biography
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Nadir Shah, Mohammed
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1880–1933)
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| biography:
| King of Afghanistan (1929–33). As commander-in-chief to Amanullah Khan, he played a prominent role in the 1919 Afghan War against Britain which secured the country's full independence in 1922. He subsequently fell into disfavour, and was forced to live in exile in France. In 1929, with British diplomatic support, he returned to Kabul and seized the throne, immediately embarking on a programme of economic and social modernization. These reforms, however, alienated the Muslim clergy, and in 1933 he was assassinated. He was succeeded by his son, Mohammed Zahir Shah. |
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