Lutfullah Tabrizi

Mirza Lutfullah was born in 1684, in the city of Surat in Gujarat. His father, Haji Shukrullah, was a Persian from the Safavid city of Tabriz who had migrated to Surat. Lutfullah studied under Aqa Habibullah Isfahani.{{cite book |last=Kia |first=Mana |year=2020 |title=Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism |publisher=Stanford University Press |page=141 |isbn=978-1-5036-1068-2}}

After his father's death, Lutfullah left Surat for Bengal as a merchant where he gained popularity in the court of the Nawab of Bengal. Shuja-ud-Din Muhammad Khan married off his daughter,{{cite book |last=Kia |first=Mana |year=2020 |title=Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism |publisher=Stanford University Press |page=249 |isbn=978-1-5036-1068-2}} Durdana Begum Sahiba, to Lutfullah. The couple had one son, Mirza Muhammad Yahya Khan Bahadur, and two daughters. Bangali Begum Sahiba, also known as Mehman Begum, was their eldest daughter, and their youngest daughter was the wife of Ala ud-din Muhammad Khan.{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}

In 1728, Lutfullah was appointed by his father-in-law Nawab Shuja-ud-Din Muhammad Khan as the regional governor at Jahangirnagar.{{cite Banglapedia|article=Naib Nazim|author=KM Karim}} Along with this appointment, Lutfullah was given the title of Murshid Quli Khan II.{{cite book|title=A history of Murshidabad District (Bengal): with biographies of some of its noted families|chapter=Biographies|author=Tull Walsh, John Henry|year=1902|page=135|publisher=Jarrold}} During his tenure, Murshid Quli Khan II had shops constructed in Chowk Bazaar.{{cite journal |author=Abdul Karim |author-link=Abdul Karim (historian) |year=1962 |title=An Account of Dacca, dated 1800 |journal=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Pakistan |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=300–301}} As the Nizamat of Jahangirnagar covered all of eastern Bengal, Lutfullah's responsibility also spread outside of Dhaka. He is credited for the complete Mughal annexation of Lower Tippera, which was formally only nominally under Mughal rule.

In 1734, Lutfullah was transferred to govern the Nizamat of Orissa.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}} The Battle of Giria near Murshidabad on 10 April 1740 meant the ascension of Alivardi Khan as the new Nawab of Bengal.{{Cite book |last=Nitish K. Sengupta |year=2011 |title=Land of Two Rivers: A History of Bengal from the Mahabharata to Mujib |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kVSh_TyJ0YoC&pg=PA157 |publisher=Penguin Books India |page=157 |isbn=978-0-14-341678-4}} Lutfullah rejected the authority of Alivardi. Along with his son-in-law Mirza Agha Baqer, Lutfullah proceeded from Cuttack in Orissa towards Balasore and towards December 1740, established a camp at Phulwari Sharif in Bihar. Lutfullah was severely wounded in battle and was defeated on 3 March 1741, later fleeing to Machilipatnam in South India with Baqer. Alivardi later appointed Syed Ahmad Khan as the Naib Nazim of Orissa.{{cite Banglapedia|article=Aga Muhammad Bakar, Mirza|author=Khan, Muazzam Hussain}}{{failed verification|date=March 2022}}

In the Deccan, Lutfullah served the Nizam of Hyderabad and spent the rest of his life. In the literary sphere, his magnum opus is Makhmur.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}

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• History of Dhaka
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