Person · exiled Durrani king
Shah Shuja Durrani
Also known as Shah Shuja ul-Mulk
Shah Shuja ul-Mulk Durrani (4 November 1785 - 5 April 1842), the Durrani king of Afghanistan (1803-1809, 1839-1842) and the Koh-i-Noor's last Afghan possessor. He wore the diamond on a bracelet during Mountstuart Elphinstone's 1808 visit to Peshawar on behalf of the British East India Company. Deposed in 1809, he fled with the diamond to Lahore in 1812 where Ranjit Singh extorted it from him in 1813 (reportedly by having his son tortured in front of him). The British EIC later restored Shah Shuja to the Kabul throne in 1839 during the First Anglo-Afghan War, but he was assassinated at Kabul on 5 April 1842.
- Date
- 1785–1842
- Function
- Authority & administration
- Patron dynasty
- Durrani Empire
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
Connections (1)
- Power passed toKoh-i-Noor
The Koh-i-Noor passed to Ahmad Shah Durrani's grandson Shah Shuja Durrani (ruled 1803-1809 and 1839-1842). Shah Shuja wore the diamond on a bracelet during Mountstuart Elphinstone's 1808 visit to Peshawar on behalf of the British East India Company. After being deposed by his half-brother Mahmud Shah in 1809, he fled first to Attock then to Lahore in 1812, where Maharaja Ranjit Singh of the Sikh Empire extorted the diamond from him in 1813 — reportedly by having Shuja's son tortured in front of him.
On these journeys
Sources
Standard biography.
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