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  Dost Mahommed Khan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His elder brother, the chief of the Barakzai, Fatteh Khan, took an important part in raising Mahmud Shah to the sovereignty of Afghanistan in 1800 and in restoring him to the throne in 1809.
Dost Mahommed was enjoined to abandon the attempt to recover Peshawar, and to place his foreign policy under British guidance.
Closely followed by the British, Dost was driven to extremities, and on November 4, 1840 surrendered as a prisoner.
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 Encyclopedia: History of Afghanistan
Following Genghis Khan's death in 1227, a succession of petty chiefs and princes struggled for supremacy until late in the 14th century, when one of his descendants, Timur Lenk, incorporated what is today Afghanistan into his own vast Asian empire.
Prince Mohammed Nadir Khan, a cousin of Amanullah's, in turn defeated Bacha-i-Saqao in October of the same year and, with considerable Pashtun tribal support, was declared King Nadir Shah.
Mohammad Zahir Shah, Nadir Khan's 19-year-old son, succeeded to the throne and reigned from 1933 to 1973.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/History-of-Afghanistan   (6724 words)

  
 Dost Mahommed Khan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Dost Mahommed Khan (1793 - June 9, 1863) founded the Barakzai ruling dynasty in (A mountainous landlocked country in central Asia; bordered by Iran to the west and Russia to the north and Pakistan to the east and south) Afghanistan.
He was defeated by Dost Mahommed under the walls of (A city in southern Afghanistan; an important trading center) Kandahar, but Ranjit Singh seized the opportunity to annex (City in northern Pakistan at the eastern end of the Khyber Pass) Peshawar.
Dost Mahommed was enjoined to abandon the attempt to recover (City in northern Pakistan at the eastern end of the Khyber Pass) Peshawar, and to place his foreign policy under British guidance.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/do/dost_mahommed_khan.htm   (913 words)

  
 Dost Mohammed Khan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
His elder brother, the chief of the Barakzai, Fatteh Khan, took an important part in raising Mahmud Shah to the sovereignty of Afghanistan in 1800 and inrestoring him to the throne in 1809.
Dost Mahommed was enjoined to abandon the attempt to recover Peshawar,and to place his foreign policy under British guidance.
On March 30, 1855 Dost Mahommed reversedhis former policy by concluding an offensive and defensive alliance with the British government.
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 Bhopal - Freepedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Khan's nephew assassinated the Gond Queen Kamalapati's husband, he punished his own nephew to death and restored the Queen's little kingdom back to her.
Although Dost Mohammed Khan was the virtual ruler of Bhopal, he still acknowledged the suzerainty of the declining Mughal Empire.
By the 1730's the Marathas were expanding into the region, and Dost Mohammed Khan and his successors fought wars with their neighbours to protect the small territory and also fought among themselves for control of the state.
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 Encyclopedia: Dost Mohammed and the British in Afghanistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
It was not until 1826 that the energetic Dost Mohammad was able to exert sufficient control over his brothers to take over the throne in Kabul, where he proclaimed himself amir.
Dost Mohammad achieved prominence among his brothers through clever use of the support of his mother's Qizilbash tribesmen and his own youthful apprenticeship under his brother, Fateh Khan.
In 1836 Dost Mohammad's forces, under the command of his son Mohammad Akbar Khan, defeated the Sikhs at Jamrud, a post fifteen kilometers west of Peshawar.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dost-Mohammed-and-the-British-in-Afghanistan   (4065 words)

  
 Dost Mohammed Khan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
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 Dramatis Personae
The British subsequently withdrew from Kandahar, and ceded it to the Amir of Kabul, Ayub Khan's cousin Abdur Rahman.
Dost's relationship with the British and with Burnes was undermined, however, by a communication in January 1838 from Lord Auckland, demanding that he cease treating with the Russians, as well as give up his claims on Peshawar, in favour of the Sikh claims of Ranjit Singh.
Dost Mohammed's family is extremely complicated, yet it helps to know something about it in order to better understand the history of his coming to power, and the struggles for power during his life and after his death.
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 DOST MOHAMMED KHAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Dost Mahommed Khan (1793 - June 9, 1863), founder of the dynasty of the Barakzai in Afghanistan.
His elder brother, the chief of the Barakzai, Fatteh Khan, took an important part in raising Mahmud to the sovereignty of Afghanistan in 1800 and in restoring him to the throne in 1809.
Of these Dost Mahommed received for his share Ghazni, to which in 1826 he added Kabul, the richest of the Afghan provinces.
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/DOST+MOHAMMED+KHAN   (693 words)

