![]() Ghalib was married at age 13 to Umrao Begum, daughter of Nawab Ilahi Bakhsh (brother of the Nawab of Ferozepur Jhirka). The Nawab of Ferozepur Jhirka reduced the pension to Rs. 10,000 per year, linked to the state of Firozepur Jhirka (Mewat, Haryana). When he died in 1806, the British took away the parganas and fixed his pension as Rs. The British appointed him an officer of 400 cavalrymen, fixed his salary at Rs.1700.00 month, and awarded him 2 parganas in Mathura (UP, India). He was the governor of Agra under the Marathas. Mirza Nasrullah Baig Khan (Ghalib's uncle) started taking care of the three orphaned children. He was raised first by his Uncle Mirza Nasrullah Baig Khan. Then Ghalib was a little over 5 years of age. He died in a battle in 1803 in Alwar and was buried at Rajgarh (Alwar, Rajasthan). He was employed first by the Nawab of Lucknow and then the Nizam of Hyderabad, Deccan. Mirza Abdullah Baig Khan (Ghalib's father) got married to Izzat-ut-Nisa Begum, and then lived at the house of his father in law. Mirza Abdullah Baig Khan and Mirza Nasrullah Baig Khan were two of his sons. He worked at Lahore, Delhi and Jaipur, was awarded the subdistrict of Pahasu (Bulandshahr, UP) and finally settled in Agra, UP, India. ![]() His paternal grandfather, Mirza Qoqan Baig Khan was a Saljuq Turk who had immigrated to India from Samarkand (now in Uzbekistan) during the reign of Ahmad Shah (1748–54). Mirza Ghalib was born in Agra into a family descended from Aibak Turks who moved to Samarkand after the downfall of the Seljuk kings. ![]()
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