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: For those who are unfamiliar with Afghanistan
: culture and history, allow me to correct the
: misconception about Afghan Royalty.
:
: Afghanistan is Patrilineal Society. All
: offsprings have equal rights under the law
: whether it is ineritance or name. The Seraj
: title which was derived from the Royal title
: of Amir Habibullah Khan
: "Seraj-ul-Millat wa deen", light
: of nation and religion, was adopted by all
: the children of the King in 1953. It was
: not given by HM King Amanulah Khan. The
: children of the first Crown Prince Sardar
: Enyatullah Khan, whose mother was also a
: consort from Tagao, took the same sir name
: of Seraj. Only King Amanullah's children
: took the name of d'Afghanistan, as was the
: norm in Europe to identify the heritage of
: the family.
:
: Therefore, please stand corretcted that in
: Afghanistan all children of the King bears
: Royal titles. The title of Sardar is given
: to all members of the Mohamadzai tribe.
: Again this was not given by HM King amanulla
: Khan.
:
: Before irresponsible and misleading
: statements are made, the writer must educate
: himself on the norms and cultures of the
: Nations in question.
:
Thank you for your kind explanations and clarifications. However, there are a few matters that I am sure we would all appreciate further clarification upon, since they are not very fully covered in the paragraphs posted so far.
Do we understand that "Seraj" is in reality a surname, not actually the name of any "Royal House" of Seraj as pretended?
Wasn't the surname of Seraj already taken into use by some of King Habibullah's children during King Amanullah's reign, even though only generally adopted by all of them in 1953?
How eaxctly, do you come by the title of price? I do not se anything in the explnation which covers that particular matter?
Is it not a fact that whatever the traditional customs may have been in an earlier age, King Amanullah abolished all hereditary titles like Sardar? Thereafter limiting hereditary titles to his immediate family and those of his legitimate brothers in the line of succession? Titles on others being left as only conferred titles by the king, not hereditary to all descendants.
Did the Afghan Constitution have a law of succession? If so, isn't that proof that even if "Afghanistan is Patrilineal Society and all offsprings have equal rights under the law" that has little or nothing to do with the succession to the throne? It may confer certain rights of inheritance to personal property, but not the succession.
Wasn't King Inayatullah, the designated Heir Apparent, the son of Jamal Begum, Badr ul-Haram Shuja’at Sahib, the Aliya Jah, daughter of Abdul Majid Khan Safi, the Chief of the Tago? Though later demoted to the rank of second wife, she was of a quite different status to Zamarud, the latter never described as a wife and her parentage generally unstated.
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