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{{Short description|Subdivision of the Mughal Empire between 1580–1758}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2019}}
{{Infobox former country
| native_name =
| conventional_long_name = Ajmer Subah
| common_name = Ajmer
| status_text =
| title_leader = Subahdar
| leader1 = Dastam Khan
| year_leader1 = 1580
| capital = [[Ajmer]]
| coordinates = 
| political_subdiv = 
| today = [[India]]

| year_start = 1580
| year_end = 1752
| event_start =
| date_start = 
| event_end = Maratha occupation
| date_end = 
| event1 =
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| life_span =
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| event_pre =
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| image_border = 
| flag_type = 
| area_label = 1601
| area_sq_mi = 121095<ref>{{Cite book |last=Habib |first=Irfan |url= |title=An Atlas of the Mughal Empire: Political and Economic Maps with Detained Notes, Bibliography and Index |date=1986 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-560379-8 |language=en|chapter=Table I: Area and ''ʽJama'' of the Mughal Empire, c. 1601|author-link=Irfan Habib|pp=xii–xiii}}</ref>
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| image_map = Ajmer_Subah.png
| image_map_caption = Ajmer Subah depicted in map of Mughal Empire by Robert Wilkinson (1805)
| p1 = Rajput states
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| s1 = Maratha Confederacy
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| s2 = Rajputana Agency
| flag_s2 = British_Raj_Red_Ensign.svg
| footnotes = 
}}
The '''Ajmer Subah''' ({{langx|fa|{{nq|صوبه اجمیر}}}}) was one of the original 12 [[subah]]s (provinces) that comprised the [[Mughal Empire]] after the administrative reform under the rule of [[Akbar]]. Its borders roughly corresponded to modern-day [[Rajasthan]], and the capital was the city of [[Ajmer]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chaudhary |first1=S. S. |title=Ranthambhore Beyond Tigers |date=2000 |publisher=Himanshu Publications |page=48}}</ref>

==History==
Mughal patronage of the city of [[Ajmer]] in the 16th century through the support of local [[Sufi]] shrines (such as one dedicated to [[Moinuddin Chishti]]) through ''[[waqf]]s'', culminating in [[Akbar]]'s pilgrimage to the city itself in 1562. [[Jahangir]] continued the legacy of pilgrimage and imperial patronage. [[Shah Jahan]] visited the shrine as well in 1628, 1636, 1643, and 1654. [[Aurangzeb]] visited once, prior to his Deccan campaigns.<ref name="Thelen">{{cite thesis |last1=Thelen |first1=Elizabeth M. |title=Intersected Communities: Urban Histories of Rajasthan, c. 1500–1800 |date=2018 |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3h963831}}</ref>{{rp|28-35}}

For a brief period in the 1720, [[Ajit Singh of Marwar]] occupied Ajmer and declared independence from Mughal rule until the [[Sayyid brothers|Barha Sayyids]] reconquered the province.

In March 1752, the [[Maratha Empire|Maratha]] ''peshwas'' demanded the governorship of Ajmer from the Mughals, and [[Jayappaji Rao Scindia]] went to war supporting [[Ram Singh of Marwar]] when the request was denied, sacking the city of Ajmer.

== Geography ==
Ajmer Subah was bordered to the north by [[Subah of Multan|Multan Subah]] and [[History of Delhi#Mughal Rule|Delhi Subah]], to the west by [[Early modern era#Early modern era|Thatta Subah]], to the South by [[Gujarat Subah]] and [[Malwa Subah]] and to the east by the [[Agra Subah]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Saran |first=Parmatma |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KWIIAAAAMAAJ |title=The Provincial Government of the Mughals, 1526-1658 |date=1941 |publisher=Kitabistan |language=en}}</ref>

==Government==

===Subahdars===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Personal Name !! Reign<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Husain |first1=Afzal |title=Provincial Governors Under Akbar (1580-1605) |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |date=1970 |volume=32 |issue=1 |page=269-277}}</ref><ref name="Thelen" />
|-
| Dastam Khan || 1580–c. 1595
|-
| Sherza Khan || 1595–?
|-
| [[Jahangir|Prince Salim]] || 1598–?
|-
| [[Iftikhar Khan (governor)|Iftikhar Khan]]|| c. 1680–?
|-
| Shujaat Khan || c. 1710–?
|-
| [[Ajit Singh of Marwar]] || 1719–1723
|-
| Haider Quli Khan || 1723–?
|-
| Qamar al-Din ||
|-
| [[Jai Singh II]] || 1740–?
|-
| colspan=2 style="text-align: center" | ''[[Maratha Empire|Maratha rule]]''
|-
| Sahaba Patel || 1752-1752
|-
| Pandit Govind Rao || 1753–1761
|-
| Santaji Rao || 1761-1770
|-
| Sambhaji Rao || 1770-1773
|-
| Mirza Anwar Beg || 1773-1787
|-
| Shivaji Nanasaheb (As deputy of Lakhwa Dada)|| 1790-1801
|-
| Perron || 1801-1803
|-
| Bala Rao Ingaliah (As deputy of Ambaji Ingaliah)|| 1806-1809
|-
| Gomanji Rao || 1809-1816
|-
| Bapuji Shinde || 1816-1818
|}

===Administrative divisions===
Ajmer was divided into 7 ''[[Sarkar (administrative division)|sarkar]]s'' under Akbar's reign.<ref>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, pp.101-2</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Sarkar !! Parganas
|-
| [[Ajmer]] (capital) || 24
|-
| [[Jodhpur]] || 21
|-
| [[Chittor]] || 28
|-
| [[Ranthambore Fort|Ranthambore]] || 36
|-
| [[Nagaur]] || 30
|-
| [[Sirohi]] ||
|-
| [[Bikaner]] ||
|}

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Mughal subahs]]
[[Category:History of Ajmer]]
[[Category:History of Rajasthan]]

Ajmer Subah - Revision history

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