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| Date transcribed | 2011-03-01 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work. |
| | Surname | Daud Shah | | | Year of Birth | ? | | | Year of Death | 1897 | | | Entry | Of the Lahkan Kheyl, a branch of a tribe of the Ghilzais : at the age of 20 he joined the Army of Amir Dost Muhammad Khan and became Akbar Khan's orderly officer. Shir Ali made him captain for services rendered at the battle of Kajhbaz on June 6, 1865, in ill which Sirdar Muhammad Ali Khan, eldest son of Shir Ali, was killed. Daud Shah showed great bravery during a campaign at Khost and was raised to the rank of General : he defeated Abdur Rahman's forces in Turkistan, and settled the country in Shir Ali's name, but, having quarrelled with General Muhammad Alam, he was recalled to Kabul and imprisoned by Shir Ali. Soon released, he acted as Commander-in-Chief when Yakub Khan rebelled against his father Shir Ali, and when General Faramurz Khan, commanding the Amir's forces, was killed by Aslam Khan, son of Amir Dost Muhammad. Upon Yakub's second rebellion, an army was sent to Herat in which Daud Shah was given a command, but Shir Ali, finding no General at Kabul, recalled him and entrusted him with all army affairs at the capital. In Jan. 1879, when Shir Ali fled to Turkistan, after the capture of Ali Masjid and the Peiwar Kotal by the British troops, Daud Shah was left at Kabul with Yakub Khan and accompanied him to meet Sir S. Browne at Gandamak. He was Yakub's Commander- in-Chief at the time of the massacre of Sir Louis Cavagnari in Sep. 1879, and Yakub's flight to the British camp. During Sir F. Roberts' tenure of Sherpur, at Kabul, Daud Shah was arrested about Dec. 18, 1879, and deported to India : died at Rawul Pindi, Dec. 25, 1897. |
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