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Shah Shuja Durrani (Pashto/Persian: شاه شجاع درانی ; November 1785 – 5 April 1842) was ruler of the Durrani Empire from 1803 to 1809. He then ruled from 1839 until his death in 1842. Son of Timur Shah Durrani, Shuja Shah was of the Sadduzai line of the Abdali group of ethnic Pashtuns. He became the fifth King of the Durrani Empire.
Mirza Shah Shuja (Persian: میرزا شاه شجاع) (23 June 1616 – 7 February 1661) was the second son of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and Empress Mumtaz Mahal. He was the governor of Bengal and Odisha and had his capital at Dhaka , in present day Bangladesh .
Shāh Shojāʿ (born 1780—died April 1842, Kabul, Afghanistan) was the shāh, or king, of Afghanistan (1803–10; 1839–42) whose alliance with the British led to his death. Shojāʿ ascended the throne in 1803 after a long fratricidal war.
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The Durrani Empire, [b] or the Afghan Empire, [c] [9] also known as the Sadozai Kingdom, [d] [10] was an Afghan empire founded by the Durrani tribe of Pashtuns under Ahmad Shah Durrani in 1747, which spanned parts of Central Asia, the Iranian plateau, and the Indian subcontinent.
An article that explores the life and role of Shah Shuja, a Durrani Afghan monarch, during the first Anglo-Afghan war of 1839-1842. It uses colonial archival materials to challenge the Pashtun domination hypothesis and to reinterpret the historiography of Afghanistan.
In Battle of Bahadurpur. …1657, his four sons—Dārā Shikōh, Shāh Shujāʿ, Aurangzeb, and Murād Bakhsh—fought for power: Shujāʿ, the second son—who had quickly set himself up as the independent governor of Bengal—was defeated at Bahadurpur, 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Benares (now Varanasi) in Uttar Pradesh state, by Dārā’s ...
Shah Shuja (1639-1660 AD) Mughal viceroy of subah Bangla, was the second son of Emperor shahjahan and Empress Mumtaj Mahal. Born on 23 June 1616, he took part, as a prince, in various campaigns and gathered experience both as a military general and an administrator.
