dynasty death_date birth_date reign father house death_place coronation spouse image name predecessor succession birth_place full_name issue successor religion article_title
sur dynasty 15 may 1545 1486 17 may 1540 -- 15 may 1545 mian hassan khan sur sur dynasty kalinjar , bundelkhand 1540 malika bibi sher shah suri by breshna.jpg sher shah suri humayun sultan of the suri empire sasaram , rohtas district in india farid khan suri jalal khan islam shah suri islam sher shah suri

sher shah suri

sher shah suri -lrb- 1486 -- 22 may 1545 -rrb- -lrb- -- `` farīd xān Šer Šāh sūrī '' , birth name farid khan , also known as sher khan , `` the lion king '' -rrb- was the founder of the sur empire in north india , with its capital at delhi .
an ethnic pashtun , sher shah took control of the mughal empire in 1540 .
after his accidental death in 1545 , his son islam shah became his successor .
he first served as a private before rising to become a commander in the mughal army under babur and then as the governor of bihar .
in 1537 , when babur 's son humayun was elsewhere on an expedition , sher khan overran the state of bengal and established the sur dynasty .
a brilliant strategist , sher shah proved himself as a gifted administrator as well as a capable general .
his reorganization of the empire laid the foundations for the later mughal emperors , notably akbar the great , son of humayun .
during his five year rule from 1540 to 1545 , he set up a new civic and military administration , issued the first `` rupiya '' and re-organised the postal system of india .
he further developed humayun 's `` dina-panah '' city and named it shergarh and revived the historical city of pataliputra as patna which had been in decline since the 7th century ce .
he is also famously remembered for killing a fully grown tiger with his bare hands in a jungle of bihar .
he extended the grand trunk road from chittagong in the frontiers of the province of bengal in near eastern india to kabul in afghanistan in the far northwest of the country .
