Inayatullah Khan

Inayatullah Khan Seraj (October 20, 1888 – August 12, 1946) was the King of Afghanistan for three days in January 1929. He was the son of former Afghan Emir, Habibullah Khan. Inayatullah's brief reign ended with his abdication.

For other uses, see Inayatullah Khan (disambiguation).

Inayatu'llah Khan
King of the God granted Kingdom of Afghanistan and its dependencies
Portrait of Inayatuallah Khan, 1929
King of Afghanistan
Reign	January 14, 1929 – January 17, 1929
Coronation	None
Predecessor	Amanullah Khan
Successor	Habibullāh Kalakāni (In Kabul) Ali Ahmad Khan (In Jalalabad)
Born	October 20, 1888 Kabul, Emirate of Afghanistan
Died	August 12, 1946 (aged 57) Tehran, Imperial Iran
Consort	Khairiya Khanum Effendi
Dynasty	Barakzai
Father	Habibullah Khan
Mother	Jamal Begum
Religion	Sunni Islam

In the middle of the night, on January 14, 1929, Amanullah Khan handed over his kingship to his brother Inayatullah Khan and tried to secretly escape from Kabul to Kandahar. Habibullāh Kalakāni and his followers chased Amanullah's Rolls Royce on horseback but Amanullah managed to escape.

With the King gone, Kalakani wrote a letter to King Inayatullah to either surrender or prepare for war. Inayatullah's response was that he had never sought nor wished to be king and agreed to abdicate and proclaim Kalakani as king on January 18, 1929.[1] Inayatullah was airlifted out of Kabul by the Royal Air Force[2] and spent the remainder of his life in exile. In August 1929, during the Afghan civil war of 1928-29, there were rumours in Kabul that rupees bearing Inayatullah's name were circulating among anti-Kalakani forces. This led some to believe that Inaytullah had begun to contest the Afghan throne. However, nothing came of this, and the rumours quickly subsided.[3] Inayatullah remained in British India, until his death in Tehran in 1946.

References

1. Embassy of Afghanistan in Tokyo
2. "RAF 'Heroes of Kabul': 80th Anniversary. Royal Air Force official website". Archived from the original on 2016-01-05. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
3. Muḥammad, Fayz̤; Hazārah, Fayz̤ Muḥammad Kātib (1999). Kabul Under Siege: Fayz Muhammad's Account of the 1929 Uprising. Markus Wiener Publishers. pp. 232, 233. ISBN 9781558761551.

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Inayatullah Khan Barakzai Dynasty Born: 20 October 1888 Died: 12 August 1946
Regnal titles
Preceded by Amanullah Khan	King of Afghanistan 1929	Succeeded by Habibullah Kalakani (In Kabul) Ali Ahmad Khan (In Jalalabad)