Habibullah : Amir Habibullah Khan (1872-1919) of Afghanistan (then a British protectorate) who maintained ‘satisfactory relations’ with British India by implementing the reforms ‘recommended’ by it.
... lay the basis of a State, strong in itself, organised on modern lines and equipped with scientific knowledge and training. Amir Abdur Rahman consolidated Afghanistan; it is evidently the mission of Habibullah, who seems not inferior in statesmanship to his great father, to modernise it. In Persia the year has brought about a peaceful revolution,—the granting of Parliamentary Government by an Asiatic king ...
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