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Ali Ibrahim Khan
Ali Ibrahim Khan, also known as Khalil Azimabadi (1714–1793), was an 18th-century Indian statesman and literary figure from Patna, then known as Azimabad. He was part of a group of Shia elites in the court of Alivardi Khan and he later worked for the British East India Company. He is well known for the literary work of his later career which includes the Persian biographies of Indian writers of his generation. He used his connections to install many of his own family in respectable positions and initiated the careers of many landholders in Bihar and Varanasi. He is credited with building the Dooly Ghat mosque in Patna. Early life Ali Ibrahim Khan was born in Patna in a highly respected Shia Muslim family. His uncle was a jurist and a judge and his grandfather was a scholar. According to Joseph Héliodore Garcin de Tassy, his father's name was Abdul Hakim. When he was just ten years old, he was taken from Patna to Murshidabad in 1740 together with other skilled administrators b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patna
Patna (; , ISO 15919, ISO: ''Paṭanā''), historically known as Pataliputra, Pāṭaliputra, is the List of state and union territory capitals in India, capital and largest city of the state of Bihar in India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Patna had a population of 2.35 million, making it the List of cities in India by population, 19th largest city in India. Covering and over 2.5 million people, its urban agglomeration is the List of million-plus urban agglomerations in India, 18th largest in India. Patna also serves as the seat of Patna High Court. The Buddhist, Hindu and Jain pilgrimage centres of Vaishali district, Vaishali, Rajgir, Nalanda, Bodh Gaya and Pawapuri are nearby and Patna City is a sacred city for Sikhs as the tenth 10th Sikh Guru, Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh was born here. The modern city of Patna is mainly on the southern bank of the river Ganges. The city also straddles the rivers Son River, Son, Gandak and Punpun River, Punpun. The city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mir Qasim
Mir Qasim () was the Nawab of Bengal from 1760 to 1763. He was installed as Nawab with the support of the British East India Company, replacing Mir Jafar, his father-in-law, who had himself been supported earlier by the East India Company after his role in winning the Battle of Plassey for the British. However, Mir Jafar eventually ran into disputes with the East India Company and attempted to form an alliance with the Dutch East India Company instead. The British eventually defeated the Dutch at Chinsura and overthrew Mir Jafar, replacing him with Mir Qasim. Qasim too later fell out with the British and fought against them at Buxar. His defeat has been suggested as a key reason in the British becoming the dominant power in large parts of North and East India. Early life and family Mir Syed Qasim was the son of Mir Muhammad Razi Khan, and claimed descent from Ali al-Ridha. His paternal grandfather, Sayyid Husayn Ridhwi, entered the Mughal Empire during the reign of Aurangzeb, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Patna
This is a list of notable residents of the Indian city of Patna (formerly Pataliputra), Bihar. Historical * Aryabhata, mathematician-astronomer * Ashoka, Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty * Shad Azimabadi, 18th- and 19th-century poet * Chanakya, teacher, philosopher, and royal advisor * Ali Ibrahim Khan, 18th-century statesmen and poet * Dean Mahomed (1759–1851), British Indian traveller, soldier, surgeon, and entrepreneur * Chandragupta Maurya, founder of the Mauryan Empire * Samudragupta, third ruler of the Gupta Dynasty * Bhai Jiwan Singh, Sikh General and friend of Guru Gobind Singh * Guru Gobind Singh, tenth of the ten Sikh Gurus * Moggaliputta-Tissa, Buddhist monk and scholar * Sheikh Zainuddin, 18th-century painter Nationalists and independence activists * Syed Abuzar Bukhari, prominent figure of the freedom movement of undivided India; Pakistani Muslim scholar, orator, poet, writer, former president of Majlis-e Ahrar-e Islam * Bindeshwari Dubey, freedom fighter and f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Shia Muslims
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1793 Deaths
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1714 Births
Events January–March * January 21 – After being tricked into deserting a battle against India's Mughal Empire by the rebel Sayyid brothers, Prince Azz-ud-din Mirza is blinded on orders of the Emperor Farrukhsiyar as punishment. * February 7 – The Siege of Tönning (a fortress of the Swedish Empire and now located in Germany in the state of Schleswig-Holstein) ends after almost a year, as Danish forces force the surrender of the remaining 1,600 defenders. The fortress is then leveled by the Danes. * February 28 – (February 17 old style) Russia's Tsar Peter the Great issues a decree requiring compulsory education in mathematics for children of government officials and nobility, applying to children between the ages of 10 and 15 years old. * March 2 – (February 19 old style) The Battle of Storkyro is fought between troops of the Swedish Empire and the Russian Empire, near what is now the village of Napue in Finland. The outnumbered Swedish forces, under the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urdu
