in_1843.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Lithograph_of_Shah_Shujah_in_1843.jpg/220px-Lithograph_of_Shah_Shujah_in_1843.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="342" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Lithograph_of_Shah_Shujah_in_1843.jpg/330px-Lithograph_of_Shah_Shujah_in_1843.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Lithograph_of_Shah_Shujah_in_1843.jpg/440px-Lithograph_of_Shah_Shujah_in_1843.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1267" data-file-height="1972" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-bottom:0.2em;padding-top:0.2em;">Lithograph by <a href="/wiki/Lowes_Cato_Dickinson" title="Lowes Cato Dickinson">Lowes Cato Dickinson</a>, after <a href="/wiki/Vincent_Eyre" title="Vincent Eyre">Vincent Eyre</a>, showing Shah Shujah ul-Mulk</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e4dcf6;color:inherit;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Durrani_Empire" title="Durrani Empire">Emir of the Durrani Empire</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reign</th><td class="infobox-data">13 July 1803 – 3 May 1809 (First reign)<br /> 7 August 1839 – 5 April 1842 (Second reign)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Coronation" title="Coronation">Coronation</a></th><td class="infobox-data">13 July 1803</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mahmud_Shah_Durrani" title="Mahmud Shah Durrani">Mahmud Shah Durrani</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mahmud_Shah_Durrani" title="Mahmud Shah Durrani">Mahmud Shah Durrani</a> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Dost_Mohammad_Khan" title="Dost Mohammad Khan">Dost Mohammad Khan</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e4dcf6;color:inherit;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><div style="height: 4px; width:100%;"></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1785-11-04</span>)</span>4 November 1785</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">5 April 1842<span style="display:none">(1842-04-05)</span> (aged 56)<br /><a href="/wiki/Kabul" title="Kabul">Kabul</a>, <a href="/wiki/Durrani_Empire" title="Durrani Empire">Durrani Empire</a>, now <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Wives</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Daughter of Fateh Khan Tokhi</li><li>Wafa Begum</li><li>Daughter of Amir Haidar Khan</li><li>Daughter of Khan Bahadur Khan Malikdin Khel</li><li>Daughter of Sardar Haji Rahmatullah Khan Sardozai</li><li>Sarwar Begum</li><li>Bibi Mastan</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Issue_(genealogy)" title="Issue (genealogy)">Issue</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Abdul Samad Khan <br /> Timur Mirza</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-spacing:0px; border:none; width:100%; margin:0px; font-size:100%; clear:none; float:none"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="text-align:left">Names</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data nickname" style="text-align:left; padding-left:0.7em;">His Majesty Inayat-i-Ilahi Padshah Sultan Shah Shujah ul-Mulk Muhammad Bahadur, Abdali, Dur-i-Durran, Padshah of Afghanistan</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Dynasty" title="Dynasty">Dynasty</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Durrani_Empire" title="Durrani Empire">Durrani dynasty</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Father</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Timur_Shah_Durrani" title="Timur Shah Durrani">Timur Shah Durrani</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Mother</th><td class="infobox-data">a <a href="/wiki/Sudhan" title="Sudhan">Sadozai</a> lady</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Seal</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="notpageimage infobox-signature skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Seal_of_Shah_Shuja_Ul_Mulk_of_the_Durrani_empire_and_dynasty.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Shah Shujah Durrani شاه شجاع درانی's signature"><img alt="Shah Shujah Durrani شاه شجاع درانی's signature" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Seal_of_Shah_Shuja_Ul_Mulk_of_the_Durrani_empire_and_dynasty.jpg/125px-Seal_of_Shah_Shuja_Ul_Mulk_of_the_Durrani_empire_and_dynasty.jpg" decoding="async" width="125" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Seal_of_Shah_Shuja_Ul_Mulk_of_the_Durrani_empire_and_dynasty.jpg/188px-Seal_of_Shah_Shuja_Ul_Mulk_of_the_Durrani_empire_and_dynasty.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Seal_of_Shah_Shuja_Ul_Mulk_of_the_Durrani_empire_and_dynasty.jpg/250px-Seal_of_Shah_Shuja_Ul_Mulk_of_the_Durrani_empire_and_dynasty.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2100" data-file-height="2800" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Shah Shujah Durrani</b> (<a href="/wiki/Pashto" title="Pashto">Pashto</a>/<a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a>: <span title="Pashto-language text"><span lang="ps"><span class="Nastaliq" dir="rtl" title="Nastaliq" style="font-family: 'Jameel Noori Nastaleeq', 'Urdu Typesetting', 'Noto Nastaliq Urdu', 'Noto Nastaliq Urdu Draft', 'Hussaini Nastaleeq', 'AlQalam Taj Nastaleeq', IranNastaliq, 'Awami Nastaliq', 'Awami Nastaliq Beta3', 'Awami Nastaliq Beta2', 'Awami Nastaliq Beta1', 'Nafees Nastaleeq', 'Nafees Nastaleeq v1.01', 'Pak Nastaleeq', 'PDMS_Jauhar', 'Alvi Lahori Nastaleeq'; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal;">شاه شجاع درانی</span></span></span> ; November 1785 – 5 April 1842) was ruler of the <a href="/wiki/Durrani_Empire" title="Durrani Empire">Durrani Empire</a> from 1803 to 1809. He then ruled from 1839 until his death in 1842. Son of <a