Question

whoare turani and irani nobles

Answer 1

The Akbar Nama of Abul Fazl provides detailed information about the recruitments of imperial officials. The corps of officers, known as nobility, in the Mughal Empire was recruited from diverse ethnic and religious groups in order to prevent any faction that would challenge the state .The imperial officers were described by the court historians as a bouquet of flowers(guldasta).During the rule of Akbar, for the imperial service, Iranian and Turani nobles were recruited. The two groups of Indian nobles in Mughal Empire

 Two ruling groups of Indian origin entered the imperial service from 1560 onwards: The Rajaputs and the Indian Muslims(Shai khzadas). The first to join was a Rajput chief,Raja Bharmal Kachhwaha of Amber,to whose daughter Akbar got married. Aurangazeb appointed Rajputs to high positions,and under him the Marathas accounted for a sizebale number within the body of officers. Ranks of the holders of government offices .The recruited officers for the service in the Mughal Empire were given ranks (mansabs) with two numerical designations.

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Answer 2

 

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 A Brief Examination of the Irani Nobility: The Presence of the Qizilbash

The restoration of the Timurid Empire in the Indian subcontinent by Padishah Humayun (1508-1556 CE) in 1555 CE had finally confirmed the eastward direction that the power of the Timurids wouldnow be expended against. This expansionist policy was partly driven by the Timurids inability to restoretheir hereditary lands in Central Asia and partly as a result of the

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 policy that saw thestrengthening and expansion of their empire tied to the continual incorporation of the local nobility andmore importantly the foreign notables. These foreign notables specifically had arrived from areasdesignated by contemporary writers as Iran and Turan. Upon arrival they had quickly begun toincorporate themselves into the ever expanding bureaucratic or militaristic machine which enabled thecontinuation of this expansion. This movement of able bodies into the Mughal Empire was not onlyfuelled by the opportunities that were not available elsewhere but also reflected the innumerableprospects that allowed the exploitation and generation of a tremendous amount of personal wealth.Therefore, the best and brightest found themselves most drawn into this empire

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 orbit.It should be noted that these foreign nobles not only included those that were within the regionitself such as the Afghans, who were left over from previous dynasties, but also included the nobilitythat were later incorporated from its newly conquered regions such as the Deccan which had its ownclass of foreign nobility. Although the incorporation of the Deccani nobility had begun under the reign ofthe Padishah Akbar (r. 1556-1605 CE) the importance of the foreign nobility was never overshadowed byeither the local of the Deccani notables. This trend continued well into the reign of the Padishah ShahJahan (1569-1666 CE). The main focus of this paper, however, is the examination of a specific subset ofthose notables who were identified as Irani. It is the belief of this paper that this subset of foreignnobility should be termed as the Qizilbash who had their own unique reasons for leaving the SafavidEmpire. They are a unique case of immigration to the Mughal Empire and are subsequently different