The Bakhshi (lit. 'Giver') in the Mughal Empire denoted a number of hierarchical government officials, typically involved with military administration...
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government of the Mughal Empire was a highly centralised bureaucracy, most of which was instituted during the rule of the third Mughal emperor, Akbar. The...
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decline of the Mughal Empire was a period in Indian history roughly between the early 18th century and mid 19th Century where the Mughal Empire, which once...
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The Army of the Mughal Empire was the force by which the Mughal emperors established their empire in the 16th century and expanded it to its greatest...
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The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia. At its peak, the empire stretched from the outer fringes of the Indus River Basin in the west...
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The Afghan-Mughal wars were a series of wars that took place during the 16th and 18th centuries between the Mughal Empire of India and different Afghan...
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Turco-Mongol ruling elite of the Mughal Empire after its invasion of the Indian subcontinent. Throughout the Mughal Empire, a number of ethnic Persian technocrats...
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in the Mughal Empire and the chief adviser to the emperor himself. The position acted as the de facto head of government of the Mughal Empire and had...
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Urdu-speaking people (section Mughal Empire)
service gentry, performing both clerical and military service for the Mughal empire and its successor states, provided cultural and literary patronage that...
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Zulfiqar Khan Nusrat Jung (category Grand viziers of the Mughal Empire)
leading noble and military general of the Mughal Empire. His father was Asad Khan, wazir (prime minister) to Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. During Aurangzeb's...
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Subahdar (redirect from Mughal Empire Subahdar)
provincial Diwan, Bakhshi, Faujdar, Kotwal, Qazi, Sadr, Waqa-i-Navis, Qanungo and Patwari. The Subahdars were normally appointed from among the Mughal princes or...
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Sayyid Salabat Khan Zulfiqar Jang (category 18th-century Mughal Empire people)
Sayyid Salabat Khan Zulfiqar Jang was a Mughal noble of Kashmiri descent and the Mir Bakhshi and Amir-ul-Umara of Ahmad Shah Bahadur. Originally named...
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Shah, Sultan of Golconda and Hyderabad. When the succession war of the Mughal Empire began in 1657, he joined his father-in-law Shah Shuja, and was appointed...
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June 1716), born Muhammad Ibrahim, was a high-ranking noble of the Mughal Empire during the reigns of Aurangzeb and Bahadur Shah. He is known for his...
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Chhatrasal (section Power Struggle against the Mughals)
from 1675 to 1731. He is well known for his resistance against the Mughal Empire. Chhatrasal was born at Kachar Kachnai in Tikamgarh, in a Rajput family...
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Shaikh Farid Bukhari (category 16th-century Mughal Empire people)
Murtaza Khan, was a leading Mughal noble of the 17th century. He served as mir bakhshi of the empire during the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar. During the...
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secure the Muslims place in India. He was then appointed as Mir Bakhshi of the Mughal emperor by Abdali. Later in his career he was known as Najib ad-Dawlah...
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Battle of the Malandari Pass (1586) (category History of the Mughal Empire)
District in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. The army of the Mughal Empire, led by Raja Birbal, was attacked by Yusufzai tribesmen, led by Malik...
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Hyderabad Subah (category Mughal subahs)
to other parts of the empire, stationing Mughal officers in their stead; Ruhullah Khan, chief bakhshi (paymaster) of the empire, was made temporary governor...
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The Subahdar was the head of the Mughal provincial administration. He was assisted by the provincial Diwan, Bakhshi, Faujdar, Kotwal, Qazi, Sadr, Waqa-i-Navis...
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Battle of Bandanwara (category Battles involving the Mughal Empire)
moved with his own army, along with 5-7 thousand-strong force sent by Mir Bakhshi Zulfikar Khan, to take control of the territory. News of invasion reached...
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Alamgir II (category Emperors of the Mughal Empire)
Alamgir II's incumbent Mir Bakhshi ("Paymaster") Najib-ul-Daula along with his lieutenants Qutub Shah and Aman Khan and a Mughal Army of 2,500 garrisoned...
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Jahandar Shah (category Emperors of the Mughal Empire)
funds. Unlike previous Mughal wars of succession, the outcome of this war was engineered by a noble, Zulfiqar Khan, the mir bakhshi and one of the most powerful...
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Battle of Haldighati (category Battles involving the Mughal Empire)
complement of Kachhwa Rajputs led by Jagannath, and Central Asian Mughals led by Bakhshi Ali Asaf Khan. A sizeable advance reserve led by Madho Singh Kachhwa...
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Siege of Ram Rauni (category 1740s in the Mughal Empire)
forces led by Jassa Singh Ahluwalia and the Mughal forces of Adina Beg, Dewan Kaura Mal, Mirza Aziz Khan and Bakhshi Nasir Ali Khan Jalandri. During the first...
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Khan Dowran VII (category 18th-century Mughal Empire people)
Khan-i-Dauran was the head of the Mughal army at the Battle of Karnal. During Nader Shah's invasion of the Mughal Empire, Muhammad Shah sent out a request...
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Ahmad Shah Bahadur (category Emperors of the Mughal Empire)
Mir Bakhshi and Amir-ul-Umara, and Moin-ul-Mulk, the son of Qamaruddin Khan, as the governor of Punjab[citation needed] The main servant of the Mughal court...
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Sayyid brothers (category 18th-century Mughal Empire people)
Bakhshi, and finally, on receiving the rank of an imperial Mansabdar, attached himself to the eldest Prince Muazzam. During the reign of the Mughal Emperor...
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India. He is remembered for resisting the territorial expansion of the Mughal Empire in Marwar. Born on 16 July 1541, Chandrasen was the sixth son of Rao...
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Jahangir (category Emperors of the Mughal Empire)
gained increased power in the Mughal court. This included nobles especially like Shaykh Farid, Jahangir's trusted Mir Bakhshi, who held firmly the citadel...
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