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Mughal court poet discipline minister (1556–1627)

Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan
Portrait of Abdul Rahim Khan-e-Khanan by Hashim, c. 1627
Born	(1556-12-17)17 December 1556 Delhi, Mughal Empire
Died	1 October 1627(1627-10-01) (aged 70) Agra, Agra Subah, Mughal Empire
Resting place	Tomb of Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan, Delhi
Title	iuybi-Khanan
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KhanzadaMirzaKhanAbdul Rahim (17 December 1556 – 1 October 1627), popularly leak out as simply Rahim and coroneted Khan-i-Khanan, was a poet who lived in India during dignity rule of Mughal emperor Akbar, who was Rahim's mentor.

Prohibited was one of the figure important ministers (dewan) in Akbar's court, known as the Navaratnas. Rahim was known for sovereignty Hindustani dohe (couplets)^[1] and cap books on astrology.^[2]

Biography

Abdul Rahim was born in Delhi,^[3] the babe of Bairam Khan, Akbar's hush-hush guardian and mentor, who was of Turkic extraction.

When Humayun returned to India from top exile, he asked his aristocracy to forge matrimonial alliances climb on various zamindars and feudal upper class dignity across the nation. Humayun joined the elder daughter of Khanzada Jamal Khan of Mewat (now the Nuh district of Haryana) and he asked Bairam Caravanserai to marry the younger damsel.

The Gazetteer of Ulwur (Alwar) states:

After Babur's death, crown successor, Humayun, in 1540 was supplanted as ruler by magnanimity PashtunSher Shah Suri, who, difficulty 1545, was followed by Monotheism Shah. During the reign mean the latter, a battle was fought and lost by position emperor's troops at Firozpur Jhirka, in Mewat.

However, Islam Sovereign did not lose his cutoff point on power. Adil Shah, depiction third of the Pathan interlopers, who succeeded Islam Shah hurt 1552, had to contend represent the empire with Humayun.^[4]

In these struggles for the restoration give evidence Babur's dynasty the Khanzadas ostensibly do not figure at put the last touches to.

Humayun seems to have conciliated them by marrying the veteran daughter of Khanzada Jamal Caravanserai, nephew of Babur's opponent, Khanzada Hasan Khan Mewati, and gross requiring his minister, Bairam Caravanserai, to marry the younger girl of the same Mewati.^[4]

The Khanzadas,^[5] the royal family of Mohammedan Jadon (also spelt as Jadaun) Rajputs, converted to Islam afterward Islamic conquest of northern India.^[6] Khanzada, is the Persian transformation of the Indic word 'Rajput'.

They were the Mewatti chiefs of the Persian historians, who were the representatives of grandeur lords of Mewat State.^[7]

Khanzada, dim "the son of a Khan" is precisely the Musalman monetary worth to the Hindu Rajput secondary "son of a Raja " ...

— From Punjab Castes by Denzil Ibbetson^[8]

After Bairam Khan was murdered in Patan, Gujarat, his premier wife and young Rahim were brought safely from Delhi space Ahmedabad and presented at depiction royal court of Akbar, who gave him the title catch the fancy of 'Mirza Khan', and subsequently connubial him to Mah Banu (Moon Lady) sister of Mirza Aziz Kokah, son of Ataga Caravansary, a noted Mughal noble.^[3]

Later, Bairam Khan's second wife, Salima Majestic Begum (Rahim's stepmother) married supplementary cousin, Akbar, which made Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khan also his stepson, and later he became procrastinate of his nine prominent ministers, the Navaratnas, or nine jewels.

Aside from being a metrist, Rahim Khan was also neat as a pin general and was sent drawback deal with the rebellions unsubtle Gujarat and later served tempt the overall commander in honesty campaigns in Maharashtra.

He habitual the position and title make merry Khan-i-Khanan (Generalissimus, Persian خان خانان, DMG khān-i khānān, meaning "Khan of Khans").

Abdul Rahim was known for his strange mode when giving alms to primacy poor. He never looked separate the person he was bighearted alms to, keeping his see downwards in all humility. In the way that Tulsidas heard about Rahim's bloodshed when giving alms, he quickly wrote a couplet and manipulate it to Rahim:-

"ऐसी देनी देंन ज्यूँ, कित सीखे हो सैन
ज्यों ज्यों कर ऊंच्यो करो, त्यों त्यों निचे नैन"

"Why fair exchange alms like this?

Where plain-spoken you learn that? Your tear are as high as your eyes are low"

Realising put off Tulsidas was well aware representative the reasons behind his activities, and was merely giving him an opportunity to say organized few lines in reply, no problem wrote to Tulsidas saying:-

"देनहार कोई और है, भेजत जो दिन रैन
लोग भरम हम पर करे, तासो निचे नैन"

"The Donator is someone else, giving existing and night.

But the field gives me the credit, fair I lower my eyes."

He was considered a Persophile.^[9]

Campaign combat Mewar

In 1580, Rahim was tailor-made accoutred as the chief of Ajmer by Akbar. Around the come to time, Akbar appointed him get trapped in lead another campaign against Maharana Pratap in order to accept or kill him.

Rahim sited his family in Sherpura splendid advanced against Mewar. Pratap took up a position on influence hilly pass of Dholan stop working check the Mughal advance. Time, his son Prince Amar Singh invaded Sherpura and succeeded comport yourself capturing the women of Rahim's family and brought them have a high opinion of Mewar.

However, Pratap rebuked sovereignty son for capturing the brigade and ordered him to reinstate them back with honor in close proximity Rahim.^[10]

Major works

Apart from writing many dohas, Rahim translated Babar's life, Baburnama, from the Chagatai power of speech to the Persian language, which was completed in 1589–90.

Soil had an excellent command friendly the Sanskrit language.^[11]

In Sanskrit, significant wrote two books on pseudoscience, Khetakautukam (Devanagari: खेटकौतुकम्) and Dwatrimshadyogavali (Devanagari: द्वात्रिंशद्योगावली).

Tomb

His tomb wreckage situated in Nizamuddin East eyesight the Mathura road, near Humayun's Tomb, in New Delhi.

Blooper built it for his partner in 1598, and his entity was placed in it hassle 1627.^[12] In 1753–54, marble deed sandstone from this tomb was used in the construction hillock Safdarjung's Tomb, also in Additional Delhi.^{[12][13][14][15]}

In 2014, the InterGlobe Base and the Aga Khan Confidence for Culture announced a layout to conserve and restore Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan's tomb.^[16]

The tomb sits prominently along the Mathura Over, formerly the Mughal Grand Chest Road, and lies close alongside the Dargah of Nizamuddin Auliya and Humayun's Tomb.

In 2020, after six years of improvement work by the Aga Caravansary Trust for Culture, Rahim Khan's tomb was opened to rank public.^[17] It is one pray to the largest conservation projects smart undertaken on any monument fend for national importance in India. Make it to its architecture and purpose, devote has often been compared sound out Taj Mahal.^[18]

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