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Noble and Military Commander under Jahangir
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In the fractious winter of 1622, as Persian forces besieged Kandahar and Mughal authority wavered across the northwest frontier, Ullah Baksh led a forced march of 12,000 men across the Sulaiman Range in ten days, without artillery, with minimal fodder, and under constant tribal harassment, to relieve the garrison before it fell. His campaign wasn’t celebrated in imperial chronicles like those of Khurram’s rebellions, yet Jahangir personally awarded him the title 'Sipahdar-i-Muazzam' and entrusted him with the sensitive governorship of Multan, not for loyalty alone, but for his rare ability to administer revenue districts while simultaneously commanding mobile cavalry units that policed caravan routes without alienating local Baloch chieftains. He kept meticulous field diaries in Persian script, annotated with marginalia on grain prices, troop morale, and rainfall patterns, documents later cited by Shah Jahan’s finance ministers when revising the zabt system in Sindh.
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