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Siraj ud-Daulah

سراج الدولة

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

Murshidabad

Draft card for Siraj ud-Daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal defeated at Plassey, named from an open reference description (Wikidata); his entry in Hasan Ibrahim's Tarikh al-Islam is not yet checked on the page, so no dates are given.

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Roles
emir
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
South Asia
Identifiers
Wikidata

Life in time

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The Colonial Era · The Gunpowder Empires Contemporaries: Abbas al-Musawi al-Makki · Abd al-Ali Muhammad ibn Nizam al-Din al-Lucknawi · Abd al-Hamid I · Abd al-Samad al-Palimbani · Abdallah al-Shabrawi

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Murshidabad

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

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Born in
Murshidabad

People and things also explored

Insha Allah Khan· Murshid Quli Khan· Shuja-ud-Din Muhammad Khan· Murshidabad

Sources

  • Tarikh al-Islam — Hasan Ibrahim Hasan
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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.