Sahib Muhammad Ja'faar ud-Din Mirza Mridha (born 1876 in Bengal, died 1921 in Natore) was a

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lord in Bengal, British India who served as the second

Zamindar of Natore Zamindars of Natore were influential aristocratic Bengali Zamindars (rent-receiving landholders), who owned large estates in what is today Natore District in Bangladesh . They contributed to the development of East Bengal and later Bangladesh t ...

from the House of Singra and Natore and the "'' Mridha''" ( Defense Minister) under the Maharajas of Rajshahi.

Family

He was born in 1876 as the oldest child and first son of Muhammad Zaheer Shah Mirza Sahib, the patriarch of the aristocratic Singranatore family in Mirza Mahal palace in Natore and educated privately in Persian, Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, and

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before attending the

Rajshahi Collegiate School Rajshahi Collegiate School ( bn, রাজশাহী কলেজিয়েট স্কুল) in Boalia Thana in the center of Rajshahi, a city in northern Bangladesh, is the oldest school in the country. History After completing MA in Phi ...

. He married twice, firstly Humaira Begum and the Abeeda Sultana and had three sons and a daughter.

Biography and military affairs (1870-1921)

His father crushed the Pabna Peasant Uprisings in 1871 for which he was given tracts of land with the ownership made hereditary as a ''

Madhyasvatva Madhyasvatva (literally meaning "Subinfeudation") was a term used to denote the intermediate rights (lesser nobles, or tributaries to higher-ranking lords) that developed in Bengal following the Permanent Settlement Act of 1793 by Lord Cornwallis ...

''. After the death of his father, he ascended to his position and rights as a '' zamindar''. His father had served under Maharaja Chondronath Roy of Natore and maintained 25 horses for 30 lathial (

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) and three elephants.

Death

He died in 1921 of

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in Natore Sadar, British India.

Later successors and legacy

The estate which he inherited was extended outwards and was made up of fragmented lands belonging to the declining Ruling family of Natore, which was at one point the second largest estate in all of Bengal after the Maharajas of Burdwan. His son,

Jalaluddin Mirza Sahibzada Mīrzā Mu'hammad Jalāl ud-Dīn Mridha Sahib, better known as Jalaluddin Mirza (1898–1975), was a Bengali Indian aristocrat in the erstwhile British Empire who served as the fifth and last hereditary Zamindar of Natore from the Hou ...

inherited the position after his death in Bengal.

Bibliography

External links

The Singranatore family
listed among the Zamindars of Bengal at

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