  
 Shir Ali Khan of Afghanistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shir Ali Khan (1825–February 21, 1879) was the Emir of Afghanistan from 1863 to 1866 and from 1868 until his death.
He was the third son of Dost Mohammed Khan, who founded the Barakzay Dynasty.
Shir Ali initially seized power when his father died, but was quickly ousted by his older brother, Mohammed Afzal Khan.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shir_Ali_Khan_of_Afghanistan   (166 words)

  
 Summary of John W. Kaye's History of the War in Afghanistan by Frederick Engels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
In Khelat, Mchrab Khan was attacked at MacNaghten’s instigation for being a traitor (!), and Khelat stormed by Willshire, who seemed to have remained in the area with the 2nd and 17th Queen’s and 31st Native Infantry together with cavalry and artillery.
Dost Mohammed was everywhere and nowhere, it was often said 40-50 miles from Kabul, where the Balahissar were being armed.
Mahomed Akbar Khan, Dost Mohammed’s son, arrived in Kabul and became chief of the Afghans.
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 Battle of Naushera, opened gateway to NWFP
In 1821, Dost Mohammed Khan and Yar Mohammed Khan, two Afghanis were able to expel the Maharaja's nominee Jahan Dad Khan from Peshawar and thus an expedition was undertook by Punjabi forces.
Dost Mohammed Khan managed to reconcile by paying a handsome nazarana to Maharaja and by accepting the submission to Khalsa kingdom rather than to kingdom of Kabul.
Yar Mohammed was reinvested governor of Peshawar on promising an increased annual revenue of Rs.
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 Afghanistan from Ahmad Shah until Dost Mohammed
Painda Khan and the chiefs of the Nurzai[?] and the Alizai[?] Durrani clans were executed, as was the chief of the Qizilbash[?] clan.
Painda Khan's son fled to Iran and pledged the substantial support of his Muhammadzai followers to a rival claimant to the throne, Zeman's older brother, Mahmud Shah[?].
From 1818 until Dost Mohammad's[?] ascendancy in 1826, chaos reigned in the domains of Ahmad Shah Durrani's empire as various sons of Painda Khan[?] struggled for supremacy.
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 Palestine Chronicle
Harlan reached Kabul in 1828, met with Dost Mohammed, and found him to be as sophisticated as any Western ruler.
The armies of The Maharaja and Dost Mohammed met at Peshawar to battle.
Dost Mohammed then sent Harlan to negotiate alliances with Britain and Russia that would enable him to recapture Peshawar.
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 Chapter 3<BR>Afghanistan 1800-1830<BR>The Collapse
The support of Painda Khan, chief of the Baraksai branch of the Durrani tribe, was decisive in his victory.
As Mahmud's right hand, Fateh Khan was given a free rein and he energetically suppressed rebellious tribes and provinces and in 1816 he was given an opportunity to extend his power to Herat.
Fateh Khan came to Herat with an army although the resulting battle with the Persians was indecisive.
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 Afghan Wars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
This led Lord Auckland, the Governor-General of India, to conclude that Dost Mohammed was anti-British and the decision was taken to replace him as Emir with a former ruler, Shah Shuja who was considered to be more malleable.
Dost Mohammed fled from Kabul and Shah Shuja was duly installed as Emir in August.
In response to this Roberts occupied Kabul and Yakub Khan was deposed before a popular rising forced Roberts to fall back to his base at Sherpur where he was besieged for three weeks by a huge Afghan force.
www.national-army-museum.ac.uk /pages/afghan.html   (963 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Dost Mohammed
March 30 is the 89th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (90th in Leap years).
May 26 is the 146th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (147th in leap years).
The Rise of Dost Mohammad It was not until 1826 that the energetic Dost Mohammad was able to exert sufficient control over his brothers to take over the throne in Kabul, where he proclaimed himself amir.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dost-Mohammed   (1374 words)

  
 Afghanistan Country Study
When Painda Khan, who had been Timur's adviser and was the chief of the Muhammadzai clan, came to Zeman's support, his accession to the throne was assured.
Fateh Khan's youngest brother, Dost Mohammad, whose mother had been a Qizilbash, persuaded his mother's tribesmen in Kabul to join him in removing all of the shah's followers from Kabul.
Dost Mohammad achieved predominance among his ambitious brothers through clever use of the support of his mother's Qizilbash tribesmen and his own youthful apprenticeship under his brother, Fateh Khan.
www.gl.iit.edu /govdocs/afghanistan/AhmedShahDurranni.html   (4715 words)

