This book tells Sher Shah's story as if it has never been told before. It traces the remarkable career of the greatest Afghan king of India in all its essetial detail, keeping in sight the interrelationship between India and the Afghans and the currents and cross-currents of events pertaining to the age. The account brings out the man behind the king and determineshis placein, and impact on, history from an all-encompassing perspective.