Malwa Subah

{{Short description|Mughal imperial top-level province}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}}

{{Use Indian English|date=March 2017}}

{{Infobox former country

| native_name = Malwa Subah

| conventional_long_name = Malwa Province

| common_name = Malwa

| subdivision = Province

| area_label = 1601

| area_sq_mi = 114940{{Cite book |last=Habib |first=Irfan |url= |title=An Atlas of the Mughal Empire: Political and Economic Maps with Detained Notes, Bibliography and Index |date=1986 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-560379-8 |language=en|chapter=Table I: Area and ʽJama of the Mughal Empire, c. 1601|author-link=Irfan Habib|pp=xii–xiii}}

| nation = Mughals

| title_leader = Subahdar

| leader1 = Adham Khan Koka (first)

| year_leader1 = 1561

| capital = Ujjain

| coordinates = {{coord|23.177|75.786|display=title,inline}}

| today = India

| year_start = 1568

| year_end = 1737

| event_start =

| date_start =

| event_end = Battle of Bhopal

| date_end = 24 December

| event1 =

| date_event1 =

| life_span = 1568–1737

| era =

| event_pre = First conquered from Baz Bahadur

| date_pre = 29 March 1561

| event_post =

| date_post =

| flag_border = no

| flag_type =

| image_map = Malwa Subah.png

| image_map_caption = Malwa Subah depicted in map of Mughal Empire by Robert Wilkinson (1805)

| p1 = Malwa Sultanate

| s1 = Maratha Confederacy

| footnotes =

| leader2 = Jai Singh II (last)

| year_leader2 = 1732–1737

}}

The Malwa Subah ({{langx|fa|{{nq|صوبه ملوا}}}}) was one of the original twelve Subahs (provinces) of the Mughal Empire, including Gondwana, from 1568–1743. Its seat was Ujjain. It shared borders with the autonomous and tributary chiefdoms in the east, as well as Berar, Khandesh, Ahmadnagar, Gujarat, Ajmer, Agra, and Illahabad subahs.

History

Before becoming part of the Mughal Empire, the Malwa region was an independent sultanate. Its last ruler, Baz Bahadur, was defeated and its capital, Mandu, was conquered in 1562 by the Mughal Emperor Akbar’s army led by Abdullah Khan, the Uzbeg.Majumdar, R.C. (ed.) (2007). The Mughul Empire, Mumbai:Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, {{Listed Invalid ISBN|81-7276-407-1}}, p.113 He was appointed its first governor. In 1564 he was replaced by Qara Bahadur Khan. In 1568 it became a subah of Mughal empire.{{citation needed|date=August 2019}} One of its last governors was Sawai Jai Singh, who was the governor of the Subah for three times, from 1714-17, from 1729-30 and from 28 September 1732 to 4 August 1737.Sarkar, Jadunath (1984). A History of Jaipur, New Delhi:Orient Longman, {{ISBN|81-250-0333-9}}, pp.163-86 The Mughal hold on Malwa ended in 1743, when Peshwa Balaji Baji Rao obtained the formal grant of Naib-subahdari (deputy governorship) of Malwa.

Administrative divisions

Malwa Subah comprised 12 sarkars (districts): Ujjain, Chanderi, Raisen, Garha Mandla, Sarangpur, Bijagarh, Mandu, Handia, Nandurbar, Mandsaur, Gagron and Kotri-Parava. These sarkars are further divided into 301 parganas. The city of Ujjain was the capital of the subah.Abul Fazl-i-Allami (1949, reprint 1993). Ain-i-Akbari, Vol.II (English tr. by H.S. Jarrett, rev. by J.N. Sarkar), Calcutta: The Asiatic Society, pp.206-31

The sarkars (districts) and the parganas (tehsils) of Malwa Subah were:

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SarkarPargana
Ujjain10 parganas, Ujjain was the capital
Raisen32 parganas
Garha Mandla57 parganas
Chanderi61 parganas
Sarangpur24 parganas
Bijagarh29 parganas
Mandu16 parganas
Handia23 parganas
Nandurbar7 parganas
Mandsaur17 parganas
Gagron12 parganas
Kotri-Pirawa10 parganas

Mughal Subahdars (Governors) of Malwa (1561–1737)

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! Reign

colspan="4" align="center" | Conquest of Malwa from Baz Bahadur by the Mughal Emperor Akbar
Adham Khan Koka

|1561

Pir Muhammad Khan

|1561

colspan="4" align="center" | Malwa retaken by Baz Bahadur
Abdullah Khan Uzbek

|1562 – 1564

colspan="4" align="center" | Abdullah Khan Uzbek revolts; Malwa retaken by Emperor Akbar
Muhammad Quli Khan Barlas

|1564 – 1566

Shihab-ud-din Ahmed Khan

| 1566 – 1568

Qutb-ud-din Muhammad Khan

| 1568 – ?

Muzaffar Khan Turbati

|1573? – ?

Shihab-ud-din Ahmed Khan

| 1574? – 1577?

Qutb-ud-din Muhammad Khan

| 1577? – ?

Mirza Aziz Koka Khan-e-Azam

|1578? – 1590

Ahmed

| 1590

Sultan Murad Mirza

| 1590 – 1594

Mirza Shahrukh

|1594 – 1600

Sultan Daniyal Mirza

| 1600 – 1604

Pir Khan Lodhi Khan Jahan II

| 1627 – ?

Abdullah Khan Firoz Jang

| 1657 – ?

Mukhtiyar Khan

|1697 – 1701

Abu Nasr Khan Shaista Khan II

|1701 – 1704

Sultan Bidar Bakht

|1704 – 1706

Ikhlas Khan Khan-e-Aalam

|1706 – 1707

Nijabat Khan

|1707

Abdullah Khan

|1707

Sawai Mirza Raja Jai Singh II

|1714 – 1717

Mir Qamar-ud-din Khan, Nizam-ul-Mulk

|1719 – 1722

Girdhar Bahadur

|1722 – 1723

Azim-ullah Khan

|1723 – 1725

Girdhar Bahadur

|1725 – 1728

Sawai Mirza Raja Jai Singh II

|1729 – 1730

Muhammad Khan Bangash Ghazanfar Jang

|1730 – 1732

Sawai Mirza Raja Jai Singh II

|1732 – 1737

colspan="4" align="center" | Conquered by Marathas under Baji Rao I in 1737

See also

Notes