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'''Qutb-ud-Din Khan Kokah''' (13 August 1569 – 20 May 1607) was the first [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] [[subahdar]] (provincial governor) of [[Bengal Subah]] (Mughal province of Bengal) during the reign of emperor [[Jahangir]]. He was appointed governor of Bengal on 2 September 1606 and died in office on 20 May 1607.<ref>Sarkar, Jadunath (1984). ''A History of Jaipur, c. 1503-1938'', New Delhi: Orient Longman, {{ISBN|81-250-0333-9}}, p.88</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Qutb-ud-Din Khan Kokah's original name was Shaikh Khubu. His father was a Mughal courtier in the court of emperor [[Akbar]] and his mother was daughter of [[Salim Chishti|Shaikh Salim Chishti]]. He was the ''Kokah'' (foster brother) of emperor [[Jahangir]]. The title of ''Qutb-ud-Din Khan'' was conferred upon him by Prince Salim (Jahangir) during his rebellion against his father Akbar. He was also appointed ''subahdar'' of [[Bihar]] by prince Salim during his rebellion.<ref name="ain">[[Heinrich Blochmann|Blochmann, H.]] (1927) [1873] ''The Ain-i-Akbari by Abul Fazl-i-Allami'', Vol.I, (ed.) D. C. Phillot, Calcutta: The Asiatic Society, pp. 556-7.</ref><br />
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==Subahdar of Bengal==<br />
Qutb-ud-Din Khan Kokah was appointed the governor of [[Bengal]] in 1606. Eight months later, he led the Mughal forces in a battle against [[Sher Afghan Quli Khan]], the ''[[Faujdar]]'' of [[Bardhaman]].<ref name=bpedia>{{cite book |last=Khan |first=Muazzam Hussain |year=2012 |chapter=Qutbuddin Khan Kokah |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Qutbuddin_Khan_Kokah |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref> Qutb-ud-Din Khan Kokah was defeated and killed in that battle.<br />
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==Progeny==<br />
Qutbuddin Khan Kokah had two sons. His first son, Saaduddin Khan received the title Saaduddin Siddiky and was granted by emperor Jahangir three [[jagir]]s called Amenabad, Talebabad and Chandrapratap in [[Gazipur]] district of [[Bangladesh]], formerly [[East Bengal]].<ref name="bpedia"/> This became the Bangladesh branch of his family. His descendants in Bangladesh include [[Chowdhury Kazemuddin Ahmed Siddiky]], the co-founder of the Assam Bengal Muslim League and co-founder of the [[University of Dhaka]], Justice Badruddin Ahmed Siddiky,<ref>{{cite book |last=Siddiky |first=Leila Rashida |year=2012 |chapter=Siddiky, Justice Badruddin Ahmad |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Siddiky,_Justice_Badruddin_Ahmad |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref> [[Chowdhury Tanbir Ahmed Siddiky]], the [[Commerce Minister]] of Bangladesh (1979–81) and Chowdhury Irad Ahmed Siddiky, a candidate for the mayor of [[Dhaka]] in 2015.<br />
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His second son Shaikh Ibrahim received the title of ''Kishwar Khan - aka Mohtashim Khan'' was appointed ''Qiladar'' (Commandant) of Rohtas fort<ref name="ain"/> (in present-day Bihar). Shaikh Ibrahim was married to Parwar Khanam daughter of [[Asaf Khan IV|Asaf Khan]] (the Grand Vizier of Mughal Empire 1628-41[2]) and sister of Mumtaz Mahal (Empress consort of the Mughal Emperor [[Shah Jahan]] and niece of empress [[Nur Jahan]], Jahangir's favorite wife). Shaikh Ibrahim aka Mohtashim Khan was given a jagir of 22 villages in [[Sheikhupur, Badaun]] and it is here he built a fort for his family, where his descendants still live to this day. This is the Indian branch of Koka's family, and their descendants include Nawab Abdul-Ghaffar Khan Bahadur, jageerdar of Sheikhupur,<ref>[[Sheikhupur, Badaun]]</ref>{{Circular reference|date=February 2018}} Begum Parveen Azad - a senior Indian Congress party politician [the 11th Lok Sabha (1996) Congress-party candidate from Baduan],<ref>Women and Politics in Asia: A Springboard for Democracy? Pg: 52</ref> other relatives include Mohammad Sultan Hyder 'Josh'- a prominent poet and short story writer of Urdu<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://fp.brecorder.com/2013/05/201305181187105/|title=Remembering Sultan Hyder Josh – Business Recorder}}</ref> and [[Begum Abida Ahmed]] wife of the 5th President of India [[Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed]].<br />
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==Emperor Jahangir's foster mother==<br />
Qutub uddin Khan Koka's mother, the daughter of Sheikh [[Salim Chishti]], was the foster mother of Emperor Jahangir. The emperor was deeply attached to his foster mother, as reflected by the following paragraph in the Jahangir's memoirs:<br />
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{{quote|text=In the month Ẕi-l-qa‘da the mother of Qutbu-d-dīn Khān Koka, who had given me her milk and was as a mother to me or even kinder than my own kind mother ... was committed to the mercy of God. I placed the feet of her corpse on my shoulders and carried her a part of the way (to her grave). Through extreme grief and sorrow I had no inclination for some days to eat, and I did not change my clothes. |author=Jahangir, Emperor of Hindustan |source=''[[Tuzk-e-Jahangiri|Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri]]''<ref>{{cite book |last=Jahangir, Emperor of Hindustan |author-link=Jahangir |date=1909 |editor-last=Beveridge |editor-first=Henry |editor-link=Henry Beveridge (1837–1929) |title=The Tuzuk-i-Janhangīrī or Memoirs of Jahāngīr |url=https://archive.org/stream/tuzukijahangirio00jahauoft#page/84/mode/1up |translator-last=Rogers |translator-first=Alexander |location=London |publisher=Royal Asiatic Society |pages=84–85}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[List of rulers of Bengal]]<br />
*[[History of Bengal]]<br />
*[[History of Bangladesh]]<br />
*[[History of India]]<br />
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