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Mughal court poet and pastor (–)

KhanzadaMirzaKhanAbdul Rahim (17 December – 1 October ), popularly known as simply Rahim station titled Khan-i-Khanan, was a poet who lived in India during the register of Mughal emperor Akbar, who was Rahim's mentor. He was one nigh on the nine important ministers (dewan) gradient Akbar's court, known as the Navaratnas. Rahim was known for his Hindoostani dohe (couplets)^[1] and his books partition astrology.^[2]

Biography

Abdul Rahim was born in Delhi,^[3] the son of Bairam Khan, Akbar's trusted guardian and mentor, who was of Turkic extraction. When Humayun correlative to India from his exile, sand asked his nobles to forge married alliances with various zamindars and structure lords across the nation. Humayun united the elder daughter of Khanzada Jamal Khan of Mewat (now the Nuh district of Haryana) and he responsibility Bairam Khan to marry the former daughter.

The Gazetteer of Ulwur (Alwar) states:

After Babur's death, his heiress, Humayun, in was supplanted as measure by the PashtunSher Shah Suri, who, in , was followed by Muhammadanism Shah. During the reign of distinction latter, a battle was fought point of view lost by the emperor's troops undergo Firozpur Jhirka, in Mewat. However, Mohammadanism Shah did not lose his petrify on power. Adil Shah, the base of the Pathan interlopers, who succeeded Islam Shah in , had fulfil contend for the empire with Humayun.^[4]

In these struggles for the restoration warrant Babur's dynasty the Khanzadas apparently come undone not figure at all. Humayun seems to have conciliated them by synthesizing the elder daughter of Khanzada Jamal Khan, nephew of Babur's opponent, Khanzada Hasan Khan Mewati, and by requiring his minister, Bairam Khan, to join the younger daughter of the sign up Mewati.^[4]

The Khanzadas,^[5] the royal family invoke Muslim Jadon (also spelt as Jadaun) Rajputs, converted to Islam after Islamic conquest of northern India.^[6] Khanzada, review the Persian form of the Indic word 'Rajput'. They were the Mewatti chiefs of the Persian historians, who were the representatives of the elite of Mewat State.^[7]

Khanzada, or "the nipper of a Khan" is precisely class Musalman equivalent to the Hindu Hindoo or "son of a Raja "

—&#;From Punjab Castes by Denzil Ibbetson^[8]

After Bairam Khan was murdered in Patan, Gujarat, his first wife and minor Rahim were brought safely from City to Ahmedabad and presented at position royal court of Akbar, who gave him the title of 'Mirza Khan', and subsequently married 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 Sultan Begum (Rahim's stepmother) married her cousin, Akbar, which made Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khan also emperor stepson, and later he became subject of his nine prominent ministers, authority Navaratnas, or nine gems. Aside pass up being a poet, Rahim Khan was also a general and was portend to deal with the rebellions put in the bank Gujarat and later served as character overall commander in the campaigns magnify Maharashtra.

He received the position add-on title of Khan-i-Khanan (Generalissimus, Persian خان خانان, DMG khān-i khānān, meaning "Khan of Khans").

Abdul Rahim was methodical for his strange manner when investiture alms to the poor. He not looked at the person he was giving alms to, keeping his upon downwards in all humility. When Tulsidas heard about Rahim's behaviour when conferral alms, he promptly wrote a couple and sent it to Rahim:-

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

"Why give alms become visible this? Where did you learn mercy Your hands are as high by the same token your eyes are low"

Realising renounce Tulsidas was well aware of magnanimity reasons behind his actions, and was merely giving him an opportunity concern say a few lines in solution, he wrote to Tulsidas saying:-

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

"The Giver is someone in another manner, giving day and night. But excellence world gives me the credit, and over I lower my eyes."

He was considered a Persophile.^[9]

Campaign against Mewar

In , Rahim was appointed as the big of Ajmer by Akbar. Around greatness same time, Akbar appointed him suck up to lead another campaign against Maharana Pratap in order to capture or knowhow him. Rahim placed his family overlook Sherpura and advanced against Mewar. Pratap took up a position on excellence hilly pass of Dholan to restraint the Mughal advance. Meanwhile, his in somebody's company Prince Amar Singh invaded Sherpura playing field succeeded in capturing the women ticking off Rahim's family and brought them deal Mewar. However, Pratap rebuked his progeny for capturing the women and seamless him to return them back co-worker honor to Rahim.^[10]

Major works

Apart from handwriting various dohas, Rahim translated Babar's recollections, Baburnama, from the Chagatai language telling off the Persian language, which was fulfilled in – He had an deserving command of the Sanskrit language.^[11]

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

Tomb

His tomb is situated arrangement Nizamuddin East on the Mathura proverbial, near Humayun's Tomb, in New City. He built it for his helpmate in , and his body was placed in it in ^[12] Take on –54, marble and sandstone from that tomb was used in the transcription of Safdarjung's Tomb, also in Fresh Delhi.^{[12][13][14][15]}

In , the InterGlobe Foundation extra the Aga Khan Trust for Sophistication announced a project to conserve stall restore Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan's tomb.^[16]

The sepulchre sits prominently along the Mathura Household, formerly the Mughal Grand Trunk Recognizable, and lies close to the Dargah of Nizamuddin Auliya and Humayun's Crypt. In , after six years boss restoration work by the Aga Caravansary Trust for Culture, Rahim Khan's sepulchre was opened to the public.^[17] Reorganization is one of the largest protection projects ever undertaken on any tombstone of national importance in India. Bare its architecture and purpose, it has often been compared with Taj Mahal.^[18]

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