  
 Afghanistan History
Treaty of Peshawar: Dost Mohammed and the British agree to form an alliance against the Persians who are laying seige at Herat.
Amir Inayatullah Khan and the Fall of the House of Baraksay (brother): Inayatullah is given the throne by his brother Amanullah who abdicates in his favour.
Dismissal of Prime Minister Daud Khan: Is dismissed by the King after hardship caused by prolonged closure of the Pakistani Border over the Pashtun Affair, and due to his convictions on social and democratic reform which were opposed by the King.
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 Akbar Khan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mohammad Akbar Khan (?-1849) was an Afghan general.
He was active in the First Anglo-Afghan War, which lasted from 1839-1842.
Akbar was the son of Dost Mohammed Khan, and he led a revolt in Kabul against the British mission of William McNaughten, Alexander 'Sekundar' Burnes and their garrison of 4, 500 men.
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 The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
One day Dost Mohammed feared that he was ill, and close to dying, and he called his fifty-four sons to him.
They came from the far peaceful corners of the kingdom of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan to the great city he had caused to be built, and as they rode through the country, they were not troubled or threatened.
You, alone among my sons, are truly my son." And after that embrace, the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan lived in peace and plenty for years to come, in the knowledge of his wisdom and the knowledge of the wisdom of his son.
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 Blundering Into Afghanistan - The Great Game has repeatedly foiled the great powers.  By David Greenberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Dost Mohammed, however, insisted that the British help him in his jihad to recapture Peshawar, in the East, which had fallen to the Sikhs.
Back in Kabul, Shujah was assassinated and Dost Mohammed restored to the throne for 20 years.
In what Hopkirk calls "a rare stroke of imagination," British leaders placed on the throne Abdur Rahman, a grandson of Dost Mohammed with ties to Russia—appeasing the Russians, the British themselves, and the Afghans, who considered him one of their own.
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 Bhopal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Dhai Seedhi Masjid (2-1/2 stairs mosque) was built in early 18th century when a rampart was converted into mosque.
Islam Nagar: It has the ruins of the old city built by Dost Mohd.
Purana Kila: Situated in the Kamala Nehru Park, it is a part of the 300-year old fort of Queen Kamalapati.
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 Winds of Change.NET: The Man Who Would Be King - For Real
And, amazingly enough he succeeded, becoming the prince of the Hazaras in central Afghanistan under Dost Mohammed Khan, the ruler forced out by Macnaghten and Burnes.
Dost Mohammed's son, Akbar Khan, led the bloody revolt which drove the British out of Afghanistan and murdered all but one of the British forces, wives, children, and camp followers.
As a student of Dost Mohammed Khan's rule, Harlan firmly believed there was only one way to ensure peace in Afghanistan: co-option and bribery, using the existing system of chieftainships.
www.windsofchange.net /archives/the_man_who_would_be_king_for_real-print.php   (412 words)

  
 Upto11.net - Wikipedia Article for Bhopal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
When Dost Mohammed Khan's nephew assassinated the Gond Queen Kamalapati's husband, he punished his own nephew to death and restored the Queen's little kingdom back to her.
After the death of last Gond queen, Dost Mohammed Khan took and seized the little Gond Kingdom and established his capital 10andnbsp;km away from modern Bhopal, at Jagdishpur.
The Hindu Marathas conquered several nearby states, including Indore to the west and Gwalior to the north, but Bhopal remained a Muslim-ruled state under Dost Mohammed Khan's successors.
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 History of Afghanistan - The History Beat
Dost Mohammed returned to the throne and fought the Sikhs.
Dost Mohammed signed a treaty with the British and allowed them to return to Kandahar, then recaptured Herat.
However the second elected parliament of 1969 became deadlocked, leading Mohammed Daoud Khan to stage a coup d'état on July 17, 1973 while Zahir was in Italy.
history.searchbeat.com /afghanistan.htm   (4392 words)

  
 indya.com Music - Profile of Mohammed Rafi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Rafi was born on December 24, 1924 in a small village near Amritsar and later shifted to Lahore.
He was first trained in music by Ghulam Ali Khan and he recorded his first song in 1944 for a Punjabi film Gul Baloch with music director Shyam Sunder.
His last song was Tu kahin aas paas hai dost for Laxmikant Pyarelal in the film Aas Paas.
music.indya.com /biographies/ind/mohd_rafi.html   (486 words)

  
 Dost Muhammad Khan - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
State and Tribe in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan: The Reign of Amir Dost Muhammad Khan, 1826-1863
Life of the amir Dost Mohammed Khan of Kabul: With his political proceedings towards the English, Russian, and Persian governments, including the victory...
Life of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan of Kabul (Oxford in Asia historical reprints from Pakistan)
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /dost_muhammad_khan.htm   (74 words)

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