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Emir then King of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929

This article is about the king of Afghanistan. For other uses, see Amanullah Khan (disambiguation).

GhaziAmanullah Khan (Pashto and Persian: غازی امان الله خان; 1 June 1892 – 26 April 1960) was the sovereign of Afghanistan from 1919, first as Emir and after 1926 as King, until his abdication in 1929.^[1] After the end of the Third Anglo-Afghan War in August 1919, Afghanistan was able to relinquish its protected state status to proclaim independence and pursue an independent foreign policy free from the influence of the United Kingdom.^[2]

His rule was marked by dramatic political and social change, including attempts to modernise Afghanistan along Western lines.

He did not fully succeed in achieving this objective due to an uprising by Habibullah Kalakani and his followers. On 14 January 1929, Amanullah abdicated and fled to neighbouring British India as the Afghan Civil War began to escalate.

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