href="/wiki/Timur_Shah_Durrani" title="Timur Shah Durrani">Timur Shah Durrani</a>, Shujah was of the <a href="/wiki/Sadduzai" class="mw-redirect" title="Sadduzai">Sadduzai</a> line of the <a href="/wiki/Durrani" title="Durrani">Abdali</a> group of <a href="/wiki/Ethnic_Pashtuns" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethnic Pashtuns">ethnic Pashtuns</a>. He became the fifth <a href="/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_of_Afghanistan" title="List of heads of state of Afghanistan">King of the Durrani Empire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life">Life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shah_Shujah_Durrani&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="First_reign">First reign</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shah_Shujah_Durrani&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: First reign"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Shujah was the governor of <a href="/wiki/Herat" title="Herat">Herat</a> and Peshawar from 1798 to 1801. He proclaimed himself <a href="/wiki/King_of_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="King of Afghanistan">King of Afghanistan</a> in October 1801 (after the deposition of his brother <a href="/wiki/Zaman_Shah_Durrani" title="Zaman Shah Durrani">Zaman Shah</a>), but only properly ascended to the throne on July 13, 1803. In Afghanistan, a blind man by tradition cannot be Emir, and so Shujah's step-brother Mahmud Shah had Zaman blinded, however not killed.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHusain201816_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHusain201816-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After coming to power in 1803, Shujah ended the <a href="/wiki/Blood_feud" class="mw-redirect" title="Blood feud">blood feud</a> with the powerful <a href="/wiki/Barakzai" title="Barakzai">Barakzai</a> family and also forgave them. To create an alliance with them, he married their "sister" Wafa Begum.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDalrymple201223_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDalrymple201223-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Order_of_the_Durrani_Empire_Afghanistan_received_by_Sir_Thomas_Willshire_1789_1862.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Order_of_the_Durrani_Empire_Afghanistan_received_by_Sir_Thomas_Willshire_1789_1862.jpg/200px-Order_of_the_Durrani_Empire_Afghanistan_received_by_Sir_Thomas_Willshire_1789_1862.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Order_of_the_Durrani_Empire_Afghanistan_received_by_Sir_Thomas_Willshire_1789_1862.jpg/300px-Order_of_the_Durrani_Empire_Afghanistan_received_by_Sir_Thomas_Willshire_1789_1862.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Order_of_the_Durrani_Empire_Afghanistan_received_by_Sir_Thomas_Willshire_1789_1862.jpg/400px-Order_of_the_Durrani_Empire_Afghanistan_received_by_Sir_Thomas_Willshire_1789_1862.jpg 2x" data-file-width="531" data-file-height="532" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Durrani_Empire" title="Order of the Durrani Empire">Order of the Durrani Empire</a>, founded by Shujah in 1839. It was awarded to a number of officers of the <a href="/wiki/Bengal_Army" title="Bengal Army">Bengal Army</a>. <a href="/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_national_de_la_L%C3%A9gion_d%27Honneur_et_des_Ordres_de_Chevalerie" class="mw-redirect" title="Musée national de la Légion d'Honneur et des Ordres de Chevalerie">Musée national de la Légion d'Honneur et des Ordres de Chevalerie</a>.</figcaption></figure><p>In 1809, Shujah allied Afghanistan with <a href="/wiki/British_India" class="mw-redirect" title="British India">British India</a>, as a means of defending against an invasion of Afghanistan and the <a href="/wiki/Punjab_Region" class="mw-redirect" title="Punjab Region">Punjab Region</a> by France.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHusain20187_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHusain20187-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1809, a British diplomatic mission was sent to Afghanistan, which at the time was to the British a remote and mysterious part of Asia. According to <a href="/wiki/Mountstuart_Elphinstone" title="Mountstuart Elphinstone">Mountstuart Elphinstone</a>, "The King of Kabul [Shah Shujah] was a handsome man". He also wrote "of an olive complexion with a thick black beard ... his voice clear, his address princely." Shujah wore the <a href="/wiki/Koh-i-Noor" title="Koh-i-Noor">Koh-i-Noor</a> ("Mountain of Light") diamond in one of his bracelets when Elphinstone visited him, but rather undiplomatically described Shujah as having a "vulgar nose".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHusain20186_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHusain20186-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/William_Fraser_(British_India_civil_servant)" title="William Fraser (British India civil servant)">William Fraser</a>, who accompanied Elphinstone to meet Shah Shujah was "struck with the dignity of his appearance and the romantic Oriental awe."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDalrymple201220_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDalrymple201220-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fraser also judged him to be "about five feet six inches (168 cm) tall" and his skin colour was "very fair, but dead...his beard was thick jet black and shortened a little by the obliquely upwards, but turned again at the corners ... The eyelashes and the edges of his eyelids were blackened with <a href="/wiki/Kohl_(cosmetics)" title="Kohl (cosmetics)">antimony</a>." He also described Shujah's voice as "loud and sonorous".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDalrymple201221_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDalrymple201221-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist 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style="padding-bottom: 0.4em; border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Shuja_Shah_Durrani_of_Afghanistan_in_1839.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Shuja_Shah_Durrani_of_Afghanistan_in_1839.jpg/200px-Shuja_Shah_Durrani_of_Afghanistan_in_1839.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Shuja_Shah_Durrani_of_Afghanistan_in_1839.jpg/300px-Shuja_Shah_Durrani_of_Afghanistan_in_1839.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Shuja_Shah_Durrani_of_Afghanistan_in_1839.jpg/400px-Shuja_Shah_Durrani_of_Afghanistan_in_1839.jpg 2x" data-file-width="968" data-file-height="712" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-above"> <a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_Afghan_history" title="Timeline of Afghan history">Timeline</a></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Ancient_history_of_Afghanistan" title="Ancient history of Afghanistan">Ancient</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px 0px;border:none"><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Indus_Valley_civilisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Indus Valley civilisation">Indus Valley civilisation</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 2200–1800 BC</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Bactria%E2%80%93Margiana_Archaeological_Complex" title="Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex">Oxus civilization</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 2100–1800 BC</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Gandhara_kingdom" title="Gandhara kingdom">Gandhara kingdom</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 1500–535 BC</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Medes" title="Medes">Median Empire</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 728–550 BC</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire" title="Achaemenid Empire">Achaemenid Empire</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 550–330 BC</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Macedonia_(ancient_kingdom)" title="Macedonia (ancient kingdom)">Macedonian Empire</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 330–312 BC</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Seleucid_Empire" title="Seleucid Empire">Seleucid Empire</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 312–150 BC</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Maurya_Empire" title="Maurya Empire">Maurya Empire</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 305–180 BC</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Greco-Bactrian_kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Greco-Bactrian kingdom">Greco-Bactrian kingdom</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 256–125 BC</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Parthian_Empire" title="Parthian Empire">Parthian Empire</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 247 BC–224 AD</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Indo-Greek_kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Indo-Greek kingdom">Indo-Greek kingdom</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 180–90 BC</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Indo-Scythians" title="Indo-Scythians">Indo-Scythian kingdom</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 155–80? BC</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Kushan_Empire" title="Kushan Empire">Kushan Empire</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 135 BC – 248 AD</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Indo-Parthian_kingdom" title="Indo-Parthian kingdom">Indo-Parthian kingdom</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 20 BC – 50? AD</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Sasanian_Empire" title="Sasanian Empire">Sasanian Empire</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 230–651</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Kidarites" title="Kidarites">Kidarite kingdom</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 320–465</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Rob" title="Kingdom of Rob">Rob</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"></td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Alchon_Huns" title="Alchon Huns">Alchon Huns</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 380–560</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Hephthalite_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Hephthalite Empire">Hephthalite Empire</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 410–557</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Nezak_Huns" title="Nezak Huns">Nezak Huns</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 484–711</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Medieval</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px 0px;border:none"><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Turk_Shahis" title="Turk Shahis">Kabul Shahi</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 565–879</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Chaghaniyan" title="Principality of Chaghaniyan">Principality of Chaghaniyan</a></td><td 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title="Zunbils">Zunbils</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 680–870</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Lawik_dynasty" title="Lawik dynasty">Lawik</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;">750-977</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Abbasid_Caliphate" title="Abbasid