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Remnants of the Sur Dynasty
In 1556, after Sher Shah's death and internal strife, Afghan Sur successors like Adil Shah could not hold together, and real power fell to the vizier…
Timeline
- 1545–1556North India · North IndiaAfter Sher Shah's death in 1545, successors such as Islam Shah and Adil Shah fought constantly and the Sur Empire rapidly fragmented. By 1556 the nominal sultan Adil Shah could no longer control the situation, and real power lay with senior ministers such as Hemu.
- 1556Delhi · DelhiAs commander of the Sur remnants, Hemu recaptured Delhi and proclaimed himself emperor; the Sur remnants made one last attempt at North Indian unification in 1556, but it had already slipped from the direct control of the original Afghan Sur family.
- 1556Panipat · HaryanaThe Sur side suffered a crushing defeat in the Second Battle of Panipat; Hemu was killed and the North Indian Sur regime collapsed. The Mughals recaptured Delhi, but Sur descendants in places like Bengal maintained local rule until the 1570s.
Sources
- Sher Shah Suri and His Dynasty — Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui
- The Cambridge Economic History of India, Volume I — Tapan Raychaudhuri, Irfan Habib (1982)