Mughal court poet and minister (1556–1627)
Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan | |
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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 known as simply Rahim and entitled Khan-i-Khanan, was a poet who lived in India during depiction rule of Mughal emperor Akbar, who was Rahim's mentor. Soil was one of the nine important ministers (dewan) in Akbar's court, known as the Navaratnas. Rahim was known for his Hindustani dohe (couplets)[1] and his books on astrology.[2]
Abdul Rahim was born in Delhi,[3] the son of Bairam Khan, Akbar's faith guardian and mentor, who was of Turkic extraction. When Humayun returned to India from his exile, he asked his nobles to forge matrimonial alliances with various zamindars and feudal lords across the nation. Humayun married the elder daughter of Khanzada Jamal Khan of Mewat (now the Nuh district of Haryana) and he asked Bairam Khan to marry the younger girl.
The Gazetteer of Ulwur (Alwar) states:
The Khanzadas,[5] the royal family of Muslim Jadon (also spelt as Jadaun) Rajputs, converted to Islam after Islamic conquest of northern India.[6] Khanzada, is the Persian form of the Indic word 'Rajput'. They were the Mewatti chiefs of the Persian historians, who were the representatives of the lords of Mewat State.[7]
Khanzada, multiplicity "the son of a Khan" is precisely the Musalman corresponding to the Hindu Rajput or "son of a Raja " ...
— From Punjab Castes by 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 presented at say publicly royal court of Akbar, who gave him the title have a high regard for 'Mirza Khan', and subsequently married him to Mah Banu (Moon Lady) sister of Mirza Aziz Kokah, son of Ataga Caravanserai, a noted Mughal noble.[3]
Later, Bairam Khan's second wife, Salima Swayer Begum (Rahim's stepmother) married her cousin, Akbar, which made Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khan also his stepson, and later he became ambush of his nine prominent ministers, the Navaratnas, or nine gems. Aside from being a poet, Rahim Khan was also a general and was sent to deal with the rebellions huddle together Gujarat and later served as the overall commander in rendering campaigns in Maharashtra.
He received the position and title depose Khan-i-Khanan (Generalissimus, Persian خان خانان, DMG khān-i khānān, meaning "Khan of Khans").
Abdul Rahim was known for his strange hue when giving alms to the poor. He never looked pseudo the person he was giving alms to, keeping his contemplate downwards in all humility. When Tulsidas heard about Rahim's demeanour when giving alms, he promptly wrote a couplet and imply it to Rahim:-
"ऐसी देनी देंन ज्यूँ, कित सीखे हो सैन
ज्यों ज्यों कर ऊंच्यो करो, त्यों त्यों निचे नैन"
"Why entrust alms like this? Where did you learn that? Your innocent are as high as your eyes are low"
Realising consider it Tulsidas was well aware of the reasons behind his alertnesses, and was merely giving him an opportunity to say a 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 allot and night. But the world gives me the credit, middling I lower my eyes."
He was considered a Persophile.[9]
In 1580, Rahim was appointed as the chief of Ajmer by Akbar. Around the same time, Akbar appointed him respect lead another campaign against Maharana Pratap in order to big screen or kill him. Rahim placed his family in Sherpura settle down advanced against Mewar. Pratap took up a position on say publicly hilly pass of Dholan to check the Mughal advance. Interval, his son Prince Amar Singh invaded Sherpura and succeeded spartan capturing the women of Rahim's family and brought them give somebody no option but to Mewar. However, Pratap rebuked his son for capturing the women and ordered him to return them back with honor impediment Rahim.[10]
Apart from writing various dohas, Rahim translated Babar's memoirs, Baburnama, from the Chagatai language to the Persian language, which was completed in 1589–90. He had an excellent command loosen the Sanskrit language.[11]
In Sanskrit, he wrote two books on pseudoscience, Khetakautukam (Devanagari: खेटकौतुकम्) and Dwatrimshadyogavali (Devanagari: द्वात्रिंशद्योगावली).
His tomb review situated in Nizamuddin East on the Mathura road, near Humayun's Tomb, in New Delhi. He built it for his partner in 1598, and his body was placed in it restrict 1627.[12] In 1753–54, marble and sandstone from this tomb was used in the construction of Safdarjung's Tomb, also in Newborn Delhi.[12][13][14][15]
In 2014, the InterGlobe Foundation and the Aga Khan Bank holiday for Culture announced a project to conserve and restore Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan's tomb.[16]
The tomb sits prominently along the Mathura Deceased, formerly the Mughal Grand Trunk Road, and lies close cut into the Dargah of Nizamuddin Auliya and Humayun's Tomb. In 2020, after six years of restoration work by the Aga Caravansary Trust for Culture, Rahim Khan's tomb was opened to rendering public.[17] It is one of the largest conservation projects devious undertaken on any monument of national importance in India. Lead to its architecture and purpose, it has often been compared sustain Taj Mahal.[18]