Mandesh is the historical name by which the mountain region of
Ghor
Ghōr ( Dari: ), also spelled Ghowr or Ghur, is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is located in the western Hindu Kush in central Afghanistan, towards the northwest. The province contains eleven districts, encompassing hundre ...
was called.
[E.J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936, Volume 7 By Martijn Theodoor Houtsma Page 161]
Having major historical places which famoused The time of war of marathe vs Mughal saltanat.
History
The region was governed under a
Malik
Malik, Mallik, Melik, Malka, Malek, Maleek, Malick, Mallick, or Melekh ( phn, 𐤌𐤋𐤊; ar, ملك; he, מֶלֶךְ) is the Semitic term translating to "king", recorded in East Semitic and Arabic, and as mlk in Northwest Semitic duri ...
named '
Amir Suri
Amīr Sūrī ( fa, امیر سوری) was the king of the Ghurid dynasty from the 9th-century to the 10th-century. According to some legends, He was a descendant of the Ghurid king Amir Banji, whose rule was legitimized by the Abbasid caliph Haru ...
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and the population
[Satish Chandra, ''Medieval India:From Sultanat to the Mughals-Delhi Sultanat (1206-1526)'', Part 1, (Har-Anand Publications, 2006), 22.] was not yet converted to Islam.
Mandeshi maaybol
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Ghōr Province
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Sur (Pashtun tribe)
Notes
References
Geographic history of Afghanistan
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