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Sher Muhammad Khan
Nawab of Malerkotla From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sher Muhammad Khan was the Nawab of Malerkotla from 1672 to 1712.
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Ancestry
The Malerkotla family are Sherwani Afghans and came from Kabul in 1467 as officials of the Delhi emperors. Their ancestor Sheikh Sadruddin was a Sufi saint of much celebrity in his time and received a dowry of sixty-eight villages near Ludhiana, when he married the daughter of Sultan Bahlul Khan. After this the Sheikh contracted a second wealthy marriage into the family of a local Rajput magnate. The Princess's descendants were the keepers of his shrine: the Rajputni's descendants became the Nawabs and Chiefs of the State. He left three sons Hasan, Isa and Musa. Hasan by the Lodi Princess, and Isa and Musa by the local lady. The Malerkotla family is descended from Isa.[1][2] The title of Nawab was conferred in 1657 upon Sher Muhammad Khan's grandfather Bazid Khan, the 5th from Sadruddin, by Aurangzeb. He built in 1657 a town Kotla near Maler, 30 miles south of Ludhiana and added to his estates.
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Life
Sher Muhammad Khan came into the possession of the jagir after his father Firuz Khan's death. He was a prominent general of his time, and in his days began that incessant fight with the Sikhs, under Gurus Tegh Bahadur and Gobind Singh. He attacked them at Chamkaur under Guru Tegh Bahadur, where they were put to the rout. The Guru was taken prisoner and sent to Delhi where he was executed. Sher Muhammad Khan secured many jagirs from Aurangzeb by helping him in a number of expeditions. He helped the Mughal forces against Guru Gobind Singh in the battle of Chamkaur in 1705. He protested against the proposed death to be given to Guru Gobind Singh's two younger sons, Zorawar Singh and Fateh Singh, by Wazir Khan.[3] He had eight sons. His successor was his son Ghulam Husayn Khan. Sher Muhammad Khan died in 1712.
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