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Wazir Khan (Sirhind)

Mirza Askari Wazir Khan
میرزا عسکری وزیرخان
Wazir Khan
Faujdar (Commander)
Sarkar (Deputy-Governor)
Depiction of Wazir Khan of Sirhind beheaded during the Battle of Sirhind (1710) from an illustrated folio of ‘Tawarikh-i Jahandar Shah’, Awadh or Lucknow, ca.1770
Sarkar (Deputy-Governor) of Sirhind
Holding Office(Late 17th-Centuries)
12 May 1710
SuccessorBaj Singh of Khalsa Fauj
PadishahAlamgir I
BornMirza Askari
c. 1635
Kunjpura, Delhi Subah, Mughal Empire[1]
Died12 May 1710(1710-05-12) (aged 74–75)
Chappar Chiri, Punjab
IssueTulghan Khan
Names
Mirza Askari Wazir Khan bin Zahir Haram Khan
Farsiمیرزا عسکری وزیرخان بن ظاهر حرم خان
FatherZahir Haram Khan
MotherAmina Begum
ReligionSunni Islam
OccupationDeputy-Governor and Military Commander of the Mughal Empire

Mirza Askari (Persian: میرزا عسکری, c. 1635 — 12 May 1710), better known by his title Wazir Khan, He was the Moghul (Military Commander) Faujdar of the Sirhind region and (Deputy-Governor) Sarkar of Sirhind under the Delhi Subah in the present-day state of Punjab, and administered the territory that lay between the Sutlej and Yamuna rivers, he official notable for his conflicts with the Sikhs,[2][3][4][5] he was the descendant of (Wazir Khan Akbar Shahi) of Persian descent who was the Courtrian to the third Emperor of Hindustan, Akbar I.[5]

  1. ^ Gandhi, Surjit (1999). Sikhs in the Eighteenth Century: Their Struggle for Survival and Supremacy. Singh Bros. p. 716. ISBN 81-7205-217-0. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
  2. ^ Dr Harjinder Singh, 'Sikh History in 10 Volumes', Sikh University Press, Belgium, vol. 2, p. 31.
  3. ^ Dr Harjinder Singh, 'Sikh History in 10 Volumes', Sikh University Press, Belgium, vol 1, pp 64, 259-60.
  4. ^ Tony Jaques (2007). Dictionary of battles and sieges. Vol. 3. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 948. ISBN 9780313335396.
  5. ^ a b History of Islam, p. 506, at Google Books

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