Haji Hassan Khan

Haji Hassan Khan
Religion	Islam
Military career
Allegiance	Mughal Empire
Service/branch	Nawab of Masulipatam
Rank	Mansabdar, Faujdar, Subedar, Nawab
Battles/wars	Carnatic Wars

Haji Hassan Khan was Nawab of Masulipatam. He was second son of Nawab Muhammad Taqi Khan Bahadur who in turn was Nawab of Masulipatam.

His official name was Nizam ud-Daula, Nawab Hasan Ali Khan Bahadur, Nawab of Masulipatam.

He entered the Nizam's service and appointed to a large mansab. A firman from him authorized the French Representative Fouquet, then chief of the Company at Machilipatnam to set up a loge at Yanaon in the year 1731.

He became faujdar of the Northern Circars between 1758 and 1765. Finally he surrendered the government to the HEIC in return for a substantial pension and jagirs. He was greatest of all nawabs of masulipatam.

He died at Masulipatam in 1771.

* He ascended throne sometime before 1731.

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