The Legend of ‘Turki Lala’
Abdurrahman Peshawari (also known as Peshawarli Abdurrahman Bey or Abdurrahman Samdani) was born in 1886 in Peshawar, then the capital of British India’s North-West Frontier Province. His father, Ghulam Samdani, was a wealthy Kashmiri contractor who …