Masum Khan
{{Short description|Zamindar of Bengal}}
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{{infobox person
|name=Masum Khan
|native_name=মাসুম খাঁ
|birth_date=1604Banglapedia link mentions he was 7 in 1611.
|birth_place=Bengal
|death_date=
|father = Musa Khan
|relatives = Isa Khan (grandfather)
Syeda Momena Khatun (great grandmother)
Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah (great-great grandfather)
}}
Masum Khan ({{langx|bn|মাসুম খাঁ}}; b. 1604) was a zamindar of Bengal. He was the eldest son and successor of Baro-Bhuiyan leader Musa Khan and the grandson of Isa Khan.{{cite Banglapedia|article=Masum Khan|author=Khan, Muazzam Hossain}}
Early life and family
Masum Khan was born into a Bengali Muslim Bais Rajput family from Sarail. His father, Musa Khan, and grandfather, Isa Khan, were both prominent leaders of the Baro-Bhuiyan confederacy. His great great grandfather, Bhagirath, migrated from Ayodhya to serve as the Dewan of the Sultan of Bengal Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah. Khan's great grandfather,{{citation needed|date=June 2024}} Kalidas Gazdani, converted to Islam under the guidance of Ibrahim Danishmand and took the name Sulaiman Khan.{{cite book|last=Hussainy Chisti|first=Syed Hasan Imam|editor=Sharif Uddin Ahmed|chapter=Arabic and Persian in Sylhet|title=Sylhet: History and Heritage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M_BtAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Bangladesh Itihas Samiti|isbn=978-984-31-0478-6|page=600}} Sulaiman married the Sultan's daughter Syeda Momena Khatun, Masum Khan's great grandmother, and received the Zamindari of Sarail.{{cite Banglapedia|author=AA Sheikh Md Asrarul Hoque Chisti|article=Isa Khan}}
Rule
Following the death of his father in April 1623, the Subahdar of Mughal Bengal Ibrahim Khan Fath-i-Jang recognised Masum Khan as the successor of Musa's estate.
Masum Khan served in the Siege of Hooghly in 1632 by the Mughal army against the Portuguese. Again he took part in the Mughal invasion of Assam in 1636.
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Category:17th-century Bengalis
Category:17th-century Indian Muslims
Category:People from Sarail Upazila
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