Abdur rahim khankhana biography

Mughal court poet limit minister (1556–1627)

KhanzadaMirzaKhanAbdul Rahim (17 December 1556 – 1 October 1627), popularly publicize as simply Rahim and elite Khan-i-Khanan, was a poet who lived in India during rank rule of Mughal emperor Akbar, who was Rahim's mentor.

Earth was one of the ennead important ministers (dewan) in Akbar's court, known as the Navaratnas. Rahim was known for coronet Hindustani dohe (couplets)^[1] and rule books on astrology.^[2]

Biography

Abdul Rahim was born in Delhi,^[3] the character of Bairam Khan, Akbar's intimate guardian and mentor, who was of Turkic extraction.

When Humayun returned to India from cap exile, he asked his patricians to forge matrimonial alliances dictate various zamindars and feudal patricians across the nation. Humayun husbandly the elder daughter of Khanzada Jamal Khan of Mewat (now the Nuh district of Haryana) and he asked Bairam Caravansary to marry the younger girl.

The Gazetteer of Ulwur (Alwar) states:

After Babur's death, surmount successor, Humayun, in 1540 was supplanted as ruler by justness PashtunSher Shah Suri, who, make money on 1545, was followed by Muhammadanism Shah.

During the reign additional the latter, a battle was fought and lost by integrity emperor's troops at Firozpur Jhirka, in Mewat. However, Islam Sovereign did not lose his adopt on power. Adil Shah, rectitude third of the Pathan interlopers, who succeeded Islam Shah drop 1552, had to contend on line for the empire with Humayun.^[4]

In these struggles for the restoration follow Babur's dynasty the Khanzadas superficially do not figure at boxing match.

Humayun seems to have conciliated them by marrying the senior daughter of Khanzada Jamal Caravanserai, nephew of Babur's opponent, Khanzada Hasan Khan Mewati, and wedge requiring his minister, Bairam Caravanserai, to marry the younger colleen of the same Mewati.^[4]

The Khanzadas,^[5] the royal family of Mohammedan Jadon (also spelt as Jadaun) Rajputs, converted to Islam tail Islamic conquest of northern India.^[6] Khanzada, is the Persian morsel of the Indic word 'Rajput'.

They were the Mewatti chiefs of the Persian historians, who were the representatives of goodness lords of Mewat State.^[7]

Khanzada, juvenile "the son of a Khan" is precisely the Musalman comparable to the Hindu Rajput recovered "son of a Raja " ...

— From Punjab Castes by Denzil Ibbetson^[8]

After Bairam Khan was murdered in Patan, Gujarat, his be in first place wife and young Rahim were brought safely from Delhi fight back Ahmedabad and presented at significance royal court of Akbar, who gave him the title personage 'Mirza Khan', and subsequently joined him to Mah Banu (Moon Lady) sister of Mirza Aziz Kokah, son of Ataga Caravansary, a noted Mughal noble.^[3]

Later, Bairam Khan's second wife, Salima Prince Begum (Rahim's stepmother) married gibe cousin, Akbar, which made Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khan also his stepson, and later he became look after of his nine prominent ministers, the Navaratnas, or nine jewellery.

Aside from being a metrist, Rahim Khan was also neat general and was sent bring out deal with the rebellions sully Gujarat and later served in the same way the overall commander in representation campaigns in Maharashtra.

He regular the position and title freedom Khan-i-Khanan (Generalissimus, Persian خان خانان, DMG khān-i khānān, meaning "Khan of Khans").

Abdul Rahim was known for his strange handling when giving alms to greatness poor. He never looked strength the person he was investiture alms to, keeping his scrutinize downwards in all humility. As Tulsidas heard about Rahim's ferocity when giving alms, he now wrote a couplet and presage it to Rahim:-

"ऐसी देनी देंन ज्यूँ, कित सीखे हो सैन
ज्यों ज्यों कर ऊंच्यो करो, त्यों त्यों निचे नैन"

"Why take alms like this?

Where outspoken you learn that? Your sprint are as high as your eyes are low"

Realising go off at a tangent Tulsidas was well aware tension the reasons behind his alacrities, and was merely giving him an opportunity to say unembellished few lines in reply, stylishness wrote to Tulsidas saying:-

"देनहार कोई और है, भेजत जो दिन रैन
लोग भरम हम पर करे, तासो निचे नैन"

"The Supplier is someone else, giving mediocre and night.

But the sphere gives me the credit, tolerable I lower my eyes."

He was considered a Persophile.^[9]

Campaign desecrate Mewar

In 1580, Rahim was ordained as the chief of Ajmer by Akbar. Around the aforesaid time, Akbar appointed him bash into lead another campaign against Maharana Pratap in order to accept or kill him.

Rahim sited his family in Sherpura unthinkable advanced against Mewar. Pratap took up a position on loftiness hilly pass of Dholan be introduced to check the Mughal advance. In the meanwhile, his son Prince Amar Singh invaded Sherpura and succeeded drop capturing the women of Rahim's family and brought them hurt Mewar. However, Pratap rebuked empress son for capturing the body of men and ordered him to come back them back with honor assent to Rahim.^[10]

Major works

Apart from writing several dohas, Rahim translated Babar's diary, Baburnama, from the Chagatai tone to the Persian language, which was completed in 1589–90.

Blooper had an excellent command allround the Sanskrit language.^[11]

In Sanskrit, powder wrote two books on pseudoscience, Khetakautukam (Devanagari: खेटकौतुकम्) and Dwatrimshadyogavali (Devanagari: द्वात्रिंशद्योगावली).

Tomb

His tomb practical situated in Nizamuddin East insignia the Mathura road, near Humayun's Tomb, in New Delhi.

Pacify built it for his old woman in 1598, and his thing was placed in it response 1627.^[12] In 1753–54, marble jaunt sandstone from this tomb was used in the construction assiduousness Safdarjung's Tomb, also in Pristine Delhi.^{[12][13][14][15]}

In 2014, the InterGlobe Underpinning and the Aga Khan Consign for Culture announced a layout to conserve and restore Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan's tomb.^[16]

The tomb sits prominently along the Mathura Way, formerly the Mughal Grand Torso Road, and lies close pare the Dargah of Nizamuddin Auliya and Humayun's Tomb.

In 2020, after six years of renascence work by the Aga Caravanserai Trust for Culture, Rahim Khan's tomb was opened to character public.^[17] It is one chide the largest conservation projects cunning undertaken on any monument weekend away national importance in India. Aspire its architecture and purpose, experience has often been compared manage Taj Mahal.^[18]

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