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But the greatest of all was the eldest son, Ghaziu-d-din Khan, Firuz 
Jang, and to him we now turn. 
Mir Shahabu-d-din was born at Samarqand about the year 1060 H. 
(1649-50) ; and followed his father to India in the twelfth year of 
‘Alamgir (1079-80 H., 1668-9), when he was in his nineteenth or 
twentieth year. He received the rank of 300 Zat, 70 horse. His 
special favour with ‘Alamgir began ten years later when, at the peril of 
his life, he brought speedy information from a general who had been 
sent in pursuit of the Rana into the hills of Udaipur, and of whose 
safety no tidings could be obtained. For this service he obtained the 
title of Khan and from that time rose rapidly, especially after he had 
proved his loyalty by rejecting all advances from the emperor’s rebel 
son, Prince Akbar. He accompanied the emperor into the Dakhin 
and took part in all the campaigns there for the succeeding five and 
twenty years. He conquered Ibrahimgarh-Ekar (also called Firuz- 
garh); was conspicuous in the taking of ■ Haidarabad; AdonI (Imti- 
yaz-gark) also fell before him. He was sent against (Jambhaji, son of 
fivaji, in 1099-1100 H. (1687-8), and served against Deogarh 
(Islamgark), which he captured. In the forty-eighth year, 1115-16 H., 
1703-4, he pursued the Mahrattahs into Malwah. At the time of 
‘Alamgir’s death in 1118H., 1707, he was at Elicpur, in charge of 
the subah of Barar. As we have already recounted (under Bahadur 
Shah’s reign), he took no part in the war of succession between A‘zam 
Shah and Bahadur Shah. The Turanis were not in favour with the 
victor, Bahadur Shah, and thus Firuz Jang was moved out of the 
Dakhin, where he was dangerous, to the government of Ahmadabad 
in Gujarat. There he died on the 17th Shawwal 1L22 H. (8th December, 
1710) at the age of sixty-two (lunar) years. He held the rank of 7,000 
zat. Following the usual Mughal system, his estate was confiscated on 
his death. It consisted of 1| lakhs of rupees in bills on bankers, 
133,000 gold muhrs , 25,000 Hun (gold) and mm-paoli (gold), 17,000 
gold Paoli, 400 adhell (half) and 8,000 whole silver Paoli , 140 horses, 
300 camels, 400 oxen and 38 elephants. 
Ghaziu-d-din Khan is described as the most exceptionally gifted 
among the Turani nobles, good-natured, dignified, fortunate in war and 
an excellent administrator. His first wdfe was the daughter of Sa‘d-ul- 
lah Khan, 1 Wazir of Shahjahan ; after her death he married in succes¬ 
sion two of her nieces, daughters of her brother, Hifz-ullah Khan 
(Miyan Khan), but by these two wives he had no children. For the 
last twenty years of his life he was totally blind, his sight having been 
1 S. K. died 1066 H., 1665-6, see M-ul-u, II, 441 and T-i-Mhdi, year 1066 H. 
