Sher Khanji Babi

{{short description|Founder of the Babi Dynasty of India (17th century)}}

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| father = Bahadur Khan Babi

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Shēr Khānji Babi was the Afghan founder of the Babi dynasty of Hindustan.

Muhammad Sher Khan Ji hailed from the Babai clan of Pashtuns. He served as a distinguished officer in the Imperial service in Delhi.The Golden Book of India - A Genealogical and Biographical Dictionary of the Ruling Princes, Chiefs, Nobles, and Other Personages, Titled Or Decorated, of the Indian Empire by Sir Roper Lethbridge (1893) His forefather was Adil Khan Babi of Kandahar who came to India with Humayun.[https://books.google.com.au/books?redir%20esc=y&id=OgRuAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=babi+dynasty Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah Papers: Pakistan: pangs of birth] (2000) M. Akram Shaheedi, Quaid-i-Azam Papers Project, Z. H. Zaidi Sher Khanji was a deputy governor of Saurashtra who would go on to establish the Babi dynasty.Encyclopaedia Indica: Princely states in colonial India-I (1996)[https://web.archive.org/web/20170520212059/http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/j/junagadh.html JUNAGADH (Princely State)] Royal House