Posted on: 17 December 2012

`Shah Shuja-ool-Mulk', 1835, by Godfrey Thomas Vigne FRGS
Watercolour

Drawn by the artist at Lodiana (Ludhiana), in the Punjab, while the Shah was in exile and under the protection of Ranjit Singh: see Vigne, A Personal Narrative of a Visit to Ghuzni, Kabul, And Afghanistan ..., 1840, pp.7-9 & 353-4. Installed by the British as Amir of Kabul, in place of Dost Muhammad Khan, 1840. Of the Sirdozye family, and not the brother of Dost Muhammad, who was a Barukzye.

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