Mutawassil Khan

Mutawassil Khan titled Rustam Jang Bahadur, was a Mughal general in the Deccan. He descended from a powerful Mughal aristocratic family, with his father being a prominent noble of Aurangzeb Alamgir and his grandfather one of the most famous Mughal Viziers. Mutawassil Khan rose to power under the patronage of his father-in-law who was also his maternal cousin Chin Qilich Qamaruddin Khan, Nizam-ul-Mulk, accompanying him in his campaigns in the Deccan and distinguishing himself especially at the Battle of Shakar Kheda.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

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^ Khan, Yusuf Husain (1963). The First Nizām: The Life and Times of Nizāmu'l-Mulk Āsaf Jāh I. Asia Publishing House.
^ Singh, Nagendra Kr (2001). Encyclopaedia of Muslim Biography: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh. A.P.H. Publishing Corporation. ISBN 978-81-7648-235-6. Mutawassil Khan Bahadur Rustam Jang, son of Hifz Ullah, son of Sa'd Ullah Khan Shahjahani
^ Awrangābādī, Shāhnavāz Khān (1979). The Maāt̲h̲ir-ul-umarā: Being Biographies of the Muḥammadan and Hindu Officers of the Timurid Sovereigns of India from 1500 to about 1780 A.D. Janaki Prakashan. p. 647.
^ Rao, Vasant D. (1968). Studies in Indian History: Dr. A. G. Pawar Felicitation Volume. Y. P. Pawar. p. 241.

[1] Khan, Yusuf Husain (1963). The First Nizām: The Life and Times of Nizāmu'l-Mulk Āsaf Jāh I. Asia Publishing House.

[2] Singh, Nagendra Kr (2001). Encyclopaedia of Muslim Biography: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh. A.P.H. Publishing Corporation. ISBN 978-81-7648-235-6. Mutawassil Khan Bahadur Rustam Jang, son of Hifz Ullah, son of Sa'd Ullah Khan Shahjahani

[3] Awrangābādī, Shāhnavāz Khān (1979). The Maāt̲h̲ir-ul-umarā: Being Biographies of the Muḥammadan and Hindu Officers of the Timurid Sovereigns of India from 1500 to about 1780 A.D. Janaki Prakashan. p. 647.

[4] Rao, Vasant D. (1968). Studies in Indian History: Dr. A. G. Pawar Felicitation Volume. Y. P. Pawar. p. 241.

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