Caliphate">Abbasids</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 750–821</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Tahirid_dynasty" title="Tahirid dynasty">Tahirids</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 821–873</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Saffarid_dynasty" title="Saffarid dynasty">Saffarids</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 863–900</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Samanid_Empire" title="Samanid Empire">Samanids</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 875–999</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Ghaznavids" title="Ghaznavids">Ghaznavids</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 963–1187</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Ghurid_dynasty" title="Ghurid dynasty">Ghurids</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> before 879–1215</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Seljuk_Empire" title="Seljuk Empire">Seljuks</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 1037–1194</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Khwarazmian_Empire" title="Khwarazmian Empire">Khwarezmids</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 1215–1231</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Mongol_invasion_of_the_Khwarazmian_Empire" title="Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire">Mongol Invasion</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 1219–1226</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Chagatai_Khanate" title="Chagatai Khanate">Chagatai Khanate</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 1226–1245</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Qarlughids" title="Qarlughids">Qarlughids</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 1224–1266</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Ilkhanate" title="Ilkhanate">Ilkhanate</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 1256–1335</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align:left;"> <a href="/wiki/Kart_dynasty" title="Kart dynasty">Kartids</a></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;"> 1245–1381</td></tr><tr 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href="/wiki/Attock" title="Attock">Attock</a> (1811–1812) and then taken to <a href="/wiki/Kashmir" title="Kashmir">Kashmir</a> (1812–1813) by Atta Muhammad Khan. When <a href="/wiki/Mahmud_Shah_Durrani" title="Mahmud Shah Durrani">Mahmud Shah</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Vizier" title="Vizier">vizier</a> Fateh Khan invaded Kashmir alongside <a href="/wiki/Ranjit_Singh" title="Ranjit Singh">Ranjit Singh</a>'s army, Shujah chose to leave with the <a href="/wiki/Sikh" class="mw-redirect" title="Sikh">Sikh</a> army. He stayed in <a href="/wiki/Lahore" title="Lahore">Lahore</a> from 1813 to 1814. During his time in India, Shujah was imprisoned and forced to give up the Timur Ruby, Koh-i-Noor, and the sister diamond Dray-i-Nur to Ranjit Singh .<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHusain201823_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHusain201823-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He escaped from Ranjit's detention at the Mubarek Haveli Lahore for Ludhiana and the East India Company.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHusain201825_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHusain201825-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1818 onward, Shujah who liked to live in a lavish style with his wives and concubines had collected a pension from the East India Company, which thought Shujah might prove useful one day.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPerry2005111_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPerry2005111-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shujah stayed first in Ludhiana where he was joined by Zeman Shah in 1821. The place where he stayed in Ludhiana was occupied by the Main Post Office near Mata Rani Chowk and inside it there used to be a white marble stone commemorating his stay there.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHusain2018386_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHusain2018386-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Exile">Exile</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shah_Shujah_Durrani&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Exile"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/1833%E2%80%931834_expedition_of_Shah_Shujah_Durrani" title="1833–1834 expedition of Shah Shujah Durrani">1833–1834 expedition of Shah Shujah Durrani</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cabul,_the_retinue_of_Shah_Shoojau,_Ool-Moolk,_including_his_Chief_Executioner_and_a_Mutilator_-_Wellcome_b11246235.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Cabul%2C_the_retinue_of_Shah_Shoojau%2C_Ool-Moolk%2C_including_his_Chief_Executioner_and_a_Mutilator_-_Wellcome_b11246235.jpg/220px-Cabul%2C_the_retinue_of_Shah_Shoojau%2C_Ool-Moolk%2C_including_his_Chief_Executioner_and_a_Mutilator_-_Wellcome_b11246235.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Cabul%2C_the_retinue_of_Shah_Shoojau%2C_Ool-Moolk%2C_including_his_Chief_Executioner_and_a_Mutilator_-_Wellcome_b11246235.jpg/330px-Cabul%2C_the_retinue_of_Shah_Shoojau%2C_Ool-Moolk%2C_including_his_Chief_Executioner_and_a_Mutilator_-_Wellcome_b11246235.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Cabul%2C_the_retinue_of_Shah_Shoojau%2C_Ool-Moolk%2C_including_his_Chief_Executioner_and_a_Mutilator_-_Wellcome_b11246235.jpg/440px-Cabul%2C_the_retinue_of_Shah_Shoojau%2C_Ool-Moolk%2C_including_his_Chief_Executioner_and_a_Mutilator_-_Wellcome_b11246235.