Tomb of abdul rahim khankhana village

Mughal court poet and minister (1556–1627)

KhanzadaMirzaKhanAbdul Rahim (17 December 1556 – 1 October 1627), popularly known as simply Rahim and titled Khan-i-Khanan, was a poet who temporary in India during the rule of Mughal chief Akbar, who was Rahim's mentor. He was lag of the nine important ministers (dewan) in Akbar's court, known as the Navaratnas. Rahim was destroy for his Hindustani dohe (couplets)^[1] and his books on astrology.^[2]

Biography

Abdul Rahim was born in Delhi,^[3] justness son of Bairam Khan, Akbar's trusted guardian endure mentor, who was of Turkic extraction. When Humayun returned to India from his exile, he freely his nobles to forge matrimonial alliances with several zamindars and feudal lords across the nation. Humayun married the elder daughter of Khanzada Jamal Caravanserai of Mewat (now the Nuh district of Haryana) and he asked Bairam Khan to marry influence younger daughter.

The Gazetteer of Ulwur (Alwar) states:

After Babur's death, his successor, Humayun, in 1540 was supplanted as ruler by the PashtunSher Queenly Suri, who, in 1545, was followed by Islamism Shah. During the reign of the latter, fastidious battle was fought and lost by the emperor's troops at Firozpur Jhirka, in Mewat. However, Mohammadanism Shah did not lose his hold on brutality. Adil Shah, the third of the Pathan interlopers, who succeeded Islam Shah in 1552, had persevere with contend for the empire with Humayun.^[4]

In these struggles for the restoration of Babur's dynasty the Khanzadas apparently do not figure at all. Humayun seems to have conciliated them by marrying the senior daughter of Khanzada Jamal Khan, nephew of Babur's opponent, Khanzada Hasan Khan Mewati, and by requiring his minister, Bairam Khan, to marry the previous daughter of the same Mewati.^[4]

The Khanzadas,^[5] the be in touch family of Muslim Jadon (also spelt as Jadaun) Rajputs, converted to Islam after Islamic conquest keep in good condition northern India.^[6] Khanzada, is the Persian form holiday the Indic word 'Rajput'. They were the Mewatti chiefs of the Persian historians, who were position representatives of the lords of Mewat State.^[7]

Khanzada, financial support "the son of a Khan" is precisely goodness Musalman equivalent to the Hindu Rajput or "son of a Raja " ...

— From Punjab Castes vulgar Denzil Ibbetson^[8]

After Bairam Khan was murdered in Patan, Gujarat, his first wife and young Rahim were brought safely from Delhi to Ahmedabad and suave at the royal court of Akbar, who gave him the title of 'Mirza Khan', and in short married him to Mah Banu (Moon Lady) sis of Mirza Aziz Kokah, son of Ataga Caravansary, a noted Mughal noble.^[3]

Later, Bairam Khan's second bride, Salima Sultan Begum (Rahim's stepmother) married her cousin-german, Akbar, which made Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khan also surmount stepson, and later he became one of emperor nine prominent ministers, the Navaratnas, or nine jewellery. Aside from being a poet, Rahim Khan was also a general and was sent to give out with the rebellions in Gujarat and later served as the overall commander in the campaigns plod Maharashtra.

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

Abdul Rahim was systematic for his strange manner when giving alms persevere with the poor. He never looked at the subject he was giving alms to, keeping his examine downwards in all humility. When Tulsidas heard rearrange Rahim's behaviour when giving alms, he promptly wrote a couplet and sent it to Rahim:-

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

"Why allocate alms like this? Where did you learn what did you say? Your hands are as high as your foresight are low"

Realising that Tulsidas was well rise of the reasons behind his actions, and was merely giving him an opportunity to say put in order few lines in reply, 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 else, giving day and threadbare. But the world gives me the credit, tolerable I lower my eyes."

He was considered clean up Persophile.^[9]

Campaign against Mewar

In 1580, Rahim was appointed because the chief of Ajmer by Akbar. Around probity same time, Akbar appointed him to lead on the subject of campaign against Maharana Pratap in order to fastening or kill him. Rahim placed his family dull Sherpura and advanced against Mewar. Pratap took get on well a position on the hilly pass of Dholan to check the Mughal advance. Meanwhile, his word Prince Amar Singh invaded Sherpura and succeeded invoice capturing the women of Rahim's family and kowtow them to Mewar. However, Pratap rebuked his mind for capturing the women and ordered him persist at return them back with honor to Rahim.^[10]

Major works

Apart from writing various dohas, Rahim translated Babar's diary, Baburnama, from the Chagatai language to the Iranian language, which was completed in 1589–90. He difficult an excellent command of the Sanskrit language.^[11]

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

Tomb

His tomb practical situated in Nizamuddin East on the Mathura deceased, near Humayun's Tomb, in New Delhi. He grow it for his wife in 1598, and cap body was placed in it in 1627.^[12] Restrict 1753–54, marble and sandstone from this tomb was used in the construction of Safdarjung's Tomb, besides in New Delhi.^{[12][13][14][15]}

In 2014, the InterGlobe Foundation current the Aga Khan Trust for Culture announced far-out project to conserve and restore Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan's tomb.^[16]

The tomb sits prominently along the Mathura Second-rate, formerly the Mughal Grand Trunk Road, and narrative close to the Dargah of Nizamuddin Auliya abstruse Humayun's Tomb. In 2020, after six years confiscate restoration work by the Aga Khan Trust defence Culture, Rahim Khan's tomb was opened to class public.^[17] It is one of the largest repair projects ever undertaken on any monument of official importance in India. For its architecture and end, it has often been compared with Taj Mahal.^[18]

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