Salar Jang Estate
This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS. |
Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.
Salar Jang Estate
An estate comprising six taluks situated in various Districts of the Hyderabad State. It consists of 333 villages, and has an area of 1,486 square miles, with a population (1901) of 180,150. The taluks are Kosgi in Gulbarga, Ajanta in Aurangabad, Koppal and Yelbarga in Raichur, Dundgal in Medak, and Raigir m Nalgonda. The total revenue is 8-2 lakhs.
The present representative of the family is Nawab Salar Jang, grand- son of the late Sir Salar Jang, G.C.S.I , the great minister of the Nizam a The family claim descent from Shaikh Owais of Karan, who 1 Memoirs of Sir Salar Jang, by Syed Hossam Bilgiami (1883). lived in the time of the Prophet , Shaikh Owais the second, his tenth descendant, came to India during the reign of All Adil Shah (1656-72), and settled in Bijapur, where his son. Shaikh Muhammad All, mairied the daughter of Mulla Ahmad Nawayet 1 , the minister of the Bijapur kingdom, by whom he had two sons who rose to high rank.
Mulla Ahmad having joined the imperial seivice about 1665, his successor ill-treated the two brothers, who eventually left Bijapur during the reign of Sikandar Adil Shah and entered the service of Aurangzeb. One of these, Shaikh Muhammad Bakar by name, was appointed Diwan of Thal-kokan, and after retiring from active work settled m Aurangabad, where he died in 1715. His son, Shaikh Muhammad TakI, served under Aurangzeb, Bahadur Shah, and Farrukh Siyar Asaf Jah, the viceroy of the Deccan, appointed him commander of the garrisons of all his forts. Shams-ud-dm Muhammad Haidar, son of Muhammad Tald, continued in the service of Asaf Jah, and was promoted by his successors. Under Salabat Jang his command was raised to 7,000 foot and 7,000 hoise, and he received the title of Munlr-ul-mulk, with the appointment of head steward. He was subsequently made Diwan of the Deccan Subaks^ and finally retired to Aurangabad, of which city he was governor.
He left two sons, the elder of whom, Safdar Khan Ghayur Jang, was appointed Diwan of the Deccan Subahs in 1782, with the title of Ashja- ul-mulk. The third son of Ghayur Jang, from whom the present members of the family are directly descended, was All Zaman, Mumr- ul-mulk II. After his death his eldest son became the third Munlr-ul- mulk, and was married successively to two daughters of Mir Alam (Saiyid Abul Kasim). Mir Alam, who was thus the maternal great- grandfather of Sir Salar Jang, belonged to the Nuria Saiyids of Shustar in Persia His father, Saiyid Razzak, came to India when quite young, and settled at Hyderabad, where Nizam All Khan bestowed jdgirs upon him, Mir Alam acted as vakil between the British envoy and the Hyderabad minister m 1784. Two years later he went to Calcutta as the Nizam's repiesentative, and in 1791 he was sent to Lord Cornwallis to discuss the peace proposals between Tipu Sultan and the allies. He commanded the Nizam's troops m the campaign of 1799 against Tipu, and in 1804 was made mimstei after the death of Azam- ul-Umara. Aftei his death in 1808, he was succeeded as minister by his son-in-law, Munlr-ul-mulk III
Sir Salar Jang, the grandson of Munlr-ul-mulk III, succeeded his uncle Siraj-ul-rnulk of Hyderabad in 1853. For thirty years the story of his life is the history of the HYDERABAD STATE, to the article on which reference should be made. For his eminent services he was made
1 Vide History of Nawayets, by Nawab Aziz Jang, published at Hyderabad, 1313 Fash G.C.S I., and during a visit to England in 1876 he received the D C.L. degree at Oxford, and the freedom of the City of London. In 1884 the Nizam appointed the elder son of Sir Salar Jang as minister, who, however, resigned m 1887, and died two years later, leaving an infant son, Nawab Yusuf All Khan Bahadur Salar Jang, who is now the only direct representative of this distinguished family
Sale. South-western township of Myingyan District, Upper Burma, lying along the Irrawaddy, between 20 $2' and 20 56' N. and 94 43' and 95 2' E., with an area of 498 square miles. The soil is poor, near the river late sesamum is the chief crop, while on the less fertile lands farther from the stream the staple is early sesamum, followed by millet, beans, or hi The population was 45,394 in 1891, and 33,993 m 1901, distributed m 157 villages. Sale (population, 2,514), a village on the bank of the Irrawaddy, and a port of call for river steamers, is the head-quarters. In 1903-4 the area cultivated was 113 square miles, and the land revenue and thathameda amounted to Rs. 46,000.
