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| name = Nawab Muzaffar-Jang Diler Himmat Khan
| title = [[Nawab]] of [[Farrukhabad]]<br>Muzaffar Jang
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| reign = 1771-1796
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| predecessor = [[Ahmad Khan Bangash]]
| successor = Imdad Hussain Khan Bangash
| birth_name = Diler Himmat Khan
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}} [[Nawab]] '''Diler Himmat Khan''', commonly known by his regnal name '''Muzaffar Jang''' (1771–1796) was the fourth [[Nawab]] or ruler of [[Farrukhabad]], a kingdom in early-modern India. He succeeded his father [[Ahmad Khan Bangash]] as the ruler in 1771.<ref name="ahmad">{{cite web |title=Nawab Ahmad Khan Bangash {{!}} The Indian Portrait |url=http://www.theindianportrait.com/artwork/nawab-ahmad-khan-bangash/ |language=en}}</ref><ref name="oriental">{{cite book |last1=Beale |first1=Thomas William |last2=Keene |first2=Henry George |title=An Oriental Biographical Dictionary |date=1894 |publisher=W.H. Allen |isbn=978-1-4047-0648-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zaoYAAAAIAAJ&dq=muhammad+khan+bangash&pg=PA268 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="bangash"/><ref name="raj">{{cite book |last1=Garg |first1=Sanjay |title=The Raj and the Rajas: Money and Coinage in Colonial India |date=22 December 2022 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-000-82889-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0MudEAAAQBAJ&dq=Nawab+Ahmad+Khan+Bangash+of+Farrukhabad&pg=PT277 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="tarikh">{{cite book |last1=Arwine |first1=William |title=Tarikh-e Farrukhabad, Vol. I |publisher=Archaeological Survey of India |location=New Delhi |url=https://indianculture.gov.in/rarebooks/tarykh-frkh-abad-jld-1 |language=Urdu}}</ref>

==Early life and background==
Diler Himmat Khan was born to [[Nawab]] [[Ahmad Khan Bangash]] and his fourth wife, Khair-un-nissa in September 1757 - September 1758. His father was a leading noble in the [[Mughal Empire]] and ruled [[Farrukhabad]] as his ancestral domain.<ref name="bangash">{{cite book |title=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal |date=1832 |publisher=Calcutta |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/journalofasiat4811879asia/page/58/mode/2up?q=bangash&view=theater |page= 49-165 |chapter=The Bangash Nawabs of Farrukhabad: 1713-1857}}</ref> Diler Himmat Khan's mother, Khair-un-nissa was the adopted daughter of Yakut Khan, one of [[Ahmad Khan Bangash|Ahmad Khan]]'s salves and reportedly a descendant of Khan Jahan Khan Lodi, the principal [[Afghans|Afghan]] noble during the reign of [[Mughal emperor]] [[Shah Jahan]].<ref name="house">{{cite book |last1=Gommans |first1=Jos |title=The Indian Frontier: Horse and Warband in the Making of Empires |date=22 December 2017 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-36356-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HkpnDwAAQBAJ&dq=Nawab+Ahmad+Khan+Bangash+of+Farrukhabad&pg=PT171 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Abid - The Decapitation of Khan Jahan Lodi (3 February 1631) |url=https://www.rct.uk/collection/1005025-q/the-decapitation-of-khan-jahan-lodi-3-february-1631 |website=www.rct.uk |language=en}}</ref>
Diler's birth was much rejoiced at and he was given the title of ''Muzaffar Jang'' by his father.<ref name="bangash"/><ref name="oriental"/>

==Reign==
On his father's death in 1771, Diler Himmat Khan succeeded him as the [[Nawab]] of [[Farrukhabad]].<ref name="ahmad"/><ref name="bangash"/> Early in his reign, he was forced to seek the aid of the [[Oudh State|ruler of Awadh]], [[Shuja-ud-Daula]] in 1773 to expel the [[Maratha Empire|Marathas]] who had attacked [[Farrukhabad]]. According to a "Hamilton", this Maratha army was actually a small raiding party. Hamilton held Muzaffar Jang in low opinion, stating him to be a weak and ignorant young man.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Strachey |first1=Sir John |title=Hastings and the Rohilla War |date=1892 |publisher=Clarendon Press |page=131 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P-ecYSQwNCcC |language=en}}</ref><ref name="raj"/><ref name="tarikh"/> However, he became a tributary of [[Oudh State|Awadh]] in 1774 after the [[First Rohilla War]]. The [[Company Rule in India|British]] [[Governor-General of India]], [[Lord Cornwallis]] considered Muzaffar Jang to be "either a madman or an idiot".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Welsch |first1=Christina |title=The Company's Sword: The East India Company and the Politics of Militarism, 1644–1858 |date=25 August 2022 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-98102-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rdCIEAAAQBAJ&dq=muzaffar+jung+farrukhabad&pg=PA108 |language=en}}</ref> Muzaffar Jang died on 22 October 1796, allegedly poisoned by his eldest son Rustam Ali Khan.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ahmad |first1=Safi |title=Two Kings of Awadh: Muhammad Ali Shah and Amjad Ali Shah, 1837-1847 |date=1971 |publisher=P. C. Dwadash Shreni |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tGNXAAAAMAAJ&q=muzaffar+jung+farrukhabad |language=en}}</ref><ref name="bangash"/>

==Issue==
Diler Himmat Khan had four consorts. He had nine children, of whom two were sons and seven were daughters. They are as follows in chronological order-<ref name="bangash"/>
*Rustam Ali Khan, eldest son who allegedly poisoned Diler Himmat Khan
*Imdad Hussain Khan, regnal name Nasir Jung, died 1st of February, 1813
*Umdah Begum, married to Himmat Bahadur
*Fazl-un-nissa, married to Muhammad Ali Khan, eldest son of Dil Daler Khan, son of [[Ahmad Khan Bangash]]
*Najib-un-nissa, married to Ahmad Ali Khan, second son of Dil Daler Khan. She died on 22nd of October, 1864.
*Nawab Begum, married to Hussain Ali Khan, son of Amin-ud-Daula. She died on 23rd of May, 1817.
*Amir Begum, married to Hasan Ali Khan, another son of Amin-ud-Daula. She died on 17th of August, 1842.
*Nadir Jahan Begum
*Unnamed daughter, married to Burhan Ali Khan

==References==
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[[Category: People from Farrukhabad]]
[[Category: Nawabs of India]]
[[Category:18th-century Mughal Empire people]]
[[Category: 1796 deaths]]

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