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Murshid Quli Khan

مرشد قلي خان

c. 1660 CE · c. 1070 AH† – †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Deccan sultanates → Murshidabad

Draft card for Murshid Quli Khan, the diwan then quasi-independent nawab of Bengal who moved the capital to Murshidabad, d. 1727; the biographical entry is not yet checked on the page.

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Roles
Ruler
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
South Asia
Identifiers
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Life in time

16001625165016751700172517501775 c. c. c.
The Gunpowder Empires Contemporaries: Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi · Ahmad al-Munqur · al-Hajj Bashir · Amina bint al-Majlisi · Ibrahim ibn Sulayman ibn Ali

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Deccan sultanatesMurshidabad

Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph

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Born in
Deccan sultanates
Died in
Murshidabad
Buried in
Katra Masjid, Murshidabad

People and things also explored

Insha Allah Khan· Shuja-ud-Din Muhammad Khan· Siraj ud-Daulah· Katra Masjid, Murshidabad· Deccan sultanates· Murshidabad

Sources

  • al-Alam — al-Zirikli
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Insha Allah Khan

Syed Insha Allah Khan, known as Insha (c. 1752–1817), was an Indian poet and writer in Urdu, Persian and Hindi at the courts of Delhi and Lucknow. Born at Murshidabad, where his father the physician Mir Masha Allah Khan served the Nawab of Bengal, he shone at the court of Shah Alam II and then at Lucknow under Saadat Ali Khan. His Darya-e-Latafat (1807) is the first grammar of the Urdu language, his Rani Ketki Ki Kahani among the earliest Hindi prose, and his diwan holds ghazals and rekhti in several languages. He died at Lucknow in 1817.