Sayyid Mubarak Ali Khan ( bn, মুবারক আলী খান; 1759 – 6 September 1793), better known as Mubarak ud-Daulah (spelled also as: Mubarak ud-Daula), was the
Nawab of Bengal
The Nawab of Bengal ( bn, বাংলার নবাব) was the hereditary ruler of Bengal Subah in Mughal India. In the early 18th-century, the Nawab of Bengal was the ''de facto'' independent ruler of the three regions of Bengal, Bihar, ...
and
Bihar
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. He was the son of
Mir Jafar
Sayyid Mīr Jaʿfar ʿAlī Khān Bahādur ( – 5 February 1765) was a military general who became the first dependent Nawab of Bengal of the British East India Company. His reign has been considered by many historians as the start of the expan ...
and Babbu Begum.
He ascended the throne on 21 March 1770 after his half-brother,
Ashraf Ali Khan
Sayyid Ashraf 'Ali Khan Bahadur ( bn, আশরাফ আলী খান; before 1759 – 24 March 1770), was Nawab Nazim of Bengal and Bihar. He was the fourth son of Mir Jafar.
Life
He was adopted by his aunt, Nafisat un-Nisa Begum Sahiba ...
's death on 10 March 1770. Mubarak Ali Khan was succeeded by his son,
Babar Ali Khan
Sayyid Babar Ali Khan Bahadur ( bn, বাবর আলী খান; died 28 April 1810) was the Nawab of Bengal and Bihar. He succeeded to the Nawab's ''Masnad'' (throne) after his father, Mubarak Ali Khan (Nawab of Bengal) died on 6 Septem ...
after his death on 6 September 1793.
Life
Early years
![Mubarak ud-Daula Nawab of Murshidabad](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Mubarak_ud-Daula_Nawab_of_Murshidabad.jpg)
Nawab Nazim Mubarak Ali Khan, better known as Mubarak ud-Daulah was the son of
Mir Jafar
Sayyid Mīr Jaʿfar ʿAlī Khān Bahādur ( – 5 February 1765) was a military general who became the first dependent Nawab of Bengal of the British East India Company. His reign has been considered by many historians as the start of the expan ...
by Babbu Begum. He succeeded his half brother,
Ashraf Ali Khan
Sayyid Ashraf 'Ali Khan Bahadur ( bn, আশরাফ আলী খান; before 1759 – 24 March 1770), was Nawab Nazim of Bengal and Bihar. He was the fourth son of Mir Jafar.
Life
He was adopted by his aunt, Nafisat un-Nisa Begum Sahiba ...
, at the age of 12 years, after Ashraf Ali Khan's death on 24 March 1770.
Warren Hastings
Warren Hastings (6 December 1732 – 22 August 1818) was a British colonial administrator, who served as the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and so the first Governor-Genera ...
appointed Mubarak ud-Daulah's stepmother,
Munny Begum, his guardian though, his mother Babbu Begum was alive. The reason that why the guardianship was not given Babbu Begum has never been satisfactorily explained.
Later years
![Nawab Mubarak al-Daula of Murshidabad (1770-93) enthroned in durbar](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Nawab_Mubarak_al-Daula_of_Murshidabad_%281770-93%29_enthroned_in_durbar.jpg)
In 1790, the Queen of the
Mughal Emperor
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Shah Alam II
Shah Alam II (; 25 June 1728 – 19 November 1806), also known by his birth name Ali Gohar (or Ali Gauhar), was the seventeenth Mughal Emperor and the son of Alamgir II. Shah Alam II became the emperor of a crumbling Mughal empire. His powe ...
, asked, through
Lord Cornwallis
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, (31 December 1738 – 5 October 1805), styled Viscount Brome between 1753 and 1762 and known as the Earl Cornwallis between 1762 and 1792, was a British Army general and official. In the United S ...
, for one of Nawab Mubarak ud-Daulah's daughters in marriage with her son. The Nawab rejected the offer in the following terms, in a letter to Lord Cornwallis:
''Please request the Queen to pass over the matter. I cannot, by any means, accede to the proposal. there are many obstacles in the matter. Moreover, there is a longstanding usage in my family, that our daughters can never be given in marriage to any one other than Sayyids. If I act contrary to this, my family custom, I shall be ruined. At all events, my mother and I cannot accept the offer.''
—Nawab Nazim Mubarak ud-Daulah of Bengal
Although, the Nawab, then had 13 daughters, and to some extent regarded himself as a servant of the Emperor, he, for family reasons, did not allow the marriage of one of the 13 with even such an honourable prince as the Prince of
Delhi
Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders w ...
.
Death and succession
![MubarakAliKhan](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/MubarakAliKhan.jpg)
Nawab Nazim Mubarak ud-Daulah died on 6 September 1793. He was succeeded by his son,
Baber Ali Khan
Sayyid Babar Ali Khan Bahadur ( bn, বাবর আলী খান; died 28 April 1810) was the Nawab of Bengal and Bihar. He succeeded to the Nawab's ''Masnad'' (throne) after his father, Mubarak Ali Khan (Nawab of Bengal) died on 6 Septem ...
after his death.
Marriage
Principal wives
The following are the principal wives of Nawab Nazim Mubarak Ali Khan:
Mut‘ah wives
The following are the
mut‘ah wives of Nawab Nazim Mubarak Ali Khan:
Children
The following is the list of the children of Nawab Nazim Mubarak Ali Khan:
See also
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Nawabs of Bengal
The Nawab of Bengal ( bn, বাংলার নবাব) was the hereditary ruler of Bengal Subah in Mughal India. In the early 18th-century, the Nawab of Bengal was the ''de facto'' independent ruler of the three regions of Bengal, Bihar, ...
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List of rulers of Bengal
This is a list of rulers of Bengal. For much of its history, Bengal was split up into several independent kingdoms, completely unifying only several times. In ancient times, Bengal consisted of the kingdoms of Pundra, Suhma, Vanga, Samatata a ...
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History of Bengal
The history of Bengal is intertwined with the history of the broader Indian subcontinent and the surrounding regions of South Asia and Southeast Asia. It includes modern-day Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal and Assam's Karimganj ...
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History of Bangladesh
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History of India
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Shia Islam in India
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External links
Site dedicated to Nawab Nazim Mubarak Ali Khan, better known as Mubarak ud-Daulah
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1759 births
1793 deaths
Nawabs of Bengal
18th-century Indian monarchs