Amanullah Khan

Sovereign Prince of Afghanistan

1 June 1892 Paghman, Principality of Afghanistan

25 April 1960(1960-04-25) (67) Zürich, Switzerland

NamesAbdur Rahman Khan

Emir then King of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929 This article is about the king of Afghanistan. For other uses, see Amanullah Khan (disambiguation). King of Afghanistan Ghazi Amanullah Khan (Pashto: غازي امان الله خان ‎, Dari: غازی امان الله خان ‎; 1 June 1892 – 25 April 1960) was the sovereign of Afghanistan from 1919 until his abdication in 1929, first as Emir and after 1926 as King. After the August 1919 end of the Third Anglo-Afghan War, 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. His rule was marked by dramatic political and social change, attempting to modernize Afghanistan on Western designs, which he did not fully succeed in, 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. From British India, he went to Europe, where after 30 years in exile, he died in Italy, in 1960 (yet apparently and reportedly according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Amanullah would have died in Zürich in Switzerland). His body was brought to Afghanistan and buried in Jalalabad.