After an 1886 rebellion, many members of this ethnicity’s Ghiljī (“GILL-jee”) tribe were forcibly resettled. A ruler of this ethnicity briefly lost control of his state during a conflict in which Alexander Burnes was killed. A governor of this ethnicity was defeated at Nowshera by a ruler who united twelve misls into a single state. William Brydon was the only European who survived a retreat from the capital of a ruler of this ethnicity. A ruler of this ethnicity lost Peshawar to Ranjit Singh. Another ruler of this ethnicity overthrew Shah Shuja, ending the rule of the Sadozai branch of its Durrani clan. After a defeat by Britain at Kandahar, the Durand Line became the eastern border between British India and a state ruled by people of this ethnicity. For 10 points, name this ethnicity of the Barakzai rulers of Afghanistan. ■END■
ANSWER: Pashtuns [or Pakhtuns; or Pathans; or Paṣtūns; prompt on Afghans until “Afghanistan” is read]
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