Intizam-ud-Daulah

Intizam-ud-Daulah

Intizam-ud-Daulah

Grand Vizier during Mughal Emperor Ahmad Shah Bahadur

Intizam-ud-Daulah (died 29 November 1759) was a Grand Vizier during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Ahmad Shah Bahadur.[1]

He was the eldest son of Qamar-ud-Din Khan and older brother of Moin-ul-Mulk.[2] He was a pupil of Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan, one of the four pillars of Urdu poetry, and wrote verses in Persian and Urdu, and had perfect skill in this art.[3] During the wazirate of Safdar Jung he led the Turani opposition and played a significant role in his dismissal.[4] He was subsequently appointed to replace Safdar Jung as Grand Vizier in 1753. He was himself dismissed in 1754 following pressure from his nephew Imad-ul-Mulk and Malhar Rao Holkar.[5]

In 1759 he was murdered together with Alamgir II, at the instigation of Imad-ul-Mulk, and his body was thrown in a river.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    Dodwell, Henry Herbert (1928). The Cambridge History of India, Volume 5. CUP Archive.
  2. [2]
    Dodwell, Henry Herbert (1928). The Cambridge History of India, Volume 5. CUP Archive.
  3. [3]
    Muhammad Umar (1998). Muslim Society in Northern India During the Eighteenth Century. the University of Michigan. p. 462. ISBN 978-81-215-0830-8.
  4. [4]
    Gupta, Hari Ram (1979). History of the Sikhs: Sikh domination of the Mughal Empire, 1764-1803. University of Virginia.
  5. [5]
    Dodwell, Henry Herbert (1928). The Cambridge History of India, Volume 5. CUP Archive.
  6. [6]
    Mīr Taqī Mīr (1999). Zikr-i Mir: The Autobiography of the Eighteenth Century Mughal Poet, Mir Muhammad Taqi ʻMir', 1723-1810. Oxford University Press. ISBN 019564588X.


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