Isa Khan Main, also written Mabin or Mohin, was a

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warlord of the cis-Sutlej territory in the

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. He is credited with the killing of the Mughal prince

Azam Shah Qutb-ud-Din Muhammad Azam (28 June 1653 – 20 June 1707), commonly known as Azam Shah, was briefly the Mughal emperor who reigned from 14 March 1707 to 20 June 1707. He was the third son of the sixth Mughal emperor Aurangzeb and his chief cons ...

during the

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, and for establishing an independent territory that defied Mughal authority. Isa Khan belonged to the Main

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tribe of the

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. He collected an armed retinue, grabbing the land of others and plundering trade caravans. He constructed the Isa Khan Kot. During the Battle of Jajau, he served

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and struck Azam Shah with a bullet to the head. For his military services in helping enthrone

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, he was made a ''mansabdar'' of 5000, and the deputy ''Faujdar'' of the Doab. However, he forcibly collected rent for himself and the imperial officers were not able to collect from the ''jagirs'' in the region. In 1718, he rose in rebellion against

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, instigated by Khan-i Dauran. He gained control of the land extending from Badresa at the

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to his headquarters at Tihara along the Sutlej. He killed Kapura Brar, the chief of

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and an ancestor of the dynasty of the

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. He plundered the caravans of Delhi and Lahore.

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