->JPxG: Adding WikiProject-based category (using WikiProjects listed on talk page) as parameter to {{expert needed}} template, to clear out the completely unhelpful Category:Articles needing unspecified expert attention.

2021-03-13T21:40:22Z

Adding WikiProject-based category (using WikiProjects listed on talk page) as parameter to {{expert needed}} template, to clear out the completely unhelpful Category:Articles needing unspecified expert attention.

New page

{{Multiple issues|
{{Expert needed|1=India|date=July 2020}}
{{One source|date=July 2020}}
}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}}
{{Use Indian English|date=April 2017}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Shah Nawaz Khan
| embed =
| honorific_prefix = Khan, Samsam ud-Daula
| native_name = صمصام الدولہ شاہنواز خان
| native_name_lang =
| birth_name = Abd ur-Razzaq Hussain
| birth_date = 28 February 1700
| birth_place = [[Lahore]], [[Mughal Empire]], now [[Punjab, Pakistan]]
| death_date = 11 May 1758 (aged 58)
| death_place = [[Aurangabad, Maharashtra]], [[Nizam of Hyderabad]], now [[India]]
| resting_place = [[Aurangabad, Maharashtra]], now [[India]]
| occupation = [[Historian]], Courtier, Wazir
| language = [[Persian language]]
| nationality = [[India]]n
| subject = [[History of India]]
| notableworks = [[Ma'asir al-umara]]
| relatives = Amir Kamal ud-Din Hussain (grandfather)
| years_active = 1740–1758
}}

'''Samdam ud Daula Shah Nawaz Khan''' (28 February 1700 – 11 May 1758<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Mawrakhin-i-Hind|last=Qadri|first=Shams-Ullah|publisher=Matbai-i-Nizam|year=1932|location=Hyderabad Deccan|pages=75}}</ref>), a courtier of [[Qamar-ud-din Khan, Asif Jah I]] and historian. He compiled the history [[Ma'asir al-umara]].

==Shah Nawaz Khan==
Shah Nawaz Khan Shams ud Daula was born at [[Lahore]] on 28 February 1700, and was originally called 'Abdur Razzak al Husain. Early in life, he went to [[Aurangabad Maharashtra|Aurangbad]] where most of his relations resided.

===Professional life===
He was appointed diwan of [[Berar Subah|Berar]] by '[[Asaf Jah]]; but subsequently had to retire in disgrace into private life for having favoured the revolt of [[Nasir Jang Mir Ahmad|Nasir Jang]]. After passing five years in seclusion, 'Asaf Jah took him again into favour, and in 1747 reinstated him in the diwani of Berar. He enjoyed the highest honors under Nasir Jang, and became the [[List of prime ministers of Hyderabad State|chief minister]] under [[Asaf ad-Dawlah Mir Ali Salabat Jang|Sulabat Jang]]. Shah Nawaz played a conspicuous part in the struggles for supremacy between the English and the French; and was assassinated at [[Aurangabad Maharashtra|Aurangbad]] on 11 May 1758.<ref name=":0" />

===Works===
The father son duo of '''Shah Nawaz Khan''' and '''Abdul Hai Khan''' composed the [[Ma'asir al-umara|Ma-'asiru-l Umra]], a biographical dictionary of the illustrious men who flourished in Hindostan and the Dakhan from the time of Akbar to H. 1155. He was given the title of '''Shams ud Daula''' by [[Asaf Jah]].
They resided in the city of [[Aurangabad Maharashtra|Aurangbad]]. Shah Nawaz Khan was a friend of the great poet [[Azad Bilgrami|Gholam Ali Azad Bilgrami]]. It was during this period of retirement that Shah Nawaz composed the [[Ma'asir al-umara|Ma-'asiru-l Umra]], a biographical dictionary of the illustrious men who flourished in [[Hindustan]] and the [[Deccan Plateau|Dakhan]] from the time of [[Akbar]] to AH 1155.

==Shams ud Daula Samsam Jang==
Samsam ud Daula or Abdul Hai Khan, the son of Shah Nawaz Khan, was born in 1729, and was elevated to the rank of " Khan" in 1748 by [[Nasir Jang Mir Ahmad|Nasir Jang]], who also bestowed on him the diwani of [[Berar Subah|Berar]]. [[Asaf ad-Dawlah Mir Ali Salabat Jang|Sulabat Jung]] made him commandant of [[Daulatabad, Maharashtra|Daulatabad]]; but after the murder of his father Shah Nawaz Khan in 1757, Abdul Hai Khan was imprisoned at [[Golkonda]], till released in 1759 by [[Ali Khan Asaf Jah II|Nizam 'Ali Khan]], who treated him with marked distinction, and reinstated him in his paternal title of Shams ud Daula Samsam Jang. 'Abdul Hai Khan's title at first was Shams ud Daula Dilawar Jang, but he was called Shams ul Mulk, and his poetical name was " Sarim."

Works

He completed his father's manuscripts which had been collected and published by [[Azad Bilgrami|Mir Gholam Ali]], and gave them to the world in their present form in 1779.

==See also==
*[[Ma'asir al-umara]]
*[[Azad Bilgrami]]

==External links==
The full Persian text was published by Asiatic Society of Bengal in the late nineteenth century, and is now available in three pdfs.
*[https://archive.org/details/MaasirAl-umaraOfShahnavazKhanAurangabadiVol.1Persian Volume 1]
*[https://archive.org/details/MaasirAl-umaraOfShahnavazKhanAurangabadiVol.2Persian Volume 2]
*[https://archive.org/details/MaasirAl-umaraOfShahnavazKhanAurangabadiVol.3Persian Volume 3]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}
Gazetteer Of Aurangabad (1884)

{{authority control}}
{{Hyderabad state}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shams Ud Daula Shah Nawaz Khan}}
[[Category:Indian Muslim historians of Islam]]
[[Category:Prime Ministers of Hyderabad State]]
[[Category:1700 births]]
[[Category:1758 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Lahore]]
[[Category:People from Aurangabad, Maharashtra]]
[[Category:18th-century Iranian people]]
[[Category:18th-century Indian historians]]

Samsam ud Daula Shah Nawaz Khan - Revision history

->JPxG: Adding WikiProject-based category (using WikiProjects listed on talk page) as parameter to {{expert needed}} template, to clear out the completely unhelpful Category:Articles needing unspecified expert attention.