Mir Jafar
Syed Mir Jafar Ali Khan Bahadur (Bengali:
সৈয়দ
মীর
জাফর আলী খান বাহাদুর)
(Persian:
سید میر جعفر علی خان بہادر)
(– 5 February 1765) was the first dependent Nawab of Bengal with support from the British East India Company.
He was the second son of Sayyid Ahmad Najafi.
His rule is widely considered the start of British imperialism in India and was a key step in the eventual British domination of vast areas of the subcontinent.
Mir Jafar served as the commander of Bengali forces under Siraj ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, but betrayed him during the Battle of Plassey and succeeded him after the British victory in 1757.
Mir Jafar received military support from the British East India Company until 1760, but failed to satisfy various British demands.
In 1758, Robert Clive discovered that Jafar had made a treaty with the Dutch at Chinsurah through his agent Khoja Wajid.
Dutch ships of war were also seen in the River Hooghly.
Circumstances led to the Battle of Chinsurah.
British company official Henry Vansittart proposed that since Jafar was unable to cope with the difficulties, Mir Qasim, Jafar's son-in-law, should act as Deputy Subahdar.
In October 1760, the company forced him to abdicate in favor of Qasim.
However, Qasim's independent spirit and plans to force the East India company out of his dominion led to his overthrow, and Jafar was restored as the Nawab in 1763 with the support of the company.
Mir Qasim however refused to accept this and went to war against the company.
Jafar ruled until his death on 5 February 1765 and lies buried at the Jafarganj Cemetery in Murshidabad, West Bengal, India.
Sukhawat Ali Khan
Sukhawat Ali Khan( born 1950), son of Indian- Pakistani vocalist Ustad Salamat Ali Khan and nephew of Nazakat Ali Khan, is a classical singer of Sham Chaurasia gharana tradition, as well as a performer of North Indian and Pakistani classical music and related folk music.
He began singing and playing the harmonium at age seven and has performed around the world.
He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where he performs in the world- fusion ensemble Shabaz( formerly the Ali Khan Band) with his sister Riffat Salamat and her husband Richard Michos.
About his heritage and music, Sukhawat Ali Khan has said: Sukhawat's music was recently licensed for use by Surrealist animators' The Hive of Dukes', who had recently heard Ali Khan's music online, for a Salvador Dalí- inspired cartoon called Living Evil.
Sukhawat is currently playing in two music ensembles in the San Francisco Bay Area:
Ji featuring Sukhawat Ali Khan( Real Tribal) and Baraka Moon.
Fateh Ali Khan (Qawwali singer)
Fateh Ali Khan was a classical singer and a Qawwali musician in the 1940s and 1950s.
He was born in Jalandhar, Punjab, British India in 1901.
Fateh Ali Khan was the father of Pakistani Qawwali musicians, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan.
Their family has an unbroken tradition of Qawwali, linked closely to the Sufi Chishti Order for over 600 years.
Barkat Ali Khan
Ustad Barkat Ali Khan( 1908 – 19 June 1963) was a Pakistani classical singer, younger brother of Bade Ghulam Ali Khan and elder brother of Mubarak Ali Khan, and belonged to the Patiala gharana of music.
Emperor Daigo
Daigo's reign spanned the years from 897 through 930.
He is named after his place of burial.
Najmuddin Ali Khan
Najm ud-din Ali Khan, better known as Najm-ud-Daulah (or Nazam-ud-Daulah) (
ca.
1747– 8 May 1766), was the Nawab of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa from 1765 to 1766.
He was the second son of Mir Jafar.
Najm-ud-Daulah was crowned as the Nawab following the death of his father Mir Jafar.
During his coronation he was only 15 years old.
He ascended to the throne on February 5, 1765.
In 1765 after the victory in the Battle of Buxar
the British had formally gained "Dewani" of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa from Shah Alam II.
The Nawab formally conferred this "Dewani" to the British on September 30, 1765.
Najmuddin died soon afterwards, on May 8, 1766, apparently from a fever caught at a formal party given at Murshidabad fort in honour of Robert Clive.
He was buried at Jafraganj Cemetery and was succeeded by his younger brother Nawab Nazim Najabat Ali Khan.
Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan
Farrukh Fateh Ali
Khan( December 25, 1952 – September 9, 2003) was a player of the harmonium in Qawwali and also was a member of a well- known family of Qawwali musicians.
He was the younger brother of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the son of Fateh Ali Khan, the nephew of Mubarak Ali Khan, and the father of Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.
Najabat Ali Khan
Sayyid Najabat Ali Khan Bahadur, born" Mir Phulwari"( 1750 – March 10, 1770), better known as Saif ud- Daulah succeeded his younger brother Nawab Nazim Najimuddin Ali Khan, after his death in 1766, as the Nawab Nazim of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa.
He was the third son of Mir Jafar by Munny Begum.
He was only seventeen when he was crowned as the Nawab.
He reigned under the regency of his mother and died of smallpox on March 10, 1770 during the Great Bengal famine of 1770.
Jawaad Ali Khan
Jawaad Ali Khan is a Hindustani classical vocalist of the Kasur Patiala Gharana.
He was trained in music by his father, Karamat Ali Khan, the elder son of Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, and from his uncle Munawar Ali Khan.
Jawaad Ali Khan started his musical career in the early 1980s.
He is an A- grade vocalist of All India Radio.
He has performed at almost every music conference of India with his elder brother Mazhar Ali Khan.
Ali Baksh Jarnail
Ustad Ali Baksh Jarnail Khan,( 1850–1920) was an Indian classical singer.
Together with his friend Fateh Ali Khan, he founded the Patiala Gharana in the 19th century.
They used to sing together as a team back then.
Patiala gharana has claimed to combine the musical traditions of Delhi gharana, Gwalior gharana and Jaipur- Atrauli Gharana.
Patiala gharana has many notable pupils including Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan( 1902– 1968), Malika Pukhraj( 1912 – 4 February 2004), Gauhar Jan( 1875 – 1930) and the renowned ghazal singer of Pakistan Ghulam Ali.
Ustad Ali Baksh Jarnail regularly sang with Fateh Ali Khan in late 19th century and early part of the 20th century.
They both were trained in music by Tanras Khan and Kalu Khan of Delhi gharana as well as Haddu Khan and Hassu Khan of Gwalior gharana.
Before the partition of India in 1947, Ali Baksh Jarnail was the court musician of the Maharaja in Patiala.
Ali Baksh Jarnail had one son, Ustad Akhtar Hussain( 1900 – 1972) who, then, had 3 sons Amanat Ali Khan( 1922 – 18 September 1974), Bade Fateh Ali Khan and Hamid Ali Khan who have been carrying the torch of Patiala gharana in Pakistan for many decades now.
In India, khyal Singers such as Bade Ghulam Ali Khan and Gohar Ali Khan had innovated syncretic" Patiala- Kasuri" styles.
Asad Ali Khan and Shafqat Ali Khan are the newer generation names in Patiala gharana in Pakistan, while in India, the torch is borne by Munawar Ali Khan, Jawaad Ali Khan, Mazhar Ali Khan, Johar Ali Khan, and Raza Ali Khan.

Question: Where was the place of burial of Najmuddin Ali Khan's father?
Answer: Jafarganj Cemetery