Mir Jumla II
| Mir Jumla II | |
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| Mu'azzam Khan, Khan-i-Khanan, Sipahsalar and Yar-i-Wafahdar | |
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| Born | 1591 Ardistan, Ispahan |
| Died | 30 March 1663 Khizrpur |
Mir Jumla II (1591 – 30 March 1663) (Urdu: مير جملا) was a prominent subahdar of Bengal in Eastern India under the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb.
Mir Jumla was born in Iran, the son of a oil merchant. In his early age Mir Jumla found a job of a clerk under a diamond merchant who had connections with the Kingdom of Golkonda in Southern India (near present day city of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India). The region was famous for its diamond mines. Later he came to India and started his own diamond business. He got involved in maritime commercial endeavours and achieved success.
Mir Jumla entered the service of the Sultan of Golconda and rose to the position of Vizier (Prime Minister) of the kingdom. He met and befriended the French traveller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier during this time. Tavernier was a pioneer of European trade with India and Mir Jumla is mentioned prominently in his book Les Six Voyages de J. B. Tavernier (1676).
Mir Jumla, who in the 1640s had his own ships and organised merchant fleets that sailed throughout Surat, Thatta, Arakan, Ayuthya, Balasore, Aceh, Melaka, Johore, Bantam, Makassar, Ceylon, Bandar Abbas, Mecca, Jeddah, Basra, Aden, Masqat, Mocha and the Maldives.
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