Agra Subah
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Agra Subah | |||||||||||
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| 1558–1761 | |||||||||||
 Agra Subah depicted in map of Mughal Empire by Robert Wilkinson (1805) | |||||||||||
| Capital | Agra | ||||||||||
| Subahdar | |||||||||||
| Historical era | Early-modern period | ||||||||||
• Established | 1558 | ||||||||||
| 12 June 1761 | |||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||
• 1601 | 46,417[1] sq mi (120,220 km2) | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | India | ||||||||||
The Agra Subah (Persian: صوبه آگره) was a subah (province) of the Mughal Empire, established in the reign of Akbar and one of the empire's core territories until it was eclipsed by the rapidly expanding Maratha Empire. To the north it bordered Delhi and Awadh, to the east Allahabad, and to the south and west Malwa and Ajmer. Its capital was at Agra, an important administrative center of the empire which was expanded under Mughal rule.
Administrative divisions
[edit | edit source]The province was divided into 13 sarkars during the reign of Akbar.[2]
| Sarkar |
|---|
| Agra (capital) |
| Kalpi |
| Kannauj |
| Kol |
| Gwalior |
| Erach |
| Payanwan |
| Narwar |
| Mandlaer |
| Alwar |
| Tijara |
| Narnaul |
| Sahar |
Subahdars
[edit | edit source]Under Shah Jahan
[edit | edit source]Qasim Khan
Wazir Khan
Islam Khan
Safdar Khan
Syed Khan Jahan
Azam Khan
Saif Khan
Raja Bethal Das
Shaikh Farid
Others
[edit | edit source]Wazir Khan (Lahore), 1628-1631
References
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- ^ Abul Fazl-i-Allami (1949, reprint 1993). Ain-i-Akbari, Vol.II (English tr. by H.S. Jarrett, rev. by J.N. Sarkar), Calcutta: The Asiatic Society, p. 190
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