Jahan Khan Durrani That was the first half of the eighteenth century A.D. in India. The once acclaimed Taimurid dynasty was in the worst condition. Suddenly, there appeared on the Indian horizon a star that surprisingly changed the plight of the Muslim community of the Indian sub-continent. That unforgettable personality, the great Ahmad Shah Abdali or Durrani of Afghanistan, will forever be remembered due to his splendid deed of emancipating the helpless and suppressed Indian Muslim population from the valiant Marathas who were growing more and more powerful those days by inflicting upon them the crushing defeat at Panipat. The Indian Muslims, having seen the days of their prestigious past on the very this land, were facing severe hardships at the hands of the Sikhs, the Hindu Jats, the Sutnami Faqirs, and then the ferocious Marathas from the Deccan peninsula, a new scourge for them since the time of Aurang Zeb Alamgir, only because of the mutual rivalries and strong ...
