Mir Jumla II (1591 – 30 March 1663) was a prominent subahdar of Bengal under the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb. Contents 1Early life 2Mughal maritime trade 3Career in the Mughal Imperial Court 4Northeastern frontier expedition 5Jungle warfare and counter-insurgency campaign 6Death and legacy 7See also 8Notes 9References Early life Mir Jumla was born in Iran, the son of an oil merchant. In his
Sugarcane is the primary cash crop among farmers of the western Maharashtra region. The sugarcane is mostly sold to sugar mills for sugar production. Majority of these mills are cooperatives owned by the sugarcane growers. Solapur district has highest number of sugar factories in Maharashtra. Contents 1History 2Sugar cooperatives and State politics 3Present scenario 4See also 5References
Manual labour (in British English, manual labor in American English) or manual work is physical work done by humans, in contrast to labour by machinesand working animals. It is most literally work done with the hands (the word “manual” comes from the Latin word for hand) and, by figurative extension, it is work done with any of the muscles and bones of the body. For
The Malwa Subah was one of the original twelve Subahs (imperial provinces) of the Mughal Empire, including Gondwana, from 1568-1743. Its seat was Ujjain. It bordered Berar, Kandesh, Ahmadnagar (Deccan), Gujarat, Ajmer, Agra and Allahabad subahs as well as the independent and tributary chiefdoms in the east. Contents 1History 2Administrative divisions 3Mughal Subahdars (Governors) of Malwa (1561 – 1736) 4See also
Maktab (in Arabic alphabet مكتب) is used primarily in Dari Persian in Afghanistan as an equivalent term to school, including both primary and secondary schools. Kuttab in Afghanistan refers to only elementary schools. The famous Persian Islamic philosopher and teacher, Ibn Sina (known as Avicenna in the West) used the word maktab in the same sense. In the 11th century, in one of his books, he wrote a chapter dealing with the maktab entitled “The Role of
Makli Necropolis (Urdu: مکلی کا شہرِ خموشاں; Sindhi: مڪلي جو مقام) is one of the largest funerary sites in the world, spread over an area of 10 kilometres near the city of Thatta, in the Pakistani province of Sindh. The site houses approximately 500,000 to 1 million tombs built over the course of a 400 year period. Makli Necropolis features several large funerary monuments belonging to royalty,
Bidar Bakht Mahmud Shah Bahadur Jahan Shah was the Mughal Emperor for a brief period in 1788 after Shah Alam II was deposed by Ghulam Qadir. Mahmud Shah Bahadur was the son of a former Mughal Emperor, Ahmad Shah Bahadur. He himself became emperor for a brief period in 1788 as a puppet of Ghulam Qadir, after Shah Alam II had been deposed and
The Mahabat Khan Mosque (Pashto and Urdu: مہابت خان مسجد); (Hindko: مہابت خان مسیت) sometimes spelt Mohabbat Khan Mosque, is a 17th-century Mughal-era mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan. The mosque was built in 1630, and named after the Mughal governor of Peshawar, Nawab Mahabat Khan bin Ali Mardan Khan, known alternatively as Mahabat Khan and Ali Mardan Khan. The mosque’s white marble façade is considered to be one of Peshawar’s most
Lustre (British English) or luster (American English; see spelling differences) is the way light interacts with the surface of a crystal, rock, or mineral. The word traces its origins back to the Latin lux, meaning “light”, and generally implies radiance, gloss, or brilliance. A range of terms are used to describe lustre, such as earthy, metallic, greasy, and silky. Similarly, the term vitreous (derived from the Latin for glass, vitrum) refers to
Losar Baoli (the Losar Stepwell) is a stepwell in the Margalla Hills of the Islamabad Capital Territory. Near the town of Shah Allah Dittain the Potohar Plateau, the area was a passageway for caravans and armies moving along the east–west direction. History The Losar Baoli, near the village Losar Sharfu Tehsil Taxila, is thought to have been constructed by the Emperor Sher Shah Suri to facilitate the