Ghulam Hussain Khan, also known as Ghulam Husain Khan Tabatabai (1727/28–1797/98) was an 18th-century Indian historian and scholar-administrator from Delhi who later settled in Azimabad (Patna).[1][2][3] He is the writer of the famous book Seir Mutaqherin (سیر المتاخرین; lit. 'Review of modern times'), one of the notable contemporary historical accounts of the late Mughal Empire.
Ghulam Husain Khan Tabatabai | |
|---|---|
 Portrait of Ghulam Hussain Khan c.1750-1760 | |
| Born | 1727/28 |
| Died | 1797/98 (aged 69-70) |
| Occupation | Historian, Subahdar, Noble |
| Language | Persian |
| Period | 18th century |
| Notable works | Seir Mutaqherin |
| Relatives | Alivardi Khan, Siraj-ud-Daulah |
He is considered to be among a slew of Muslim nobles whose families had left Delhi and settled in Azimabad.[4]
Life
editGhulam Husain's ancestors were originally from Iraq. His father Hidayat Khan accompanied the Nawab of Bengal, Alivardi Khan to Azimabad where he was appointed subadar.[5] Ghulam Hussain Khan left Delhi after Nader Shah's invasion of India and moved to the court of his cousin, Alivardi Khan, the Nawab of Bengal, in Murshidabad.[6] Khan was also related to the next nawab, Siraj ud-Daulah, either through Siraj being Alivardi's grandson[7] or in another way.[8]
Charles W. J. Withers described him as a "high-born Bihari official "whose Persian father had served the Mughal Emperor and whose mother was related to Alivardi Khan."[9]
Notes
edit- ↑ Naushahi, Arif (3 June 2013) [15 December 2001]. "ḠOLĀM-ḤOSAYN KHAN ṬABĀṬABĀʾI". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica. Vol. IX/1: Ethé, Carl Hermann–Excavations IV (Online ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation. pp. 60–61.
- ↑ Greene, Jack (2010). Exclusionary Empire: English Liberty Overseas, 1600-1900. Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ Yang, Anand (1999). Bazaar India: Markets, Society, and the Colonial State in Bihar. University of California Press. pp. 52–53. ISBN 9780520919969.
- ↑ Ahmad, Quyamuddin (12 October 2016) [15 December 1988]. "ʿAẒĪMĀBĀD". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica. Vol. III/3: Azerbaijan IV–Bačča(-ye) Saqqā (Online ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation.
- ↑ India and Iran in the Long Durée. Brill. 2021. p. 110. ISBN 9789004460638.
- ↑ Dalrymple 2019, p. 80.
- ↑ Dalrymple 2019, p. 78.
- ↑ Dalrymple 2019, p. 83.
- ↑ Withers, Charles (2016). Geographies of the Book. Routledge. p. 31. ISBN 9781317128984.
References
edit- Dalrymple, W. (2019). The Anarchy. London: Bloomsbury. p. 80.
Further reading
edit- Briggs, John (1832). The Siyar-ul-Mutakherin: a history of the Mahomedan power in India during the last century / by Mir Gholam Hussein-Khan; revised from the translation of Haji Mustefa, and collated with the Persian original. London: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland – via HathiTrust.
- "Siyar-ul-Mutakhkherin". Banglapedia. 22 March 2015. Archived from the original on 1 August 2015.