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 on the late Mughal Empire.
Ghulam Husain Khan Tabatabai | |
|---|---|
 Portrait of Ghulam Hussain Khan c.1750-1760 | |
| Born | 1727/28 Delhi |
| Died | 1797/98 (aged 69-70) Azimabad |
| Occupation | Historian, Subahdar, Noble |
| Language | Persian |
| Period | 18th century |
| Notable works | Seir Mutaqherin (سیر المتاخرین; lit. 'Review of Modern Times') |
| 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 Sack of Delhi 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]
External links
edit- 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, by John Briggs. (1832) https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009726806
- Banglapedia article (22 March 2015) on the Siyar-ul-Mutakhkherin: http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Siyar-ul-Mutakhkherin
- Links to the original Persian books. Volume 1: https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-rbsc-ms-bw-ivanow-0010-17594 and Volume 2: https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-rbsc-ms-bw-ivanow-0011-17595
References
edit- ^ "ḠOLĀM-ḤOSAYN KHAN ṬABĀṬABĀʾI". Encyclopaedia Iranica. BRILL.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Azimabad". Encyclopaedia Iranica. BRILL.
- ^ India and Iran in the Long Durée. BRILL. 2021. p. 110. ISBN 9789004460638.
- ^ Dalrymple, W. (2019),The Anarchy p80, London: Bloomsbury
- ^ Dalrymple, W. (2019),The Anarchy p78, London: Bloomsbury
- ^ Dalrymple, W. (2019),The Anarchy p83, London: Bloomsbury
- ^ Withers, Charles (2016). Geographies of the Book. Routledge. p. 31. ISBN 9781317128984.