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3376" data-file-height="2395" /></a><figcaption>A picture of the retinue of "Shah Shoojau, Ool-Moolk", including <i>Mahomed Shah Giljee</i>, chief executioner, and <i>Ghufoor</i>, a mutilator, from a sketch by <a href="/wiki/James_Atkinson_(Persian_scholar)" title="James Atkinson (Persian scholar)">James Atkinson</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>During his time in exile, Shujah indulged his cruelty by removing the noses, ears, tongues, penises, and testicles of his courtiers and slaves when they displeased him in the slightest.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200229_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200229-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When the American adventurer Dr. <a href="/wiki/Josiah_Harlan" title="Josiah Harlan">Josiah Harlan</a> visited Shujah's court in exile, he noted that all of Shujah's courtiers and slaves were missing some part of their bodies as all had in some way displeased their master at some point along the line — and yet they were all slavishly devoted to him — as Harlan noted that there was an "earless assemblage of mutes and eunuchs in the ex-king's service".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200229_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200229-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When Shujah went out for a picnic with his four wives and the wind blew down his tent, Shujah flew into a rage and, much to Harlan's horror, he had the man responsible for putting up his tent, Khwajah Mika—a slave from East Africa who had already had his ears chopped off—to be castrated on the spot.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200229_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200229-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shujah's grand vizier, Mullah Shakur, had grown his hair long to cover up that both his ears had been chopped off, and he spoke in the distinctive high-pitched voice of a eunuch; Harlan noted he was lucky as the rest of his body was still intact.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200229_13-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200229-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite or perhaps because he was mutilated, Shujah's grand vizier took a great deal of pleasure in mutilating others and was always inciting his master to have somebody mutilated.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200229_13-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200229-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Harlan commented on "the grace and dignity of His Highness's demeanor", observing the sense of power he projected, but also that "years of disappointment had created in the countenance of the ex-King an appearance of melancholy and resignation."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200230_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200230-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Harlan, a man without much military experience and knowledge of <a href="/wiki/Pashto" title="Pashto">Pashto</a>, offered to lead an invasion of Afghanistan to restore Shujah, an offer that led the former monarch to break "into a poetical effusion in praise of Kabul" and its gardens, its trees laden with fruits, and its music, culminating with "Kabul is called the Crown of the Air. I pray for the possession of those pleasures which my native country alone can afford".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200232_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200232-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When Harlan pressed him on whether he wanted to accept his offer or not, Shujah agreed.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200232_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200232-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Harlan had a tailor sew up an American flag, which Harlan hoisted up in Ludhiana, and started to recruit mercenaries for the invasion of Afghanistan, suggesting that he was working for the U.S. government (which he was not).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200233_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200233-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Harlan ultimately grew disillusioned with Shujah, writing that he did not view him as the "legitimate monarch, the victim of treasonable practices", but rather as "a wayward tyrant, inflexible in moods, vindictive in his enmities, faithless in his attachments, unnatural in his affections. He remembered his misfortunes only to avenge them".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacintyre2002170–171_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacintyre2002170–171-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1833, Shujah struck a deal with Ranjit Singh of Punjab where he was allowed to march his troops through Punjab, and in return, he would cede <a href="/wiki/Peshawar" title="Peshawar">Peshawar</a> to the Sikhs if they could manage to take it. In a concerted campaign, the following year, Shujah marched on Kandahar, while the Sikhs commanded by General <a href="/wiki/Hari_Singh_Nalwa" title="Hari Singh Nalwa">Hari Singh Nalwa</a>, attacked Peshawar. In July, Shujah was <a href="/wiki/1833%E2%80%931834_expedition_of_Shah_Shujah_Durrani" title="1833–1834 expedition of Shah Shujah Durrani">defeated</a> at <a href="/wiki/Kandahar" title="Kandahar">Kandahar</a> by an alliance between the <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Qandahar" class="mw-redirect" title="Principality of Qandahar">Qandahar Sardars</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dost_Mohammad_Khan" title="Dost Mohammad Khan">Dost Mohammad Khan</a>. Shujah fled. The Sikhs for their part reclaimed Peshawar.