Ahmad Majid
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{{infobox officeholder
| name = Ahmad Majid
| native_name = {{lang|bn|আহমদ মজিদ}}
{{Nastaliq|احمد مجید}}
| office = Faujdar of Sylhet Sarkar
| predecessor = Rafiullah Khan
| term = 1699
| successor = Abdullah Shirazi
| monarch = Aurangzeb
| governor = Azim-ush-Shan
}}
Ahmad Majid ({{langx|bn|আহমদ মজিদ|Ahmôd Môjid}}, {{langx|fa|{{Nastaliq|احمد مجید}}}}), was a Faujdar of Mughal Bengal's Sylhet Sarkar during the reign of Emperor Aurangzeb and governorship of Subahdar Azim-ush-Shan.{{cite book|language=bn|title=Sileter Mati, Sileter Manush|author=Fazlur Rahman|year=1991|publisher=M A Sattar|location=Sylhet District}}
Career
In 1699, Majid granted some land to Bharat Das Vaishnav of Dulali in the Dhakadakshin Pargana as devatra.{{cite book|title=The Proceedings Of The All Pakistan History Conference|volume=1|chapter=A chronology of Muslim faujdars of Sylhet|publisher=Pakistan Historical Society|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.66554/page/n297|location=Karachi|author=Syed Mohammad Ali|pages=280}} The land was later inherited by his son, Bhabananda Vaishnav.{{cite book|last=Choudhury|first=Achyut Charan|authorlink=Achyut Charan Choudhury|title=Srihatter Itibritta: Purbangsho|year=2000|orig-year=1910|publisher=Kotha|location=Kolkata|language=Bangla|url=https://bn.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE:%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%9F%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%83%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4_(%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%B6)_-_%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%9A%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A3_%E0%A6%9A%E0%A7%8C%E0%A6%A7%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%80_%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A7%E0%A6%BF.pdf/%E0%A7%AB%E0%A7%AE%E0%A7%AB|page=186}}
Several months later, Majid was succeeded as the Faujdar of Sylhet by Abdullah Shirazi.{{cite book|title=Hazrat Shah Jalal O Sileter Itihas|author=Syed Murtaza Ali|page=297|year=1965}}
See also
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