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Hakim Sadra (Masih-Uz-Zaman), who briefly replaced Mir Musa as the Subahdar in 1635, seized all available supplies of pepper in Surat in 1638. He extorted money from the mercantile communities of Surat, and consequently ran into a conflict with Virji Vora. In the early months of 1638, he put Virji in a jail at Surat. He charged Virji with as many as 50 offences, and sent a list of these offences to the Mughal Emperor, [[Shah Jahan]].<ref>{{cite book | title = Circumambulations in South Asian history | url = https://archive.org/details/circumambulation00kolf | url-access = limited |editor1=D. H. A. Kolff |editor2=Jos J. L. Gommans |editor3=Om Prakash | edition = illustrated | publisher = Brill | year = 2003 | isbn = 978-90-04-13155-2 | page = [https://archive.org/details/circumambulation00kolf/page/n71 60] }}</ref> Virji denied all the charges, and was summoned by the emperor. The emperor set him free and removed Hakim from office.<ref name="MakrandMehta_1991"/> | Hakim Sadra (Masih-Uz-Zaman), who briefly replaced Mir Musa as the Subahdar in 1635, seized all available supplies of pepper in Surat in 1638. He extorted money from the mercantile communities of Surat, and consequently ran into a conflict with Virji Vora. In the early months of 1638, he put Virji in a jail at Surat. He charged Virji with as many as 50 offences, and sent a list of these offences to the Mughal Emperor, [[Shah Jahan]].<ref>{{cite book | title = Circumambulations in South Asian history | url = https://archive.org/details/circumambulation00kolf | url-access = limited |editor1=D. H. A. Kolff |editor2=Jos J. L. Gommans |editor3=Om Prakash | edition = illustrated | publisher = Brill | year = 2003 | isbn = 978-90-04-13155-2 | page = [https://archive.org/details/circumambulation00kolf/page/n71 60] }}</ref> Virji denied all the charges, and was summoned by the emperor. The emperor set him free and removed Hakim from office.<ref name="MakrandMehta_1991"/> | ||
He is noted as sending the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan four Arab horses, and prince [[Murad Bakhsh]] as presenting the emperor with 18 of the famous Gujarat bullocks in c. 1657.<ref>{{cite book|last=Campbell|first=James Macnabb|editor=James Macnabb Campbell|editor-link=James Macnabb Campbell|title=History of Gujarát|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54652/54652-h/54652-h.htm|series=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency|volume= | He is noted as sending the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan four Arab horses, and prince [[Murad Bakhsh]] as presenting the emperor with 18 of the famous Gujarat bullocks in c. 1657.<ref>{{cite book|last=Campbell|first=James Macnabb|editor=James Macnabb Campbell|editor-link=James Macnabb Campbell|title=History of Gujarát|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54652/54652-h/54652-h.htm|series=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency|volume=I. Part II. Musalmán Gujarát. (A.D. 1297–1760.)|year=1896|publisher=The Government Central Press|chapter=Chapter I. Early Musalmán Governors.(A.D. 1297–1403.) and II. ÁHMEDÁBÁD KINGS. (A. D. 1403–1573.)|pages=282}} {{PD-notice}}</ref> | ||
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