The Malwa Subah was one of the original twelve Subahs (imperial provinces) of the

Mughal Empire The Mughal Empire was an early-modern empire that controlled much of South Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries. Quote: "Although the first two Timurid emperors and many of their noblemen were recent migrants to the subcontinent, the d ...

, including Gondwana, from 1568-1743. Its seat was

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. It bordered Berar, Kandesh, Ahmadnagar (Deccan), Gujarat, Ajmer, Agra and Allahabad subahs as well as the independent and tributary chiefdoms in the east.

History

Malwa was earlier an independent sultanate. Its last ruler Baz Bahadur was defeated and its capital Mandu was conquered in 1562 by the

Mughal Emperor The Mughal emperors ( fa, , Pādishāhān) were the supreme heads of state of the Mughal Empire on the Indian subcontinent, mainly corresponding to the modern countries of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. The Mughal rulers styled t ...

Akbar’s army led by Abdullah Khan, the Uzbeg. He was appointed its first governor. In 1564 he was replaced by Qara Bahadur Khan. In 1568 it became a subah of Mughal empire. One of its last governors was Sawai Jai Singh, who was the governor of the Subah for three times, from 1714-17, from 1729-30 and from 28 September 1732 to 4 August 1737. The Mughal hold on Malwa ended in 1743, when

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obtained the formal grant of ''Naib-subahdari'' (deputy governorship) of Malwa.

Administrative divisions

Malwa Subah comprised 12 '' sarkars'' (districts): Ujjain, Chanderi, Raisen, Garha Mandla, Sarangpur, Bijagarh, Mandu, Handia, Nandurbar, Mandsaur, Gagron and Kotri-Parava. These ''sarkar''s are further divided into 301 '' parganas''. The city of Ujjain was the capital of the subah.Abul Fazl-i-Allami (1949, reprint 1993). ''Ain-i-Akbari'', Vol.II (English tr. by H.S. Jarrett, rev. by J.N. Sarkar), Calcutta: The Asiatic Society, pp.206-31 The ''sarkar''s (districts) and the ''pargana''s (tehsils) of Malwa Subah were:

Mughal Subahdars (Governors) of Malwa (1561 - 1737)

Notes

{{reflist Mughal subahs History of Malwa History of Ujjain 1568 establishments in India

History

Administrative divisions

Mughal Subahdars (Governors) of Malwa (1561 - 1737)

See also

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