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Asaf Khan I was a Tajik
Asaf Khan I was a Tajik nobleman
Nobility is a social class found in many societies that have an aristocracy. It is normally appointed by and ranked immediately below royalty. Nobility has often been an estate of the realm with many exclusive functions and characteristics. T ...
of the Mughal Empire
The Mughal Empire was an Early modern period, early modern empire in South Asia. At its peak, the empire stretched from the outer fringes of the Indus River Basin in the west, northern Afghanistan in the northwest, and Kashmir in the north, to ...
during the reign of Akbar
Akbar (Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar, – ), popularly known as Akbar the Great, was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605. Akbar succeeded his father, Humayun, under a regent, Bairam Khan, who helped the young emperor expa ...
. He was governor of Ilahabad Subah and participated in many Mughal military expeditions, leading the Mughal conquest of Garha in 1564 and serving in the Battle of Haldighati in 1576.
After personally attacking Garha and keeping the loot of war, including many precious gems and 800 war elephants, to himself, he rebelled fearing retribution by Akbar and joined many disaffected Uzbek noblemen in seeking independence from Mughal rule, fleeing to his subah on 17 September 1565. However, he soon submitted and was restored to his previous post in 1567.
Asaf Khan played a pivotal role in Mughal conquest of Chittor in 1568 led by Akbar himself. After the fort was sacked in February 1568, Akbar handed it to Asaf Khan and returned to Agra.
He probably died at Burhanpur aged 63 in the seventh year of Jahangir's reign (1611–12).{{Cite book, last=Jahangir, Emperor of Hindustan, 1569-1627, url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/993066506, title=The tūzuk-i-Jahāngīrī, or, Memoirs of Jahāngīr, year=2015 , translator1-last=Rogers, translator1-first=Alexander, editor1-last=Beveridge, editor1-first=Henry, isbn=978-81-7156-131-5, location=New Delhi, oclc=993066506
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