Subah (Province)
The Arabic term Subah ( Urdu : صوبہ) was used to designate a province in the Mughal Empire . The governor or governor had the title of subahdar .
history
In the years 1572 to 1580, the Mughal Mughal Akbar I originally created 12 Subahs; in the years 1596 to 1601 3 more were added. Under his successors Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb , their number was increased to a total of 22. The British initially largely adopted the political and administrative structure of the Mughal empire, but gradually transformed it.
# | Province (Subah) | Capital | year | Mogul |
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1 | Kabul (province) | Kabul | Akbar I. | |
2 | Lahore (province) | Lahore | ||
3 | Multan (province) | Multan | ||
4th | Ajmer (province) | Ajmer | ||
5 | Gujarat Province | Ahmedabad | ||
6th | Delhi (Province) | Delhi | ||
7th | Agra (province) | Agra | ||
8th | Malwa (province) | Ujjain | ||
9 | Awadh ( Oudh ) | Faizabad , Lucknow | ||
10 | Allahabad (Province) | Allahabad | ||
11 | Bihar (province) | Patna | ||
12 | Bengal (Province) | Tanda , Rajmahal , Dhaka , Murshidabad | ||
13 | Berar (province) | Achalpur | 1596 | |
14th | Khandesh (province) | Burhanpur | 1601 | |
15th | Ahmednagar (Province) | Ahmednagar , Daulatabad , Aurangabad | 1601 | |
16 | Orissa (province) | Cutack | Shah Jahan | |
17th | Kashmir Province | Srinagar | ||
18th | Thatta (Province) (Sindh) | Thatta | ||
19th | Bidar (province) | Bidar | 1656 | |
20th | Bijapur (Province) | Bijapur | 1684 | Aurangzeb |
21st | Golkonda (Province) (later Hyderabad (Province) ) | Hyderabad | 1687 | |
22nd | Sira (province) | Sira | 1687 |
Shah Jahan founded other provinces, but they did not exist for long: Kandahar (1638-1648), Telangana (1636-1657), Balkh (1646-1647), Badakhshan (1646-1647).
literature
- Jadunath Sarkar : Mughal Administration . 5. revised Calcutta 1963
- VD Mahajan: History of Medieval India. Part II. S. Chand Publ., New Delhi 2007, ISBN 81-219-0364-5 , p. 236 f.
Web links
- Mughal Empire, management (English)