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Ghazi ud-Din Khan Feroze Jung

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Mir Shahâb ud-Din better known as Ghazi ud-Din Khan Feroze Jung was the son of Kilich Khan II the Sadr us Sudur of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb and was raised to the rank of an Amir with the initial titles of Ghazi ud-Din Bahadur Khan and later Feroze Jung after his father's death. He was one of the commanders at the Siege of Golkonda Fort in 1686 when Emperor Aurangzeb personally conquered Golkonda Sultanate taking the last Sultan Abul Hasan Qutb Shah prisoner.

He was made Subahdar or Governor of Gujarat Province during the reign of Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah I. He died in Ahmedabad in 1710 and was taken to Delhi where he was buried in the yard of the college built by him infront of the Ajmeri Gate.[1]


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  1. ^ An oriental biographical dictionary: founded on materials collected by the late Thomas William Beale;By Thomas William Beale, Henry George Keene,Edition: 2,Published by W.H. Allen, 1894,Original from the University of California
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