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Interesting historical tidbits about Sher Shah Sur

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1- I will start by pointing out that the correct spelling of Sher Shah's tribal surname is Sur (سور), not Suri (سوري). This error was originally made by early European writers and repeated by others. In all the pre-modern inscriptions and sources, the nisba of Sher Shah is written as Sur. It is also spelled as Sur in all the pre-modern genealogical accounts of Pashtuns. Sur means red in Pashto. Suri is adjective of Sur (like Kabuli is adjective of the noun Kabul).  2-   The above portrait of Sher Shah Sur belongs to the richly illustrated manuscript of "Tarikh i Khandan-i-Timuriya", prepared by the court painters of Mughal emperor Akbar. It is placed in Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library in Patna. It is published by A. S. Beveridge in her English translation of Humayun-nama. It was made around circa 1570 AD.  3- Farid Khan Sur (Sher Shah) had interest in promotion of education long before his ascendency to power. In 1520 AD, when he was a young man in his 30s, he built