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{{Short description|Mughal general}}{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Diler Khan
| office = [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] [[subahdar]] of [[Awadh]]
| monarch = [[Aurangzeb]]
| allegiance = [[file:Alam of the Mughal Empire.svg|25px]] [[Mughal Empire]]
| branch = [[Mughal Army]]
| serviceyears = 1660s-1683
| rank = [[Mansabdar]]
| battles = [[Mughal-Maratha Wars]] [[Battle of Bhupalgarh]] [[Battle of Purandar]] Battle of Salher
| birth_place = [[Peshawar]], [[Kabul Subah]], [[Mughal Empire]] Modern-day ([[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]], [[Pakistan]])
| death_place = [[Hardoi]], [[Awadh Subah]], [[Mughal Empire]] (modern-day [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]])
| parents = Nawab Darya Khan Daudzai
| occupation = [[Subahdar]], [[Ispahsalar|sipahsalar]]
| image = Diler Khan Daudzai.jpg
| caption = Portrait of Diler Khan Daudzai. {{c.}}1686
| death_date = {{c.}} 1683
}}

'''Diler Khan Daudzai''' was a [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] general who served under [[Aurangzeb]] and was the governor of [[Awadh]]. He is known for engaging in battle and killing [[Murarbaji]], the military general of [[Shivaji]] and the in-charge of [[Purandar Fort]]s.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Srivastava |first1=Ashirbadi Lal |title=The Mughul Empire, 1526-1803 A.D. |year=1969 |publisher=S. L. Agarwala |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DK7ZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Diler+Khan%22+-wikipedia |accessdate=13 September 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Aiyangar |first1=Sakkottai Krishnaswami |title=Ancient India and South Indian History & Culture: Papers on Indian History and Culture; India to A.D. 1300 |year=1941 |publisher=Oriental Book Agency |page=35 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W3tDAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Diler+Khan%22+-wikipedia |language=en}}</ref> His brother's name was Nawab Bahadur Khan.<ref>{{Cite web |title=12 दिन में शहर बसाकर अफगानिस्तान चले गए थे बहादुर खान |url=https://www.amarujala.com/uttar-pradesh/shahjahanpur/historical-place-shahjahanpur-news-bly4519550144 |access-date=2024-05-10 |website=Amar Ujala |language=hi}}</ref> Diler Khan and Bahadur Khan together established the famous district [[Shahjahanpur]] located in Uttar Pradesh.<ref>{{Cite web |title=12 दिन में शहर बसाकर अफगानिस्तान चले गए थे बहादुर खान |url=https://www.amarujala.com/uttar-pradesh/shahjahanpur/historical-place-shahjahanpur-news-bly4519550144 |access-date=2024-05-10 |website=Amar Ujala |language=hi}}</ref> He was also responsible for the Mughal victory over Shivaji in the [[Battle of Bhupalgarh]].<ref name="battles marathas lost">{{cite web |title=Battle of Bhupalgarh |url=http://www.10000battles.com/battles2.php?bat=1310}}</ref>

== Early life ==
He was born near [[Peshawar]],<ref>{{cite book |author=Athar Ali |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.142894/page/n251/mode/2up?q=bahadur |title=The Mughal Nobility Under Aurangzeb |page=251 |quote=Dilir Khan Rohela - Birthplace: India}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Gommans |first=Jos J. L.|author-link=Jos Gommans |title=Afghan Migration and State-Formation in Mughal India |date=1994-01-01 |work=The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire, c. 1710-1780 |pages=104–143 |url=https://brill.com/display/book/9789004644731/B9789004644731_s010.xml |access-date=2024-05-30 |publisher=Brill |language=en |isbn=978-90-04-64473-1}}</ref> and was son of Nawab Darya Khan Rohilla, an [[Afghan (ethnonym)|Afghan]] who traced his descent to the [[Pashtuns|Pashtun]] Daudzai tribe,<ref>{{cite book |author=Rijksmuseum (Netherlands). Rijksprentenkabinet, Hermann Goetz |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-RTrAAAAMAAJ&q=diler+khan+hindustani+pathan |title=The Indian and Persian Miniature Paintings in the Rijks-prentenkabinet (Rijksmuseum) Amsterdam |date=1958 |page=37}}</ref> and a [[mansabdar]] who served under the Indian Muslim [[Mir Bakhshi]], [[Shaikh Farid Bukhari]] in 1603.<ref>{{cite book |author=Henry Beveridge |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L_O1AAAAIAAJ&q=darya+khan+rohilla |title=The Maāt̲h̲ir-ul-umarā Being Biographies of the Muḥammadan and Hindu Officers of the Timurid Sovereigns of India from 1500 to about 1780 A.D |year=1979 |page=455}}</ref>

==Campaign against Marathas==
After previous attempts to overthrow [[Shivaji]] failed, [[Aurangzeb]] sent [[Jai Singh I|Jai Singh]], his most senior general ("[[Mirza (noble)|Mirza]] [[Raja]]"), along with Diler Khan to overthrow the Marathas and establish [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] rule in the Deccan. Diler Khan insisted on capturing [[Purandar Fort]]. Jai Singh, who understood the challenge the campaign involved. He advised Diler Khan to move his army on Vajragarh. Purandar Fort was a short distance from Vajragarh. If Vajragarh was captured, the Mughal cannons could easily capture the Purandar Fort.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Elliot |first1=Henry Miers |title=The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians: The Muhammadan Period |date=21 March 2013 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-05589-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P_yZMy1fxsUC&dq=%22Diler+Khan%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA272 |language=en}}</ref>

On 13 April 1665, Diler Khan was successful in capturing Vajragarh. The Mughal army under Diler Khan and Jai Singh celebrated the victory over Vajragarh with booming of guns. Diler Khan then turned his attention to Purandar.

On 16 May 1665, Diler Khan faced [[Murarbaji]], the in-charge of Purandar Fort. Murarbaji fought valiantly but was killed by Diler Khan's arrow.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Joshi |first1=Rita |title=The Afghan Nobility and the Mughals: 1526-1707 |year=1985 |publisher=Vikas Publishing House |isbn=9780706927528 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qhhuAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Diler+Khan%22+-wikipedia |language=en}}</ref>

== Later life ==
He died in 1683 in [[Hardoi]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Supplemental Information 3: An excerpt from Data Downloads page, where users can download original datasets. |url=https://peerj.com/articles/9467/#supp-3 |doi=10.7717/peerj.9467/supp-3 |doi-access=free}}</ref>

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