Qasim Khan Juvayni Nawab was a Mughal general and nobleman of the court of the Mughal Emperors Jahangir and Shah Jahan and held the rank of 5,000. He was a native of Sabzwar and was married to Manija Begam the sister of Nur Jahan consequently he was sometimes in jest called by the officers of the court Qasim Khan Manija. He is the author of a Diwan and his poetical name is Qasim. He succeeded Fidai Khan in the government of Bengal in the first year of Shah Jahan in 1628.

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  • Qasim Khan Juvayni Nawab was a Mughal general and nobleman of the court of the Mughal Emperors Jahangir and Shah Jahan and held the rank of 5,000. He was a native of Sabzwar and was married to Manija Begam the sister of Nur Jahan consequently he was sometimes in jest called by the officers of the court Qasim Khan Manija. He is the author of a Diwan and his poetical name is Qasim. He succeeded Fidai Khan in the government of Bengal in the first year of Shah Jahan in 1628. He slew about 10,000 Portuguese men and women and drove the rest from Hooghly of which place he took possession but died three days afterwards in the year 1631. He had built a very grand house at Agra of which no traces now remain.
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  • Qasim Khan Juvayni Nawab was a Mughal general and nobleman of the court of the Mughal Emperors Jahangir and Shah Jahan and held the rank of 5,000. He was a native of Sabzwar and was married to Manija Begam the sister of Nur Jahan consequently he was sometimes in jest called by the officers of the court Qasim Khan Manija. He is the author of a Diwan and his poetical name is Qasim. He succeeded Fidai Khan in the government of Bengal in the first year of Shah Jahan in 1628.
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  • Qasim Khan Juvayni
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