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHusain201835_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHusain201835-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Restoration_of_power">Restoration of power</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shah_Shujah_Durrani&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Restoration of power"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Shah_Shoojau_Ool_Moolk_-_Character_%26_Costumes_of_Afghaunistan_(1843)_alt.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Shah_Shoojau_Ool_Moolk_-_Character_%26_Costumes_of_Afghaunistan_%281843%29_alt.jpg/220px-Shah_Shoojau_Ool_Moolk_-_Character_%26_Costumes_of_Afghaunistan_%281843%29_alt.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Shah_Shoojau_Ool_Moolk_-_Character_%26_Costumes_of_Afghaunistan_%281843%29_alt.jpg/330px-Shah_Shoojau_Ool_Moolk_-_Character_%26_Costumes_of_Afghaunistan_%281843%29_alt.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Shah_Shoojau_Ool_Moolk_-_Character_%26_Costumes_of_Afghaunistan_%281843%29_alt.jpg/440px-Shah_Shoojau_Ool_Moolk_-_Character_%26_Costumes_of_Afghaunistan_%281843%29_alt.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4009" data-file-height="2678" /></a><figcaption>Portrait of "Shah Shoojau Ool Moolk" with his retinue, in 1842 from a sketch by Atkinson</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1838, Shujah had gained the support of the British and Ranjit Singh for wresting power from Dost Mohammad Khan. <a href="/wiki/George_Eden,_1st_Earl_of_Auckland" title="George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland">George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland</a>, believed that most Afghans would welcome the return of Shujah as their rightful ruler, but in fact, by 1838, most people in Afghanistan could not remember him, and those that did, remembered him as a cruel, tyrannical ruler and absolutely hated him.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPerry2005112_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPerry2005112-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the march on Kabul, the main British camp was attacked by a force of <a href="/wiki/Ghazi_(warrior)" title="Ghazi (warrior)">Ghazis</a>, of whom 50 were captured.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPerry2005117_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPerry2005117-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When the prisoners were brought before Shujah, one of them used a knife, hidden in his robes, to stab one of Shujah's ministers to death, causing Shujah to fly into one of his rages and order all 50 prisoners to be beheaded on the spot.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPerry2005117_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPerry2005117-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The British historian, Sir <a href="/wiki/John_William_Kaye" title="John William Kaye">John William Kaye</a> wrote the "wanton barbarity" of the mass execution as all 50 prisoners were beheaded strained the campaign, stating the "shrill cry" of the prisoners as they waited to be executed, was the "funeral wail" of the "unholy policy" of attempting to restore Shujah.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPerry2005117_20-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPerry2005117-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Shujah was restored to the throne by the British with the help of the Sikhs, on August 7, 1839,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMoon1989515_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMoon1989515-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 30 years after his deposition. He did not, however, remain long in power when the British and Sikhs left. Upon being restored, Shujah announced that he considered his own people "dogs" who needed to be taught how to be obedient to their master. He generally shut himself away in <a href="/wiki/Bala_Hissar,_Kabul" title="Bala Hissar, Kabul">Bala Hissar</a>,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> the citadel of Kabul, and spent his time exacting bloody vengeance on those Afghans whom he felt had betrayed him, making him extremely unpopular with his people.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPerry2005121_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPerry2005121-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Assassination">Assassination</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shah_Shujah_Durrani&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Assassination"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Obliged by religious pressure, he mustered an army near Kabul on April 4, 1842, notionally to launch an attack on the British. Having been passed over for a command in this expedition, his godson Shujah ud-Daula ("Shoojah Adowlah"), son of his nawab Muhammad Zaman Khan ("vizier" or "nawaub Zeman Khan"), led a gang that ambushed and assassinated the shah the next day. In particular, Shujah ud-Daula had been urged in this course by his Usman Khan ("Oosman Khan").<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHusain2018304–306_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHusain2018304–306-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMoon1989552_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMoon1989552-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shah_Shujah_Durrani&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shah_Shujah_Durrani&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica" title="Encyclopædia Britannica">Encyclopædia Britannica</a> – <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9067071/Shah-Shoja">Shah Shoja</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHusain201816-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHusain201816_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHusain2018">Husain 2018</a>, p. 16.