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obtained very little else, while the Emperor’s friends and the Turani 
chiefs obtained the lion’s share. A crowd of new men were thus 
brought on the stage, and it is necessary for the sake of clearness that 
we should say something about the most prominent of them, their 
origin and antecedents. 
7. 1‘timadu-daulah Muhammad AmIn Khan, Bahadur, Nusrat Jang. 
Muhammad Amin Khan was a native of Samarqand in the king¬ 
dom of Bukhara. His grandfather, ‘Alam Shaikh, a learned man and 
a descendant of the Shaikh Shahabu-d-din, Quraishi, Tarmani, Sadiqi, 
of Sahrward, had two sons, Khwaja ‘Abid and Mir Bahau-d-din. The 
elder son came to India and was the father of Grhaziu-d-din Khan. 
Firuz Jang; the second son, Mir Bahau-d-din, Muhammad Amin’s 
father, entered the employ of the ruler of Bukhara, and was by him 
executed on suspicion of complicity with his rebellious son. This event 
happened about the year 1098 H. (1686-7), when Mir Muhammad 
Amin must have been about twenty-five years of age. He escaped to 
India and was favourably received by ‘Alamgir, then in the Dakhin, by 
whom he was sent to serve with his cousin, Eiruz Jang. In the forty- 
second year, 1109-10 H., 1697-8, when ‘Alamgir was anxious to find in 
the Turanis a counterpoise to Asad Khan, the Wazir, and his son, 
Zu-l-fiqar Khan, Muhammad Amin Khan was brought to Court and made 
sadr , or head of the charitable and religious endowments. In 1115-16 
H., 1704-5, and again in 1116-17 H., his rank was raised in reward for 
military services, and in the very last year of ‘Alamgir’s reign 
(1118 H.), after defeating the Mahrattahs, he received the special 
addition of Cln Bahadur to his other titles. Although the Turanis had 
not shown any great zeal for his rival, A‘zam Shah, still Bahadur Shah 
did not receive them into the same favour as before. Muhammad Amin 
Khan was sent to Muradabad as faujddr; but towards the end of the 
reign, he was brought back to headquarters, and took a leading part in 
the campaign against the Sikhs. When Jahandar Shah decided to march 
against Farrukhsiyar, Muhammad Amin Khan was recalled from Sah- 
rind. He was present in Jahandar Shah’s ranks at Agrah, but as we 
have related, took no serious part in the fighting. This betrayal was 
now rewarded by his appointment to be second Bakhshi of the empire. 
At this time he was about fifty-two years of age, and since the death 
of Firuz Jang in 1122 H., 1710-11, he had become the acknowledged 
leader of the Turani soldiery, his cousin, Cin Qilic Khan (Nizamu-1- 
mulk), son of Firuz Jang, being about ten years his junior. 1 
1 Ma’dsiru-l-umard, I, 346. 
