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 Dictionary of Indian Biography G to I

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Date transcribed2011-04-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surnames  Ghulam Hussein Khan Tabataba    
First Name(s)  Syad    
Year of Birth  ?    
Year of Death  ?    
Entry  Muhammadan nobleman : his maternal ancestors were Syads : Zainul-abidin was his maternal grandfather : related, as a cousin, to Aliverdi of Bihar : son of Hidayat Ali Khan, a Deputy Governor of Bihar : born at Shahjahanabad : Mir Munshi, or Secretary, of the Mogul Emperor : resided at the Court of the Nawab of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa : representative of Mir Kasim {q.v.) at Calcutta, until removed : served under the British : befriended by General Goddard, Resident at Chunarghar : entered, with permission, the Nawab of Oudh's service for a time : left it : wrote the Siyar-almuta' akhkhirin, a "" Review of Modern Times,"" i.e. The ""Manners of the Moderns, the Chronicle of the Decay of the Mogul Empire and Muhammadan Domination of India, during the reigns of the seven last emperors of Hindustan"    
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