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Safdar Jang

Asaf Jah Jamat-ul-Mulk Shuja-ud-Daula Nawab Abul Mansur Khan Bahadur Safdar Jang Sipah Salar (c. 1708 – 5 October 1754), better known as Safdar Jang , was the second Nawab of Ki...

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Asaf Jah Jamat-ul-Mulk Shuja-ud-Daula Nawab Abul Mansur Khan Bahadur Safdar Jang Sipah Salar (c. 1708 – 5 October 1754), better known as Safdar Jang, was the second Nawab of Kingdom of Awadh succeeding Saadat Khan (his maternal uncle and father-in-law) in the year 1739 and Mughal Grand Vizier from 1748 to 1753. All future Nawabs of Awadh were patriarchal descendants of Safdar Jang. He was a major political figure at the imperial Mughal court during its declining years.

Biography

He was a descendant of Qara Yusuf of the Qara Qoyunlu confederation. In 1735, he was given the rank of sipahsalar. In 1739, he succeeded his father-in-law and maternal uncle, Burhan-ul-Mulk Saadat Khan to the throne of Awadh/Oudh and ruled from 19 March 1739 to 5 October 1754. The Mughal EmperorMuhammad Shah gave him the title of "Safdar Jang".[1]

Safdar Jang was an able administrator. He was not only effective in keeping control of Awadh, but also managed to render valuable assistance to the weakened Emperor Muhammad Shah. He was soon given governorship of Kashmir as well, and became a central figure at the Delhi court. During the later years of Muhammad Shah, he gained complete control of administration over the whole Mughal Empire. When Ahmad Shah Bahadur ascended the throne at Delhi in 1748, Safdar Jang became his Wazir-ul-Malik-i-Hindustan or Prime Minister of Hindustan. He was also made the governor of Ajmer and became the "Faujdar" of Narnaul. In 1748, Javed Khan, a rival invited the new Nizam of HyderabadNasir Jung, to join an alliance against the wazir. Safdar Jang requested Maratha support against Nasir Jung. Balaji Baji Rao dispatched Scindia and Holkar chiefs to prevent Nasir Jung's forces from reaching Delhi, and thus, saved Safdar Jang.[2] In 1752, the Rohillas of the Doab region rebelled against the Mughal emperor. Safdar Jang crushed the rebellion with Maratha support. However, court politics eventually overtook him and he was dismissed in 1753.[1] He returned to Oudh in December 1753 and selected Faizabad as his military headquarters and administrative capital. He intervened on behalf of Madho Singh of Jaipur in his conflict with Marathas and convinced the Marathas to leave with an apology and some compensation. He died in October 1754 at the age of 46 years in Sultanpur near Faizabad.[1]

Safdar Jang had maintained a contingent of 20,000 "Mughaliya" cavalry, most of whom were Hindustani Muslims, many who were chiefly from the Jadibal district of Srinagar in Kashmir, who had imitated the Qizilbash in dress and spoke the Persian language.[3][4] The state also saw a large migration of Kashmiri Shi'as to the Shi'a kingdom of Awadh, both to escape persecution and to secure courtly patronage.[5] This was especially the case with men from the district of Jadibal in Kashmir, who were all Shias, who looked to Safdar Jang as the sword-arm of the Shi'as in India.

Tomb

La tumba de Safdar Jang en Delhi.

La tumba de Safdar Jang fue construida en 1754 y está situada en una calle ahora conocida como Safdar Jang Road , en Nueva Delhi . [ 6 ]

Otras estructuras modernas cercanas a la tumba también llevan su nombre hoy en día, como el aeropuerto Safdar Jang y el hospital Safdar Jang .

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Notas

Referencias

  1. 1 2 3 HISTORIA DE AWADH (Oudh), un estado principesco de la India por Hameed Akhtar Siddiqui
  2. ↑ GSChhabra (2005). Estudio avanzado de la historia de la India moderna (Volumen 1: 1707–1803) . Lotus Press. págs. 29–47 . ISBN  978-81-89093-06-8.
  3. ↑ Sarkar, Jadunath (1964). La caída del Imperio mogol, vol. 1. digitallibraryindia; JaiGyan. pág. 254. 
  4. ↑ Srivastava, Ashirbadi Lal (1933). textosLos dos primeros nawabs de Oudh (un estudio crítico basado en fuentes originales) aprobados para el grado de doctorado en la Universidad de Lucknow en 1932 .
  5. ↑ Hakim Sameer Hamdani (2022). El chiismo en Cachemira: una historia de la rivalidad y la reconciliación suní-chií . Bloomsbury. ISBN 9780755643967.
  6. ↑ "Jardín de la tumba de Safdar Jang" . Archivado del original el 27 de septiembre de 2007. Consultado el 28 de marzo de 2007 .
  • Indiacoins tiene un artículo sobre Safdar Jung aquí.
  • Tumba de Safdar Jung