Fath Khan | |
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| Peshwa of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate | |
| In office 1626–1633 | |
| Monarchs | Burhan Nizam Shah III Husayn Nizam Shah III |
| Preceded by | Malik Ambar |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Aziz Malik |
| Relations | Changiz Khan (brother) Abdul Rasul (son) |
| Parent | Malik Ambar (father) |
| Military service | |
| Battles/wars | Siege of Daulatabad (1633) |
Fath Khan, also written as Fateh Khan,[2] was a 17th-century political figure of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate, a historical principality spanning the Western Deccan region in the Indian subcontinent. He was the eldest son of Malik Ambar, the Peshwa (prime minister) of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate. He succeeded his father as the Sultanate's de facto ruler after the latter's death in 1626, and served as Peshwa until his imprisonment in 1633. His tenure, lasting less than a decade, spanned the eclipse days of the kingdom; it was characterised by internal strife and political pressure from the Mughal Empire. He played a key role in the kingdom's collapse by defecting to the Mughal Empire, and killed the ruler Burhan Nizam Shah III in the name of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. His political career came to an end with the Siege of Daulatabad, after which he submitted to the Mughal emperor and became his pensioner.
- ^ Haidar, Navina Najat; Sardar, Marika; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), eds. (2015). Sultans of Deccan India, 1500-1700: opulence and fantasy. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 73. ISBN 978-1-58839-566-5.
- ^ Radhey 1966, p. 300.