Shuja ul-Mulk (Hero of the country) Hashim ud-Daula (Sword of the state) Mahabat Jang (Horror in War) Nawab of Bengal
Nawab Nazim of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa
Reign
29 April 1740 – March 1751
Predecessor
Sarfaraz Khan
Successor
Himself (as Nawab of Bengal and Bihar) (Raghoji I in Orissa)
Nawab Nazim of Bengal and Bihar
Reign
March 1751 – 9 April 1756
Successor
Siraj ud-Daulah
Born
1676 Deccan Plateau, Mughal Empire
Died
9 April 1756(1756-04-09) (aged 79–80) Murshidabad, Bengal, Mughal Empire
Burial
Khushbagh, West Bengal, India
Spouse
Sharfunnesa
Issue
Ghaseti Begum
Maimuna Begum
Amina Begum
Names
Shuja ul-Mulk Hashim ud-Daula Mahabat Jang Mirza Muhammad Alivardi Khan
Father
Mirza Muhammad Madani (A Native Deccani)
Mother
A descendant of the Afshar tribe
Religion
Shia Islam[1][2]
Military career
Allegiance
Mughal Empire
Service/branch
Nawab of Bengal
Rank
Nawab
Alivardi Khan (1671 – 9 April 1756) was the Nawab of Bengal from 1740 to 1756. He toppled the Nasiri dynasty of Nawabs by defeating Sarfaraz Khan in 1740 and assumed power himself.
During much of his reign Alivardi encountered frequent Maratha raids under Raghuji Bhonsle, culminating in the surrender of the province of Orissa in a peace settlement in 1751. He also faced separatist rebellions in Bihar as well as a revolt from his grandson Siraj ud-Daulah, though these were suppressed.
Alivardi spent the latter part of his reign rebuilding Bengal. He was a patron of the arts and resumed the policies of Murshid Quli Khan. He maintained a politically neutral stance with the European powers in the subcontinent and prevented any infighting amongst them in his dominions. He was succeeded by Siraj ud-Daulah in 1756.
^Rizvi, Saiyid Athar Abbas (1986). A Socio-intellectual History of the Isnā ʼAsharī Shīʼīs in India: 16th to 19th century A.D. Vol. 2. Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers. pp. 46–47. OCLC 15406211. Ghulām Husayn Tabātabā'ī's account of 'Alīwardī's death reinforces the suggestion that he was a Shī'ī.
^Rieck, Andreas (2016). The Shias of Pakistan: An Assertive and Beleaguered Minority. Oxford University Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-19-061320-4.
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