Ghulam Hussain Khan also known as Ghulam Husain Khan Tabatabai (1727/28-1797/98) was an 18th century Indian historian and scholar-administrator from Delhi who later settled in Azimabad (Patna).[1][2][3] He is the writer of the famous book Seir Mutaqherin (سیر المتاخرین; lit.'Review of Modern Times'), one of the notable contemporary historical accounts on the late Mughal Empire.
He is considered to be among a slew of Muslim nobles whose families had left Delhi and settled in Azimabad.[4]
Life
Ghulam Husain's ancestors were originally from Iraq. His father Hidayat Khan accompanied the Nawab of Bengal, Alivardi Khan to Azimabad where he was appointed subadar.[5]
Ghulam Hussain Khan left Delhi after Nader Shah's Sack of Delhi and moved to the court of his cousin, Alivardi Khan, the Nawab of Bengal, in Murshidabad.[6]
Khan was also related to the next nawab, Siraj ud-Daulah, either through Siraj being Alivardi's grandson[7] or in another way.[8]
Charles W. J. Withers described him as a "high-born Bihari official" whose Persian father had served the Mughal Emperor and whose mother was related to Alivardi Khan."[9]
External links
The Siyar-ul-Mutakherin: a history of the Mahomedan power in India during the last century / by Mir Gholam Hussein-Khan; revised from the translation of Haji Mustefa, and collated with the Persian original, by John Briggs. (1832) https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009726806
