Ghulam Hussain Khan
{{Short description|18th-century Indian historian}}
{{not to be confused with|Ghulam Husain Salim}}
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| death_date = 1797/98 (aged 69-70)
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Ghulam Hussain Khan, also known as Ghulam Husain Khan Tabatabai (1727/28–1797/98) was an 18th-century Indian historian and scholar-administrator from Delhi who later settled in Azimabad (Patna).{{cite web |title=ḠOLĀM-ḤOSAYN KHAN ṬABĀṬABĀʾI |url=https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/golam-hosayn-khan-tabatabai |website=Encyclopaedia Iranica |publisher=BRILL}}{{cite book |last1=Greene |first1=Jack |title=Exclusionary Empire: English Liberty Overseas, 1600-1900 |date=2010 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j9zdBZ4PBugC&dq=Ghulam+Husain+Tabatabai+patna&pg=PA209}}{{cite book |last1=Yang |first1=Anand |title=Bazaar India: Markets, Society, and the Colonial State in Bihar |date=1999 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=9780520919969 |pages=52–53 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D5lQutvzAp4C&dq=Ghulam+Husain+Tabatabai+patna&pg=PA52}} He is the writer of the famous book Seir Mutaqherin ({{Script|ar|سیر المتاخرین}}; {{lit|Review of modern times}}), one of the notable contemporary historical accounts on the late Mughal Empire.
He is considered to be among a slew of Muslim nobles whose families had left Delhi and settled in Azimabad.{{cite web |title=Azimabad |url=https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/azimabad-patna-ancient-pataliputra-present-capital-of-bihar-state-in-northeast-india |website=Encyclopaedia Iranica |publisher=BRILL}}
Life
Ghulam Husain's ancestors were originally from Iraq. His father Hidayat Khan accompanied the Nawab of Bengal, Alivardi Khan to Azimabad where he was appointed subadar.{{cite book |title=India and Iran in the Long Durée |date=2021 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=9789004460638 |page=110 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=erscEAAAQBAJ&dq=Ghulam+Husain+Tabatabai+patna&pg=PA110}}
Ghulam Hussain Khan left Delhi after Nader Shah's Sack of Delhi and moved to the court of his cousin, Alivardi Khan, the Nawab of Bengal, in Murshidabad.Dalrymple, W. (2019),The Anarchy p80, London: Bloomsbury
Khan was also related to the next nawab, Siraj ud-Daulah, either through Siraj being Alivardi's grandsonDalrymple, W. (2019),The Anarchy p78, London: Bloomsbury or in another way.Dalrymple, W. (2019),The Anarchy p83, London: Bloomsbury
Charles W. J. Withers described him as a "high-born Bihari official" whose Persian father had served the Mughal Emperor and whose mother was related to Alivardi Khan."{{cite book |last1=Withers |first1=Charles |title=Geographies of the Book |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781317128984 |page=31 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=au4FDAAAQBAJ&dq=Ghulam+Husain+Tabatabai+patna&pg=PA31}}
References
External links
- The Siyar-ul-Mutakherin: a history of the Mahomedan power in India during the last century / by Mir Gholam Hussein-Khan; revised from the translation of Haji Mustefa, and collated with the Persian original, by John Briggs. (1832) https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009726806
- Banglapedia article (22 March 2015) on the Siyar-ul-Mutakhkherin: http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Siyar-ul-Mutakhkherin
- Links to the original Persian books. Volume 1: https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-rbsc-ms-bw-ivanow-0010-17594 and Volume 2: https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-rbsc-ms-bw-ivanow-0011-17595
Category:18th-century Indian Muslims
Category:18th-century Indian historians