| Sarfarāz Khān | |
|---|---|
| Mīrzā Motamul ul-Mulk (Guardian of the country) Alā ud-Dawlah (Promoter of the state) Ḥaydar Jang (Lion in War) | |
 | |
| Nawab of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa | |
| Reign | 13 March 1739 – 29 April 1740 |
| Coronation | 13 March 1739 |
| Predecessor | Shuja-ud-Din Muhammad Khan |
| Successor | Alivardi Khan |
| Naib Nazim of Dhaka | |
| Tenure | 1734 – 1739 |
| Predecessor | Mīrzā Lutfullāh Tabrīzī |
| Successor | Abdul Fattāh Khān |
| Born | Mirza Asadullah c. 1700 Deccan Plateau, Mughal Empire |
| Died | 29 April 1740 Murshidabad, Bengal, Mughal Empire |
| Burial | Khushbagh, West Bengal, India |
| Issue | Sons: Mīrza Hafizullah Khan (d. November 1771) Mīrza Mughal |
| Dynasty | Nāṣirī |
| Father | Shuja-ud-Din Muhammad Khan |
| Mother | Zinat-un-nisa Begum |
| Religion | Shia Islam[1][2][3] |
Sarfarāz Khān (c. 1700 – 29 April 1740), born Mīrza Asadullāh, was a Nawab of Bengal. Sarfaraz Khan's maternal grandfather, Nawab Murshid Quli Khan of Bengal (Bengal, Bihar and Orissa) nominated him as the direct heir to him as there was no direct heir. After Murshid Quli's death in 1727, Sarfaraz ascended to the Masnad (throne) of the Nawab. Sarfaraz's father, Shuja-ud-Din Muhammad Khan, then the Subahdar of Orissa, getting to know it arrived at Murshidabad, the capital of the Nawabs of Bengal with a huge army. To avoid a conflict in the family the dowager Begum of the Nawab asked Shuja-ud-Din to ascend to the Masnad after Sarfaraz abdicated in favour of his father. However, circumstances led Shuja-ud-Din to nominate Sarfaraz as his heir and after Shuja-us-Din's death in 1739, Sarfaraz Khan again ascended to the Masnad as the Nawab of Bengal (Bengal, Bihar and Orissa).
- ^ S. A. A. Rizvi, A Socio-Intellectual History of Isna Ashari Shi'is in India, Vol.2, pp. 45–47, Mar'ifat Publishing House, Canberra (1986).
- ^ K. K. Datta, Ali Vardi and His Times, ch. 4, University of Calcutta Press, (1939)
- ^ Andreas Rieck, The Shias of Pakistan, p. 3, Oxford University Press, (2015).