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3 unusual facts about Sher Shah Suri


Architecture of Dhaka

Some of the first and most characteristic examples that remain of early Mughal architecture were built in the short reign (1540–1545) of emperor Sher Shah Suri, who was not a Mughal; they include a mosque known as the Qila-i-Kuhna mosque (1541) at Purana Quila, Delhi, and the military architecture of the Old Fort in Delhi, the Lalbagh Fort in Bangladesh, and Rohtas Fort, near Jhelum in Pakistan.

Farid Khan

Sher Shah Suri, also known as Sher Khan, birth name Farid Khan, (1486–1545), an ethnic Pashtun emperor, founder of the Sur Empire in northern South Asia

Silver coin

The word rupee was coined by Sher Shah Suri, a renagade governor who broke off from the Mughal Empire during his short rule of northern India between (1540–1545).


Humayun

Humayun decided that it would be wise to withdraw still further, Humayun and his army rode out through and across the Thar Desert, when the Hindu ruler Rao Maldeo Rathore allied himself with Sher Shah Suri against the Mughal Empire.

Humayun's Tomb

Constructed in 1547 CE, it is the tomb complex of Isa Khan Niyazi, an Afghan noble in Sher Shah Suri's court of the Suri dynasty, who fought against the Mughals.

Sarai Kale Khan

The name Sarai derives from the time of the rule of the Afghan Sher Shah Suri, under whom a paved road network was built, with roadside inns called "Serais" every twelve miles.

Shah Allah Ditta

The village is believed to be more than seven hundred years old and was used as route from Kabul to Gandharan city of Taxila by Alexander and Sher Shah Suri while Mughal rulers and other emperors often passed through while traveling from Afghanistan to the Hindustan.

Shahbaz Khan Kamboh

The system had been earlier in vogue during Alauddin Khilji as well as Sher Shah Suri but was discontinued during Mughal rule and was replaced with fief system which came to be badly misused by the Amirs and the officers.


see also

Jhawrian

Jhawarian is located on the Sher Shah Suri highway, between Shah Pur and Behra, and three kilometres from Kalrah : having the highest MINAAR in JAMIa MASJID which was constructed by Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana .