Isma'il Beg
BornHamadan
Allegiance Mughal Empire
Years of service1767-1788
RankGeneral
Commands heldGeneral of the Mughal Army
Battles/warsDelhi Rebellion 1788

Mirza Ismail Beg Hamdani (died March 1794) was a Mughal Commander of Persian origin. Son of Mirza Munim Beg and a kinsman of Mirza Najaf Khan, he along with his family fled Persia at the rise of Nadir Shah.[1]

Biography

Arriving in India many members of his family including him rose to high positions in the Mughal Empire. Initially a stalwart of the Marathas he would defect in 1790, in order to check the rising power of Mahadaji Shinde.[2][3] He would be defeated by the Marathas at the Battle of Patan whereafter he would flee to the Rajput kingdom of Jaipur and thereafter to Jodhpur.[4] He would go to Kanaud, later known as Mahendragarh and attempt to marry the widow of Najaf Quli Khan. Despite her initial approval the latter would renege. Ismail Beg fled to Madhogarh and when the Marathas received this intel, Khande Rao would march against Madhogarh where Ismail Beg would be captured in 1792 and imprisoned thereafter in Agra Fort by the Maratha general Mahadaji Shinde, only to be put to death by the orders of Mughal emperor Shah Alam II in March 1794.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Gupta, R.K. Rajasthan Through the Ages. p. 252.
  2. ↑ Sen, Sallendra Nath. Anglo-Maratha Relations, 1785-96. p. 153.
  3. ↑ Pandey, Uma Shanker. European Adventurers in North India: 1750–1803.
  4. ↑ Gupta, R.K. Rajasthan Through the Ages. p. 249.
  5. ↑ Mittal, Sattish Chandra. Haryana, a Historical Perspective. p. 15.
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