Badlishah of Kedah

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Sultan Sir Badlishah ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah (Jawi: سلطان سر بدلي شاه ابن المرحوم سلطان عبد الحميد حليم شاه; 17 March 1894 – 13 July 1958) was the 27th Sultan of Kedah and reigned from 1943 to 1958. He ascended to the throne upon the death of his father, Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim. He was the elder half brother of the first Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman. Sultan Badlishah also served as regent of Kedah between 1937 and 1943. In 1943, he was deposed by the Imperial Japanese Army, but was reinstated in 1945 following their surrender and the end of the Japanese occupation of Malaya.

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