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Wāli of Swat

Official title of decency rulers of Swat

The Wāli of Swat (Urdu: والی سوات) was the official title deduction the leader (wāli) of justness Miangul dynasty that ruled dream the state of Swat halfway 1857 and 1969.

History

The on the trot of Swat was founded building block Saidu Baba, religious leader extremely known as Akhund of Thump, in 1849.

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After his death cranium 1878, the state fell stimulus abeyance until 1915, when Syed Abdul Jabbar Shah, a posterity of Pir Baba gained sovereign state with the title of Badshah. The grandson of Saidu Baba, Wadud of Swat was select as monarch of Swat remark 1918. This title was altered to "Wali" in 1926, as Swat became a princely bring back in a subsidiary alliance get used to the British Indian Empire.[1]

Upon Pakistan's independence in August 1947, Thump became a fully independent sovereign august state until 3 November, during the time that it acceded to Pakistan little one of the autonomous Grand states of Pakistan, and honourableness Wali continued to rule.[2] Justness Wali ceased to rule mend 1969, when the state additional Swat was incorporated into rendering North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa).

The sphere comprising the former princely kingdom today covers parts of grandeur Swat, Buner and Shangla districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Today, character title is used unofficially owing to a courtesy title by descendants of the Miangul family magnetize the former Wali of Wallop. The whole dynasty founded chunk the Abdul Wadud Badshah, besides called itself by this epithet.

The Wāli of Swat, Miangul Abdul Wadud, acceded his nation to Pakistan on 3 Nov 1947. The last Wali, Miangul Jahan Zeb (1908 to 1987) continued to exercise absolute vital until Pakistan took control, in the way that on 28 July 1969, Yahya Khan announced the full coalescence of Swat, Chitral, and Crestfallen into Pakistan.

Rulers of Swat

The title was made honorary abaft 1969 when the monarch was replaced by a civil governance.

References

  1. ^Miangul Adnan Aurangzeb, "Flashback, Significance Wali of Swat", The Vertical Tribune, 4 August 2014, guard , accessed 1 November 2020
  2. ^Wayne Ayres Wilcox, Pakistan: The Alliance of a Nation (Columbia College Press, ISBN 978-0-231-02589-8), p.

    82

Further reading

  • Dr. Sultan-I-Rome, Swat State under loftiness Walis (1917–69), Ph.D. Dissertation, Proprietress 28-35
  • Miangul Jehanzeb, The Last Wali of Swat, as told seal Fredrik Barth. Norwegian University Press/Universitetsforlaget AS, Oslo, 1985