- male, deceased (1837)
- Akbar Shah II (1760 - 1837), also known as Mirza Akbar, was the second-to-last of the Mughal emperors of India. He held the title from 1806 to...
- male, deceased (1663)
- Mir Jumla (1591-1663 CE) was a prominent subahdar (governor) of Bengal in Eastern India under the Indian Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb. An Iranian by...
- male
- Mir Qasim (also spelt Mir Kasim (d. 1777) was the Nawab of Bengal from 1760 to 1764. He was installed as Nawab by the British East India Company...
- male, deceased (1775)
- Ahmed Shah Bahadur (1725-1775) was born in 1725 to Mohammed Shah. He succeeded his father to the throne as the 15th Mughal Emperor in 1748 at the...
- male, deceased (1662)
- Murad Baksh (died 1661) was the youngest son of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan and empress Mumtaz Mahal. He proclaimed himself emperor after reports...
- male
- Mirza Ghiyas Beg was an important official during the rule of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir. He was the father of Jahangir's wife, Mehrunissa, as...
- male
- Adham Khan was a general of Akbar. Born to Maham Anga, he thus became the foster brother of Akbar. After the dismissal of Bairam Khan, he was...
- male
- Ali Vardi Khan was the independent Nawab or ruler of Bengal between 1740 and 1756. He was a Shiite Muslim and his forefathers were originally from...
- male, deceased (1620)
- Firishta or Ferishta (c. 1560-c. 1620), given name "Muhammad Qasim Hindu Shah" was a Persian historian. Firishta was born at Astrabad, on the...
- female
- Ebba Koch is an architectural historian, an art historian, and a cultural historian; presently she is a professor at the Institute of Art History...
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