Ghazi ud-Din Khan Feroze Jung I

Ghazi ud-Din Khan Feroze Jung I, Hyderabad, 1690

Mir Shahâb ud-Din Siddiqi titled Farzand-i-Arjumand, Nawab Ghazi ud-din Khan Siddiqi Bayafandi Bahadur, Feroze Jung I, Sipah Salar (c. 1649–1710) was the son of Kilich Khan Khwaja Abid Khan Siddiqi Bayafandi the Sadr us Sudur of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb and was raised to the rank of an Amir with the initial titles of Ghazi ud-Din Bahadur Khan and later Feroze Jung after his father's death. He was commander and chief at the Siege of Golkonda Fort in 1686 when Emperor Aurangzeb personally conquered Golkonda Sultanate taking the last Sultan Abul Hasan Qutb Shah prisoner.

Early life[edit]

Mir Shahab ud-Din hailed from Bukhara. He arrived in India around the year 1674.^[1]

Career[edit]

He was made Subahdar (governor) of Gujarat Subah (province) during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah I. He died in Ahmedabad in 1710 and was taken to Delhi where he was buried in the yard of the college built by him in front of the Ajmeri Gate.^[2] His son was the famous Qamar-ud-din Khan Siddiqi, Asaf Jah I the first Nizam of Hyderabad.

Men in his command included his son Qamar-ud-din Khan and others such as: Hamid Khan and Rahim-ud-din Khan.

Personal life[edit]

He was married first at Delhi with Wazirunisa Begum daughter of Nawab Saadullah Khan Bahadur wazir to Emperor Shahjahan. Having had issue a son, Qamar-ud-din Khan, Asaf Jah I and a daughter who married to Sahibzada Hamidullah Khan son of Imad Ul Mulk Nawab Khwaja Mohammed Mubariz Khan Bahadur sometime Subadar of Deccan.

Philanthropy[edit]

In 1690s, through religious endowment he founded a madarsa, Madrasa Ghaziuddin Khan after him.

Ghaziuddin complex[edit]

The Ghaziuddin Khan complex or the Madrasa Ghaziuddin in Old Delhi located adjacent to New Delhi railway station on the Ajmeri Gate side consists of the mosque and tomb of Ghazi ud-Din Khan Feroze Jung I and the Anglo Arabic Senior Secondary School. Previously a madrasa functioned here. Over the decades different educational institutions have functioned from here.

Madrasa Ghaziuddin Khan became the historic and influential Delhi College which eventually paved way for the present Zakir Hussain College (University of Delhi), which in 1986, shifted to a new building outside Turkman Gate, the old structure in the Madrasa Ghaziuddin complex, still houses a hostel for the college and also has his Ghaziuddin's mausoleum.^[3]

Structures at Ghaziuddin complex
Tomb of Ghaziuddin Khan
Courtyard of Ghazi al-Din Khan's Madrassah at Delhi 1814-15
A grave at the complex
Graves in the complex
The tomb and surrounding marble enclosure of Ghazi al-Din Khan, Sita Ram 1814
Mosque of Ghaziuddin

References[edit]

↑ Asher, Catherine B. (24 September 1992). Architecture of Mughal India. Cambridge University Press. p. 274. doi:10.1017/chol9780521267281. ISBN 978-0-521-26728-1.
↑ An oriental biographical dictionary: founded on materials collected by the late Thomas William Beale; by Thomas William Beale, Henry George Keene, 2nd edition, published by W. H. Allen, 1894, Original from the University of California
↑ Fanshawe, p. 64

Works cited[edit]

H.C. Fanshawe (1998). Delhi, past and present. Asian Educational Services. ISBN 81-206-1318-X.

Bibliography for Ghaziuddin complex[edit]

Ali, Asif; Saquib, Mohammad (January–April 2022). "Ghaziuddin Khan Complex: A Remarkable Monument in the Development of Late Mughal Architecture" (PDF). Indian Journal of Archaeology. 7 (1): 780–789. ISSN 2455-2798.
South Shahjahanabad (PDF), Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH Delhi Chapter). World Monuments Fund.
Jafa, Navina (2012). "Chapter 2". Performing Heritage: Art of Exhibit Walks. SAGE Publications India. ISBN 978-81-321-1701-8.
Smith, Ronald Vivian (2005). The Delhi that No-one Knows. Orient Blackswan. pp. 57–58. ISBN 978-81-8028-020-7.
Khan, Sharmin; Ali, Asif; Khozaei, Fatemeh; Hussain, Anwar (July 2021). The Scientific Journal of NAZAR research center (Nrc) for Art, Architecture & Urbanism. "The Stylistic Similarity of Mughal Architecture with Malaysian Mosques: An Alternative Approach". Bagh-e Nazar. 18 (97): 97–108. doi:10.22034/bagh.2020.225896.4526.
Delhi: The Built Heritage (PDF), vol. 4, Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH Delhi Chapter). National Institute of Urban Affairs. Delhi Development Authority, 2021, pp. 35–39
Ahmed, Firoz Bakht. "Delhi's oldest running institution: Anglo Arabic School: a three-century old academic". The Milli Gazette. ISSN 0972-3366.
Soofi, Mayank Austen (23 May 2017). "Delhiwale: Where schoolyard meets graveyard". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
"Legacy of Mughal era rots". The Milli Gazette. 16–31 March 2005.
"174 monuments, sites in Delhi declared 'monuments of national importance': Govt". The Tribune India. 2 July 2019.

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[1] Asher, Catherine B. (24 September 1992). Architecture of Mughal India. Cambridge University Press. p. 274. doi:10.1017/chol9780521267281. ISBN 978-0-521-26728-1.

[2] An oriental biographical dictionary: founded on materials collected by the late Thomas William Beale; by Thomas William Beale, Henry George Keene, 2nd edition, published by W. H. Allen, 1894, Original from the University of California

[3] Fanshawe, p. 64

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