This article is about the founder of the Barakzai dynasty of Afghanistan. For the founder of Bhopal State in India, see Dost Mohammad of Bhopal. For the town in Iran, see Dust Mohammad. For other similar names, see Dost Mohammad (disambiguation).
Dost Mohammad Khan دوست محمد خان
Amir al-Mu'minin Amir-I-Kabir The Great Amir
Dost Mohammad Khan in The World's Inhabitants by George Thomas Bettany
Emir of Afghanistan
Reign
Summer 1826 – 2 August 1839 1843 – 9 June 1863
Predecessor
Sultan Mohammad Khan
Successor
Wazir Akbar Khan Sher Ali Khan
Born
23 December 1792 Kandahar, Durrani Empire
Died
9 June 1863 (aged 70) Herat, Emirate of Afghanistan
Burial
Shrine of Khwaja Abd Allah (Gazur Gah), Herat, Afghanistan[1]
Spouse
16 wives[2]
Issue
27 sons and 25 daughters at the time of his death[3]
Names
Amir Dost Mohammad Khan Barakzai
Dynasty
Barakzai dynasty
Father
Sardar Payinda Khan Mohammadzai (Sarfraz Khan)
Mother
Zainab Begum[4]
Religion
Sunni Islam
Military career
Battles/wars
Battle of Nimla (1809)
Battle of Attock (1813)
Dost Mohammad's Campaign to Jalalabad (1834)
Expedition of Shuja ul-Mulk
Standoff at the Khyber Pass (1834–1835)
Afghan Turkestan Campaign of 1838-39
First Anglo-Afghan War
Parwan Campaign (1840)
Hazarajat Campaign of 1843
Afghan Conquest of Balkh
Conquest of Kandahar
Afghan Conquest of Kunduz
Herat campaign of 1862–1863
Emir Dost Mohammad Khan Barakzai (Pashto/Persian: دوست محمد خان; December 23, 1792 – June 8, 1863), nicknamed the Amir-i Kabir,[5][6][7] was the founder of the Barakzai dynasty and one of the prominent rulers of Afghanistan during the First Anglo-Afghan War.[8] With the decline of the Durrani dynasty, he became the Emir of Afghanistan in 1826.[9] An ethnic Pashtun, he belonged to the Barakzai tribe. He was the 11th son of Payendah Khan, chief of the Barakzai Pashtuns, who was killed in 1799 by King Zaman Shah Durrani.[3]
At the beginning of his rule, the Afghans lost their former stronghold of Peshawar Valley in March 1823 to the Sikh Khalsa Army of Ranjit Singh at the Battle of Nowshera. The Afghan forces in the battle were led by Azim Khan, half-brother of Dost Mohammad Khan.[10] By the end of his reign, he had reunited the principalities of Kandahar and Herat with Kabul. Dost had ruled for a lengthy 36 years, a span broken only by Zahir Shah more than a century later.
The Musahiban family started with his older brother, Sultan Mohammad Khan, nicknamed "Telai", meaning "golden", a nickname he was given because of his love of fine clothing.[11]
^Dalrymple, W. (2013). The Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan. Borzoi book. Bloomsbury. p. 478. ISBN 978-1-4088-1830-5. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
^ abTarzi, Amin H. "DŌSTMOḤAMMAD KHAN". Encyclopædia Iranica (Online ed.). United States: Columbia University.
^"DŌST MOḤAMMAD KHAN". Iranonline. 15 December 1995. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
^McChesney, Robert; Khorrami, Mohammad Mehdi (19 December 2012). The History of Afghanistan (6 vol. set): Fayż Muḥammad Kātib Hazārah's Sirāj al-tawārīkh. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-23498-7.
^Yusuf, Mohamed (1988). A History of Afghanistan, from 1793 A.D. to 1865 A.D. New York University. ISBN 1466222417.
^Kakar, M. Hasan (2006). A Political and Diplomatic History of Afghanistan, 1863-1901. Brill. p. 10. ISBN 978-90-04-15185-7.
^Encyclopædia Britannica – Dost Mohammad Khan, "ruler of Afghanistan (1823–63) and founder of the Barakzay dynasty, who maintained Afghan independence during a time when the nation was a focus of political struggles between Great Britain and Russia..."
^"Anglo-afghan wars", Encyclopaedia Iranica
^Munshi.
^Noelle, Christine (1997). State and Tribe in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan: The Reign of Amir Dost Muhammad Khan (1826–1863). Routldege. p. 19. ISBN 978-0700706297. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
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