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{{Short description|Kashmiri noble of Mughals}}
{{Context|date=November 2022}}
'''Sayyid Salabat Khan Zulfiqar Jang''' was a Mughal noble of [[Kashmir|Kashmiri]] descent and the [[Mir Bakhshi]] and [[Amir-ul-Umara]] of [[Ahmad Shah Bahadur]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dohDAAAAYAAJ&q=sayyid+salabat+zulfiqar+jang |title=A Study of Eighteenth Century India: Political history, 1707-1761 |page=101 |author=Jagadish Narayan Sarkar |date=1976 |publisher=Saraswat Library |access-date=2023-03-19 |archive-date=2023-07-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230715022347/https://books.google.com/books?id=dohDAAAAYAAJ&q=sayyid+salabat+zulfiqar+jang |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Background==
Originally named Sayyid Hussain Khan, he was born as the son of Saadat Khan, Mir Muhammad Taqi Hussaini. Salabat Khan was the brother-in-law of the Mughal emperor [[Farrukhsiyar]]. They were ethnic [[Kashmiris]] belonging to the Marashi clan.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=US5gEAAAQBAJ&dq=marashi+clan+kashmir&pg=PA178 |title=History of Indian Nation : Medieval India |page=178 |date=2022 |publisher=K. K. Publications |access-date=2023-03-19 |archive-date=2023-07-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230715022344/https://books.google.com/books?id=US5gEAAAQBAJ&dq=marashi+clan+kashmir&pg=PA178 |url-status=live }}</ref> His father Saadat Khan was appointed governor of Kashmir on the accession of Farrukhsiyar in place of Inayatullah Khan Kashmiri,<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7WYyAQAAMAAJ&dq=sarbuland+uncle+of+emperor&pg=PA156 |title=Journal :Volume 67, Parts 1-2 |publisher=Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India) |date=1898 |page=156 |access-date=2023-03-19 |archive-date=2023-11-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231126022720/https://books.google.com/books?id=7WYyAQAAMAAJ&dq=sarbuland+uncle+of+emperor&pg=PA156 |url-status=live }}</ref> and was the late Mir-i-Atish, or general of the artillery.<ref>{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ak5oFjTys8MC&dq=sayyid+salabat+khan&pg=PA406 |page= 406 |author= William Irvine |title= Later Mughal |date= 1971 |access-date= 2023-04-02 |archive-date= 2023-11-26 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20231126022725/https://books.google.com/books?id=ak5oFjTys8MC&dq=sayyid+salabat+khan&pg=PA406 |url-status= live }}</ref> Although they attempted to support the Mughal Emperor [[Farrukhsiyar]], Salabat Khan's father was killed in a battle against the [[Sayyid brothers|Barah Sayyids]], while Salabat Khan escaped alive.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jjNuAAAAMAAJ&q=On+the+day+when+the+Barah+Saiyids+seized+Muhammad+Farrukh+Siyar,+Sadat+Khan |title=Encyclopaedia of Muslim Biography India, Pakistan, Bangladesh · Volume 5 |author=Nagendra Kr Singh |date=2001 |publisher=A.P.H. Publishing Corporation |page=10 |isbn=9788176482356 |access-date=2023-01-27 |archive-date=2023-11-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231126021542/https://books.google.com/books?id=jjNuAAAAMAAJ&q=On+the+day+when+the+Barah+Saiyids+seized+Muhammad+Farrukh+Siyar,+Sadat+Khan |url-status=live }}</ref> The later Mughal emperor used to refer to him as Nana Baba.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jjNuAAAAMAAJ&q=Dhulfiqar+Jang.+The+Emperor+used+to+call+him |page=10 |author=Nagendra Kr Singh |title=Encyclopaedia of Muslim Biography India, Pakistan, Bangladesh · Volume 5 |publisher=A.P.H. Publishing Corporation |date=2001 |isbn=9788176482356 |access-date=2023-03-19 |archive-date=2023-11-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231126021541/https://books.google.com/books?id=jjNuAAAAMAAJ&q=Dhulfiqar+Jang.+The+Emperor+used+to+call+him |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Biography==
[[File:The Emperor Ahmad Shah, equestrian, in the hunting field 1750 San Diego Museum of Art.jpg|thumb|The Emperor Ahmad Shah Bahadur]]
On the death of Asaf Jah in 1748, Salabat Khan was made the Mir Bakhshi in 29 June.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.google.com/search?q=+Zulfiqar+1739&tbm=bks |title=1739-1754. 3d ed. 1964, 1971 printing |page=213 |author=Jadunath Sarkar |date=1964 |publisher=Orient Longman}}</ref> He gained the governorship of Ajmer and Agra, with the Faujdari of Narnaul.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Jats, Their Role in the Mughal Empire |page=116 |author=Girish Chandra Dwivedi, Ishwari Prasad |date=1989 |publisher=Arnold Publishers |isbn=9788170311508 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AR5uAAAAMAAJ&q=salabat+bakhshi |access-date=2023-03-19 |archive-date=2023-11-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231126021540/https://books.google.com/books?id=AR5uAAAAMAAJ&q=salabat+bakhshi |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1740-1750 Salabat Khan ravaged [[Mewat]] and captured the fort of Neemrana. [[Battle of Sarai Sobhachand|The Jats clashed with the Mughal army at Saraj Sobhachand, inflicting losses on it.]]<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tosMAQAAMAAJ&q=Mir+Bakshi+Salabat+Jung+Khan+ravaged+Mewat+and+captured+the+fort+of+Neemrana+.+The+Jats+clashed+with+the+Mughal+army+at+Saraj+Sobhachand+,+inflicting+losses+on+it+.+In+1751+,+the+emperor+formally |title=A History of Rajasthan |page=732 |author=Rima Hooja |date=2006 |publisher=Rupa & Company |isbn=9788129108906 |access-date=2023-03-19 |archive-date=2023-11-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231126021541/https://books.google.com/books?id=tosMAQAAMAAJ&q=Mir+Bakshi+Salabat+Jung+Khan+ravaged+Mewat+and+captured+the+fort+of+Neemrana+.+The+Jats+clashed+with+the+Mughal+army+at+Saraj+Sobhachand+,+inflicting+losses+on+it+.+In+1751+,+the+emperor+formally |url-status=live }}</ref> In April 1750 he came out to invade [[Rajasthan|Rajputana]] with an army of 18,000 in order to support Bakht Singh against Ishwari Singh. But as neither side desired war, after little fighting the Mughal army left after Ishwari Singh promised a small tribute.<ref>{{cite book |title= Rajasthan Through the Ages |page=189 |author=R.K. Gupta, S.R. Bakshi |date=2008}}</ref> This unsuccessful campaign was the last attempt of the dying empire to assert its authority over Rajputana.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OH1DAAAAYAAJ&q=salabat+rajputana |title=A Comprehensive History of India: 1712-1772 |page=312 |author=Kallidaikurichi Aiyah Nilakanta Sastri |date=1978 |publisher=Orient Longmans |access-date=2023-03-19 |archive-date=2023-11-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231126022722/https://books.google.com/books?id=OH1DAAAAYAAJ&q=salabat+rajputana |url-status=live }}</ref>

