Ahmad Majid ( bn, আহমদ মজিদ, Ahmôd Môjid, fa, ), was a

Faujdar Faujdar is a term of pre-Mughal origins. Under the Mughals it was an office that combined the functions of a military commander along with judicial and land revenue functions. In pre-Mughal times, the term referred to a military officer but d ...

Mughal Bengal The Bengal Subah ( bn, সুবাহ বাংলা; fa, ), also referred to as Mughal Bengal ( bn, মোগল বাংলা), was the largest subdivision of the Mughal Empire (and later an independent state under the Nawabs of Beng ...

's Sylhet Sarkar during the reign of Emperor

Aurangzeb Muhi al-Din Muhammad (; – 3 March 1707), commonly known as ( fa, , lit=Ornament of the Throne) and by his regnal title Alamgir ( fa, , translit=ʿĀlamgīr, lit=Conqueror of the World), was the sixth emperor of the Mughal Empire, ruling ...

and governorship of Subahdar

Azim-ush-Shan Azim-ush-Shan ( fa, ; 15 December 1664 – 18 March 1712) was the second son of Mughal emperor Shah Alam I, by his second wife, Amrita Bai, Princess of Kishangarh. He was the grandson of Emperor Aurangzeb, during whose reign, he was the ''suba ...

Career

In 1699, Majid granted some land to Bharat Das Vaishnav of Dulali in the Dhakadakshin Pargana as ''devatra''. The land was later inherited by his son, Bhabananda Vaishnav. Several months later, Majid was succeeded as the Faujdar of Sylhet by Abdullah Shirazi.

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