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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Muslim official of Sikh Empire (died 1846)}}<br />
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| name = Shaikh Ghulam Muhy-ud-Din<br />
| image = Sheikh Ghulam Mohiuddin. Watercolour by a Company artist, Punjab, ca.1865.jpg<br />
| office = [[Sikh Empire|Sikh]] governor of [[Jalandhar Doab|Doaba]]<br />
| 1blankname = [[Monarch]]<br />
| 1namedata = [[Ranjit Singh]]<br />
| term_start = 1834<br />
| term_end = 1841<br />
| predecessor = [[Desa Singh Majithia]]<br />
| successor = [[Shaikh Imam-ud-Din]]<br />
| term_start2 = 1841<br />
| term_end2 = 1846<br />
| predecessor2 = [[Mihan Singh]]<br />
| successor2 = Shaikh Imam-ud-Din<br />
| office1 = Sikh governor of Kashmir<br />
| birth_date = Unknown<br />
| birth_place = [[Hoshiarpur]], [[Jalandhar Doab]]<br />
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| death_date = 24 March 1846<br />
| death_place = [[Srinagar]], Sikh Empire<br />
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| caption = Sheikh Mohi-od-deen, Watercolour by a Company artist, Punjab, {{circa|1865}} <br />
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'''Shaikh Ghulam Muhy-ud-Din''' ({{died in|24 March 1846}}) was a Muslim official of [[Sikh Empire]] who served as the governor (''nazim'') [[Doaba|Jalandhar Doab]] during 1834–1841 and governor of [[Kashmir Valley|Kashmir]] during 1841–1846. He was succeeded by his son [[Shaikh Imam-ud-Din]] in both positions.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Muhy-ud-Din was born in a poor [[Punjabi Muslim]] family in [[Hoshiarpur]] to Shaikh Ujala, who worked as a ''[[munshi]]'' for Sardar Bhup Singh of [[Guler State]]. Starting his life as a [[Shoemaking|shoe-maker]], he took up service of [[Dewan|''diwan'']] [[Moti Ram]] and accompanied his son [[Diwan Kirpa Ram|Kirpa Ram]] when the latter was appointed governor of Kashmir in 1827. Kirpa Ram entrusted to him the deputy-governorship. After four years Kirpa Ram was recalled along with Muhy-ud-Din and both of them faced imprisonment and fines due to the allegations of mismanagement.{{sfn|Parmu|1977|pp=144–145, 210}}{{sfn|Sufi|1949|p=748}}<br />
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After a year Muhy-ud-Din regained his position and was sent with prince [[Sher Singh]] to Kashmir to rehabilitate the [[Kashmir shawl|shawl industry]], again serving as deputy-governor during 1832–1834. In 1834 he was appointed governor of Jalandhar Doab and remained so until 1841.{{sfn|Parmu|1977|pp=210–211}}{{Sfn|Sufi|1949|p=738}}<br />
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Muhy-ud-Din was appointed to Kashmir in 1841 after the previous governor, [[Mihan Singh|Mehan Singh]], was killed in a mutiny. In 1843 a Sikh army numbering 7000 men was defeated at Kahori by Sher Ahmad, the [[Bomba (tribe)|Bomba]] chief.{{sfn|Lawrence|1895|pages=200–201}} In the same year Muhy-ud-Din ended several discriminatory measures that had been imposed on the [[Kashmiri Muslims]] since the [[Battle of Shopian|Sikh conquest]] in 1819, including reopening the [[Jamia Masjid, Srinagar|Jamia Masjid]] for prayers after 25 years and permitting the calling of ''[[Adhan|Azan]]''.{{sfn|Sufi|1949|p=745}}{{sfn|Parmu|1977|p=211}}<br />
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In February 1845 he offered the [[Company rule in India|British]] to transfer his allegiance to them on the condition of keeping the possession of Kashmir. However, the British government was not interested in elevating any Muslim chief to power in the sensitive region.{{sfn|Din|2011|p=72}}{{sfn|Parmu|1977|pp=236–237}} Muhy-ud-Din unexpectedly died on 24 March 1846, possibly due to the shock of hearing the news of Kashmir being sold to the [[Dogra dynasty]] of [[Jammu]] under the [[Treaty of Amritsar, 1846|treaty of Amritsar]].{{sfn|Parmu|1977|p=235}} He is also suspected of having been poisoned.{{sfn|Sufi|1949|p=748}} Muhy-ud-Din was buried in the [[Sufi lodge|''khanqah'']] of [[Hamza Makhdoom|Makhdum Shaikh Hamza]] in [[Hari Parbat]], Srinagar.{{sfn|Sufi|1949|p=748}} He was succeeded by his son Shaikh Imam-ud-Din as the governor.{{sfn|Sufi|1949|p=747}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Sources==<br />
* {{Cite book|oclc=1504631 |last=Sufi |first=G. M. D.|chapter= Chapter XI {{snd}} Kashmīr Under the Sikhs|title=Kashīr: Being a History of Kashmīr|volume=II|date=1949|publisher=The University of the Punjab|location=Lahore|url-access=}}<br />
* {{Cite book |last=Parmu |first=R. K. |chapter= Chapter V: An Essay in Harmony |title=A History of Sikh Rule in Kashmir (1819–1846) |date=1977 |publisher=Government Press, Srinagar|language=en|oclc=7597898}}<br />
* {{cite encyclopedia |first= Hameed-ud |last= Din |editor1-last=Singh |editor1-first=Harbans |editor1-link=Harbans Singh |title=Ghulam Mohiy Ud-din, Shaikh |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia Of Sikhism | volume=II E–L |edition=Third |pages= |publisher=Punjabi University Patiala |url= |date=2011 |isbn=978-8-1-7380-204-1 |language=English}}<br />
* {{cite book |last=Lawrence |first=Walter Roper |author-link=Walter Roper Lawrence|chapter =Political History|title=The Valley of Kashmir |publisher=London: H. Frowde |year=1895 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.234537/page/n212|oclc=1149016}}<br />
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