# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/amanullah-khan
# Generated: 2026-09-06T13:04:44.091Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/amanullah-khan"
name: "Amanullah Khan"
slug: "amanullah-khan"
description: "He broke Afghanistan free from British influence in 1919 and then tried to yank the country toward the West — schools, rights, secular reform — faster than it would go. The backlash cost him the throne."
tagline: "King and Emir of Afghanistan (1892-1960)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/King_Amanullah_Khan.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1892-06-01"
deathDate: "1960-04-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.921617342916601
  historical:           23.39667466666667
  currentAttention:     1.641554321966693
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Amanullah Khan became Emir in 1919 and within months ended the Third Anglo-Afghan War, severing Afghanistan's protected status under the United Kingdom and claiming full sovereignty. He declared himself King in 1926 and pushed sweeping modernization — Western-style institutions, social liberalization — that alienated conservative and tribal power centers. In January 1929, an uprising led by Habibullah Kalakani forced him to abdicate and flee to British India as civil war spread. He spent three decades in European exile, eventually dying in Zürich on 26 April 1960. His body was returned and buried in Jalalabad beside his father.