Sher Shah Suri
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 38 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5116-8070-5
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sher Shah Suri (1486 – May 22, 1545) (Pashto: ???? ??? ??? ??? ???? - Sir Sah Suri, Bengali: ??? ??? ????), birth name Farid Khan, also known as Sher Khan (The Lion King), was the founder of the short-lived Sur Empire in northern India, with its capital at Delhi, before its demise in the hands of the resurgent Mughal Empire. An Afghan (Pathan) by origin, he defeated the Mughals and took control of India in 1540 until an accidental death in 1545 when Islam Shah Suri became his successor. He first served as a private before rising to become a commander in the Mughal Army under Babur and then as the governor of Bihar. In 1537, when Babur's son Emperor Humayun was elsewhere on an expedition, Sher Khan turned against his master and overran the state of Bengal to established the Sur Empire. A soldier of fortune, Sher Khan also proved himself a gifted administrator as well as an able general. His reorganization of the empire laid the foundations...