| Subahdar of Azimabad Ghulam Husain Khan Tabatabai | |
|---|---|
 Portrait of Ghulam Hussain Khan c.1750-1760 | |
| Born | 1727/28 Delhi |
| Died | 1797/98 (aged 69-70) Azimabad |
| Occupation | Historian, Subahdar, Noble |
| Language | Persian |
| Period | 18th century |
| Notable works | Seir Mutaqherin (سیر المتاخرین; lit. 'Review of Modern Times') |
| Relatives | Alivardi Khan, Siraj-ud-Daulah |
Ghulam Hussain Khan also known as Ghulam Husain Khan Tabatabai (1727/28-1797/98) was an 18th century Indian historian and scholar-administrator from Delhi who later settled in Azimabad (Patna). He is the writer of the famous book Seir Mutaqherin (سیر المتاخرین; lit. 'Review of Modern Times'), one of the notable contemporary historical accounts on the late Mughal Empire.
He is considered to be among a slew of Muslim nobles whose families had left Delhi and settled in Azimabad.
Life
Ghulam Husain's ancestors were originally from Iraq. His father Hidayat Khan accompanied the Nawab of Bengal, Alivardi Khan to Azimabad where he was appointed subadar. Ghulam Hussain Khan left Delhi after Nader Shah's Sack of Delhi and moved to the court of his cousin, Alivardi Khan, the Nawab of Bengal, in Murshidabad. Khan was also related to the next nawab, Siraj ud-Daulah, either through Siraj being Alivardi's grandson or in another way.
Charles W. J. Withers described him as a "high-born Bihari official" whose Persian father had served the Mughal Emperor and whose mother was related to Alivardi Khan."
External links
- The Siyar-ul-Mutakherin: a history of the Mahomedan power in India during the last century / by Mir Gholam Hussein-Khan; revised from the translation of Haji Mustefa, and collated with the Persian original, by John Briggs. (1832) https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009726806
- Banglapedia article (22 March 2015) on the Siyar-ul-Mutakhkherin: http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Siyar-ul-Mutakhkherin
- Links to the original Persian books. Volume 1: https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-rbsc-ms-bw-ivanow-0010-17594 and Volume 2: https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-rbsc-ms-bw-ivanow-0011-17595
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- Dalrymple, W. (2019),The Anarchy p80, London: Bloomsbury
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- Withers, Charles (2016). Geographies of the Book. Routledge. p. 31. ISBN 9781317128984.