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDalrymple201223-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDalrymple201223_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDalrymple2012">Dalrymple 2012</a>, p. 23.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHusain20187-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHusain20187_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHusain2018">Husain 2018</a>, p. 7.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHusain20186-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHusain20186_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHusain2018">Husain 2018</a>, p. 6.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDalrymple201220-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDalrymple201220_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDalrymple2012">Dalrymple 2012</a>, p. 20.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDalrymple201221-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDalrymple201221_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDalrymple2012">Dalrymple 2012</a>, p. 21.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDalrymple201227-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDalrymple201227_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDalrymple2012">Dalrymple 2012</a>, p. 27.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHusain201823-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHusain201823_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHusain2018">Husain 2018</a>, p. 23.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHusain201825-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHusain201825_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHusain2018">Husain 2018</a>, p. 25.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPerry2005111-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPerry2005111_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPerry2005">Perry 2005</a>, p. 111.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHusain2018386-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHusain2018386_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHusain2018">Husain 2018</a>, p. 386.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200229-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200229_13-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200229_13-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200229_13-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200229_13-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200229_13-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMacintyre2002">Macintyre 2002</a>, p. 29.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200230-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200230_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMacintyre2002">Macintyre 2002</a>, p. 30.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200232-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200232_15-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200232_15-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMacintyre2002">Macintyre 2002</a>, p. 32.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200233-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacintyre200233_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMacintyre2002">Macintyre 2002</a>, p. 33.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacintyre2002170–171-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacintyre2002170–171_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMacintyre2002">Macintyre 2002</a>, pp. 170–171.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHusain201835-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHusain201835_18-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHusain2018">Husain 2018</a>, p. 35.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPerry2005112-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPerry2005112_19-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPerry2005">Perry 2005</a>, p. 112.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPerry2005117-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPerry2005117_20-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPerry2005117_20-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPerry2005117_20-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPerry2005">Perry 2005</a>, p. 117.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMoon1989515-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMoon1989515_21-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMoon1989">Moon 1989</a>, p. 515.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPerry2005121-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPerry2005121_22-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPerry2005">Perry 2005</a>, p. 121.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHusain2018304–306-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHusain2018304–306_23-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHusain2018">Husain 2018</a>, pp. 304–306.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMoon1989552-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMoon1989552_24-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMoon1989">Moon 1989</a>, p. 552.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon 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E. (1968). <i>Dictionary of Indian Biography</i>. Haskell House Publishers ltd. p. 385. