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| name = Muhammad Sher Khan Babai<br />
| title = [[Nawab|Nawāb]]<br />
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| royal house = [[Babai (Pashtun tribe)|Babai]]<br />
| dynasty = [[Babi dynasty|Babi]]<br />
| father = Bahadur Khan Babai<br />
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'''Shēr Khānji Babi''' was the [[Afghan (ethnonym)|Afghan]] founder of the [[Babi dynasty]] of [[Hindustan]].<br />
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Muhammad Sher Khan [[-ji|Ji]] hailed from the [[Babai (Pashtun tribe)|Babai]] clan of [[Pashtuns]]. He served as a distinguished officer in the [[Mughal Empire|Imperial]] service in [[Delhi]].<ref>''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)</ref> His forefather was Adil Khan Babi of [[Kandahar]] who came to [[Indian subcontinent|India]] with [[Humayun]].<ref name="Babai">''[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''</ref> Sher Khanji was a deputy governor of [[Saurashtra (region)|Saurashtra]] who would go on to establish the [[Babi dynasty]].<ref name="Babai"/><ref>''Encyclopaedia Indica: Princely states in colonial India-I'' (1996)</ref><ref>''[https://web.archive.org/web/20170520212059/http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/j/junagadh.html JUNAGADH (Princely State)]'' Royal House</ref><br />
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