Jehandad Khan

Jehandad Khan
Jehandad Khan
Emir of Afghanistan; (Khost only)
	In office; early – late May 1912
Preceded by	Habibullah Khan
Succeeded by	Habibullah Khan
Personal details
Died	1914; Emirate of Afghanistan
Children	Ghaus-ud-din Khan[1]
Tribe	Ghilzai
Military service
Battles/wars	Khost rebellion (1912)

Jehandad Khan (d. 1914) was an Afghan rebel emir who ruled only in Khost. He was born as a member of the Ghilzai tribe,[2] and spent most of his life as a chieftain.[2] After start of the Khost rebellion on 2 May 1912,[3] he briefly laid claim to the Afghan trone in opposition to Habibullah Khan,[2] but an offensive by Muhammad Nadir Khan forced him to flee to the British Raj by the end of the same month.[2] When Jehandad arrived in India, he was given the option of immediately returning to Afghanistan or staying in India, and he chose the latter.[1] He then appealed to the British authorities for an intervention in Afghanistan to aid the rebellion, but was unsuccessful.[2] Later in 1912, Jehandad managed to return to Afghanistan, where he was apprehended, put on trial, sentenced to death and finally executed by a firing squad[1] in 1914.[4]

References

Summary of the Administration of Lord Hardinge of Penhurst, November 1910 – March 1916. pp. 93, 94.
Hale, W. (1966). AFGHANISTAN, BRITAIN AND RUSSIA 1905 - 21. pp. 16, 17, 18.
Chisholm, Hugh (1913). Britannica Year-book, 1913 -: A Survey of the World's Progress Since the Completion in 1910 of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Yapp, Malcolm; Preston, Paul; Partridge, Michael (1999). British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print: From 1945 through 1950. Near and Middle East. University Publications of America. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-55655-765-1.

Regnal titles
Preceded by Habibullah Khan	Emir of Afghanistan May 1912	Succeeded by Habibullah Khan

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[:2-1] Summary of the Administration of Lord Hardinge of Penhurst, November 1910 – March 1916. pp. 93, 94.

[:1-2] Hale, W. (1966). AFGHANISTAN, BRITAIN AND RUSSIA 1905 - 21. pp. 16, 17, 18.

[3] Chisholm, Hugh (1913). Britannica Year-book, 1913 -: A Survey of the World's Progress Since the Completion in 1910 of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica.

[4] Yapp, Malcolm; Preston, Paul; Partridge, Michael (1999). British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print: From 1945 through 1950. Near and Middle East. University Publications of America. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-55655-765-1.