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0838302774" title="Special:BookSources/978-0838302774"><bdi>978-0838302774</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Dictionary+of+Indian+Biography&rft.pages=385&rft.pub=Haskell+House+Publishers+ltd.&rft.date=1968&rft.isbn=978-0838302774&rft.aulast=Buckland&rft.aufirst=C.+E.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AShah+Shujah+Durrani" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sources">Sources</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shah_Shujah_Durrani&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin" style=""> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDalrymple2012" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/William_Dalrymple_(historian)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Dalrymple (historian)">Dalrymple, William</a> (2012). <i><a href="/wiki/Return_of_a_King" title="Return of a King">Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan</a></i>. Bloomsbury. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1408818305" title="Special:BookSources/978-1408818305"><bdi>978-1408818305</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Return+of+a+King%3A+The+Battle+for+Afghanistan&rft.pub=Bloomsbury&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=978-1408818305&rft.aulast=Dalrymple&rft.aufirst=William&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AShah+Shujah+Durrani" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHusain2018" class="citation book cs1">Husain, Farrukh (2018). <i>Afghanistan in the Age of Empires</i>. Silk Road Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1527216334" title="Special:BookSources/978-1527216334"><bdi>978-1527216334</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Afghanistan+in+the+Age+of+Empires&rft.pub=Silk+Road+Books&rft.date=2018&rft.isbn=978-1527216334&rft.aulast=Husain&rft.aufirst=Farrukh&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AShah+Shujah+Durrani" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMacintyre2002" class="citation book cs1">Macintyre, Ben (2002). <i>The Man Who Would Be King</i>. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0374529574" title="Special:BookSources/978-0374529574"><bdi>978-0374529574</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Man+Who+Would+Be+King&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Farrar%2C+Straus%2C+Giroux&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=978-0374529574&rft.aulast=Macintyre&rft.aufirst=Ben&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AShah+Shujah+Durrani" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMoon1989" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Penderel_Moon" title="Penderel Moon">Moon, Penderel</a> (1989). <i>The British Conquest and Dominion of India</i>. London: Duckworth. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0253338365" title="Special:BookSources/978-0253338365"><bdi>978-0253338365</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+British+Conquest+and+Dominion+of+India&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Duckworth&rft.date=1989&rft.isbn=978-0253338365&rft.aulast=Moon&rft.aufirst=Penderel&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AShah+Shujah+Durrani" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPerry2005" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/James_M._Perry" title="James M. Perry">Perry, James M.</a> (2005). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/arrogantarmiesgr0000perr"><i>Arrogant Armies</i></a></span>. Edison, New Jersey: CastleBooks. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0471119760" title="Special:BookSources/978-0471119760"><bdi>978-0471119760</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Arrogant+Armies&rft.place=Edison%2C+New+Jersey&rft.pub=CastleBooks&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=978-0471119760&rft.aulast=Perry&rft.aufirst=James+M.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Farrogantarmiesgr0000perr&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AShah+Shujah+Durrani" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shah_Shujah_Durrani&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Divan-i-Shuja</i> (1825)</li> <li>Autobiography (1826), described in <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFZimmermann1842" class="citation cs2 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Zimmermann, Carl (1842), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/derkriegsschaup00zimmgoog/page/n195/mode/2up">"Anhang: Schach Schuja"</a> [Appendix: Shah Shujah], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/derkriegsschaup00zimmgoog/page/n5/mode/2up"><i>Der Kriegs-Schauplatz in Inner-Asien, oder, Bemerkungen zu der Uebersichts-Karte von Afghanistan, dem Penjab und dem Lande am untern Indus...</i></a> [<i>The Theater of War in Inner Asia, or, Remarks on the General Map of Afghanistan, the Punjab, and the Land on the Lower Indus</i>] (in German), Berlin: E. H. Schroeder, pp. 181–201</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Anhang%3A+Schach+Schuja&rft.btitle=Der+Kriegs-Schauplatz+in+Inner-Asien%2C+oder%2C+Bemerkungen+zu+der+Uebersichts-Karte+von+Afghanistan%2C+dem+Penjab+und+dem+Lande+am+untern+Indus...&rft.place=Berlin&rft.pages=181-201&rft.pub=E.+H.+Schroeder&rft.date=1842&rft.aulast=Zimmermann&rft.aufirst=Carl&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fderkriegsschaup00zimmgoog%2Fpage%2Fn195%2Fmode%2F2up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AShah+Shujah+Durrani" class="Z3988"></span>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shah_Shujah_Durrani&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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