Asadullah Khan Tabrizi
116. Asadullah Khan, of Tabriz.
His name is not given in the Maasir and the Tabaqat.
An Asadullah Khan is mentioned in the Akbarnamah (end of the 12th
year). He served under Khan Zaman (No. 13), and commanded the town of Zamania
(p. 320, l. 4 from below). After Khan Zaman’s death, he wished to make over the
town to Sulaiman, king of Bengal. But Munim (No. 11) sent a man to him to
convince him of his foolishness, and took quickly possession of the town, so
that the Afghans under their leader, Khan Khanan Lodi, had to withdraw. This incident,
however, brought the Afghans into contact with Munim; and as they found him a
tractable man, a meeting was arranged, which took place in the neighbourhood of
Patna. This meeting was of importance, inasmuch as Khan Khanan Lodi, on the
part of Sulaiman, promised to read the Khutbah, and to strike coins in
Akbar’s name. Bengal therefore enjoyed peace till the death of Sulaiman in 9801.
The Akbarnamah mentions another officer of a
similar name, Asadullah Turkman. He was mentioned above on p. 382.
The Ain-i Akbari by Abul Fazl ’Allami, translated from the original
Persian, by H. Blochmann, M.A. Vol. I. ― Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1873,
p. 427.
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