Sadaq Khān (), also known as Mohammad Sadeq Khan (, ), was a
Faujdar of the
Mughal Bengal
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's
Sylhet Sarkar. He succeeded
Farhad Khan as faujdar in 1688.
Life
In 1678, Farhad Khan took a one year break from being the faujdar of Sylhet as he was appointed the task of being the faujdar of
Chittagong
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. During this time, Sadeq may have been the regent faujdar. It is said that Sadeq was ordered by Farhad to have built a mosque (which now remains incomplete) west of the former Sylhet Police lines.
In 1688, Sadeq also granted land to his citizens.
He gave land to Kashmishwar Chakrabarti, father of Ramchandra Chakrabarti, in Longla Pargana. Faujdar Enayatullah Khan was the next known faujdar after Sadeq.
An inscription on a certain
mazar (mausoleum)
A ''mazār'' (), also transliterated as mazaar, also known as ''marqad'' () or in the Maghreb as ''ḍarīḥ'' (), is a mausoleum or shrine in some places of the world, typically that of a saint or notable religious leader. Medieval Arabic ...
in the
dargah of Shah Jalal was found to have been built in 1689.
Syed Murtaza Ali is of the opinion that this is possibly the grave of Sadeq.
See also
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History of Sylhet
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Lutfullah Shirazi
References
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Rulers of Sylhet
Governors in Asia
17th-century Indian Muslims