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Tezkire
''Tezkire'' (), from Arabic '' tadhkirah'' meaning "something that causes one to remember" or "memorandum",Kiliç, Filiz. (2007). “The Tezkires of Poets: Indispendable [sicSources in Our Literature History” translated from Turkish to English by the website of publication. ''Türkiye Arastirmalari Literatür Dergisi'' (''TALID'') ''5''(10): 564 (abstract; entire essay is 543-564), talid.org. Accessed May 5, 2023. is a form of bibliographical dictionary or bibliographical compendium which flourished in the 16th-century Ottoman Empire. The most widely known are the ''tezkires'' of poets, but the books also focused on the works of government officials and artists in general. First seen in early Arab literature before the 10th century, they then made their way into Persian literature and later Ottoman literature. One of the most famous Persian ''tezkires'' is the Tazkirat al-Awliya of Fariduddin Attar. The most important ''tezkire'' in Chagatai-Turkic is ''Majolis un-Nafois'' by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to Indian Ocean trade, trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South Asia and Southeast Asia), and later with East Asia. The company gained Company rule in India, control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent and British Hong Kong, Hong Kong. At its peak, the company was the largest corporation in the world by various measures and had its own armed forces in the form of the company's three presidency armies, totalling about 260,000 soldiers, twice the size of the British Army at certain times. Originally Chartered company, chartered as the "Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East-Indies," the company rose to account for half of the world's trade during the mid-1700s and early 1800s, particularly in basic commodities including cotton, silk, indigo dye, sugar, salt, spices, Potass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murshidabad
Murshidabad (), is a town in the Indian States and territories of India, state of West Bengal. This town is the headquarters of Lalbag subdivision of Murshidabad district. It is located on the eastern bank of the Hooghly river, Bhagirathi River. During the 18th century, Murshidabad was a prosperous and cosmopolitan town. Murshidabad was the capital of the Bengal Subah for seventy years. This town was the home of wealthy banking and merchant families from different parts of the Indian subcontinent and wider Eurasia. European companies, including the British East India Company, the French Indies Company, French East India Company, the Dutch East India Company and the Danish East India Company, conducted business and operated factories around the city. The town was also a centre of art and culture. The city's decline began with the defeat of the last independent Nawab of Bengal Siraj-ud-Daulah at the Battle of Plassey in 1757. The Nawab was demoted to the status of a zamindar kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azimabad
Azimabad (, ) was the name of modern-day Patna during the eighteenth century, prior to the British Raj. Today, Patna is the capital of Bihar, a state in North India. In ancient times, Patna was known as Pataliputra. This was the capital of the Maurya and Gupta Empires. Medieval India marked Pataliputra's invasion of Muslim Pashtun Bakhtiyar Khilji and other Muslim rulers. This event is arguably seen by modern historians and scholars as a milestone in the decline of Buddhism in India. Long before Pataliputra was conquered, however, most of the ancient city was abandoned in the seventh century of the Common Era but revived more than 800 years later during the rule of Pashtun emperor Sher Shah Suri as Patna. Sher Shah Suri had moved his capital from Bihar Sharif to Pataliputra. Not long after Sher Shah Suri's death in 1545, Patna and Bihar fell to the Mughals. The name Pataliputra continued to be used, however. In 1703, Prince Azim-us-Shan, the grandson of Mughal Emperor Aurang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Héliodore Garcin De Tassy
Joseph Héliodore Sagesse Vertu Garcin de Tassy (25 January 1794, Marseille – 2 September 1878) was a French orientalist. Life Garcin de Tassy was born in 1794 in Marseille to a family of merchants. He started learning Arabic at the age of 20 after meeting his father's business partners from Egypt. He left for Paris in 1817 where he studied oriental languages under Silvestre de Sacy and was awarded professorship for Indology at the ''School for Living Oriental Languages'', that was founded for him. In 1838 he was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. and was one of the founders and later president of the ''Société Asiatique''. Garcin first received prominence through general works on Islam and translations from the Arabic, namely ''L'Islamisme d'aprés le Coran'' (3. Ed., Par. 1874), ''La poésie philosophique et religieuse chez les Persans'' (4. Ed. 1864, 3 Vols.) and the ''Allégories, récits poétiques etc.'' (2. Ed. 1877). Later, he devoted himself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
