Azim Khan was the Afghan governor of Map of Kashmir showing the Line of Control and disputed areas Market boats on Mar Canal, Srinigar by E. Molyneux, c. 1908 Kashmir is a region in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent. The term Kashmir historically described the valley just to the south of the westernmost end of...
Kashmir during the period 1810-1816. Prior to him the governor was Abdullah Khan Alukzai (1796-1808).
Azim Khan owed Maharaja Ranjit Singh was a Sikh ruler of the Punjab. His tomb is located in Lahore, Pakistan. External links Ranjit Singh profile from sikh-history.com Categories: Stub | Sikhism | Indian history ...
Ranjit Singh an annual tribute of 8 lakh rupees. He reufsed to pay up and Ranjit Singh invaded, but Azim Khan was able to rout this army.
At the end of 6 years of rule, he took 2 crores of rupee worth of property, and appointed his younger brother Jabbar Khan as the governor. Jabbar Khan was defeated by the Ranjit Singh Army in 1819.
But after a few months Afzul Khan raised an insurrection in the northern province, between the Hindu Kush mountains and the Oxus, where he had been governing when his father died; and then began a fierce contest for power among the sons of Dost Mahomed, which lasted for nearly five years.
Although his father, Afzul Khan, who had none of these qualities, came to terms with the Amir Shere Ali, the son's behaviour in the northern province soon excited the amir's suspicion, and Abdur Rahman, when he was summoned to Kabul, fled across the Oxus into Bokhara.
At the durbar on the 22nd of July 1880, Abdur Rahman was officially recognized as amir, granted assistance in arms and money, and promised, in case of unprovoked foreign aggression, such further aid as might be necessary to repel it, provided that he followed British advice in regard to his external relations.
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