In June 1751, Salabat khan insulted the emperor and his favourite [[Javed Khan Nawab Bahadur|Javid Khan]], the eunuch. This was reported by Javid Khan to the emperor, resulting in Salabat Khan's dismissal from the post of Mir Bakhshi and Amir-ul-Umara. Salabat Khan sold everything he had and lived in seclusion as a [[Dervish]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Fall Of The Mughal Empire,vol.1, 1739-1754 |author= Jadunath Sarkar |date=1932 |page=358}}</ref>

After the disbandment of the Indian Muslim cavalry regiment known as the Sin-Dagh,<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7QhuAAAAMAAJ&q=In+the+struggle+for+power+between+the+Emperor+Ahmad+Shah+(+1748-56+)+and+his+Wazir+.+Safdar+Jang+,+the+Hindustani+soldiers+of |title=Muslim Society in Northern India During the Eighteenth Century |page=22 |author=Muhammad Umar |date=1998 |publisher=the University of Michigan |isbn=9788121508308 |access-date=2023-01-27 |archive-date=2023-11-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231126021541/https://books.google.com/books?id=7QhuAAAAMAAJ&q=In+the+struggle+for+power+between+the+Emperor+Ahmad+Shah+(+1748-56+)+and+his+Wazir+.+Safdar+Jang+,+the+Hindustani+soldiers+of |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Ghazi ud-Din Khan Feroze Jung III|Imad-ul-Mulk]] attempted to call to his aide Salabat Khan, the ex-Bakhshi of the last emperor, who had been living in retirement and disgrace at Agra. But this last great noble of Farrukhsiyar and Muhammad Shah was now an aged phantom only, and he sunk into his grave on 6 June, 1757.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oHmRAAAAIAAJ&q=great+noble+of+the+age+of+Farrukhsiyar+and+Muhammad+Shah+was+now+an+aged+. |title=Fall of the Mughal Empire: 1754-71 |page=60 |author=Jadunath Sarkar |date=1971 |publisher=AMS Press |isbn=9780404055806 |access-date=2023-03-19 |archive-date=2023-11-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231126021541/https://books.google.com/books?id=oHmRAAAAIAAJ&q=great+noble+of+the+age+of+Farrukhsiyar+and+Muhammad+Shah+was+now+an+aged+. |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Family==
His son Ahmad Ali Khan was the Bakhshi of the Ahadis.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9x7jAAAAMAAJ&q=salabat+mir+bakhshi+father |title=Proceedings: Volume 29 |publisher=Indian History Congress |date=1968 |via=the University of Michigan |access-date=2023-03-19 |archive-date=2023-11-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231126022723/https://books.google.com/books?id=9x7jAAAAMAAJ&q=salabat+mir+bakhshi+father |url-status=live }}</ref>

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