page_title: Subedar
hierarchical_section_title: Subedar
caption_attribution_description: Watercolour of the Muharram Festival, part of the Hyde collection, by an unknown artist working in the Murshidabad style, c. 1795. Inscribed on the back in pencil: 'The Nubob of Moorshedd.- at Prayers'; in ink: 'The Nawaub of Morshedabad at Prayers, a Night Scene.' Asaf al-Daula, Nawab of Awadh from 1775 to1797, ordered the construction of the Great Imambara in 1784 for the purpose of celebrating the Muslim festival of Muharram. The Muharram festival is in commemoration of the imams Ali, Hasan, and Hussein. This festival starts on the 1st day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, and lasts for 10 days. In this view, the Nawab is shown listening to the 'maulvi' reading from the scriptures in the hall of the Imanbara. Subsequently, the building was used as a mausoleum for Asaf ud-Daula upon his death in 1797.
context_page_description: Subedar is a historical civil or military rank originally relating to a senior official of the Mughal Empire who governed an assigned "Subah". Under the British rule in India, "subedar" was the designation accorded to an Indian military officer of a rank equivalent to that of captain.
  Today the rank is maintained by the Indian Army and Pakistani Army.
context_section_description: Subedar (Urdu: صوبیدار‎) is a historical civil or military rank originally relating to a senior official of the Mughal Empire who governed an assigned "Subah" ("province"). Under the British rule in India, "subedar" was the designation accorded to an Indian military officer of a rank equivalent to that of captain. 
  Today the rank is maintained by the Indian Army and Pakistani Army.
caption: Mughal ranks included the nawab, subahdar, mansabdar, sawar, and sepoy.
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