Shuja-ud-Din Muhammad Khan

شجاع الدين محمد خان

c. 1670 CE · c. 1081 AH† – †

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

Burhanpur → Murshidabad

Draft card for Shuja-ud-Din Muhammad Khan, the nawab of Bengal from 1727 to 1739 in Murshidabad's flourishing era; the dynastic handbook entry is not yet checked on the page.

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Ruler
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
South Asia
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Life in time

1625165016751700172517501775 c. c.
The Gunpowder Empires Contemporaries: Ahmad al-Munqur · al-Hajj Bashir · Ali ibn Muhammad al-Masakini · Liu Zhi · Mehmet Emin Tokadi

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BurhanpurMurshidabad

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Born in
Burhanpur
Died in
Murshidabad

People and things also explored

Insha Allah Khan· Mumtaz Mahal· Murshid Quli Khan· Shaykh Nizam Burhanpuri· Siraj ud-Daulah· Burhanpur· Murshidabad

Sources

  • Bosworth, The New Islamic Dynasties: a Chronological and Genealogical Manual (1996)
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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.