Khanzada - Mughal Period

Mughal Period

Nahar Khan, the son of Hasan Khan, sued for peace with Babur subsequent to the Battle of Khanwa and thereafter it appears that the Khanzadas lived in relative obscurity. By now, their seats of power at Tijara and at Ulwur were both under the control of others. Powlett, writing in 1878, says that

The political power of the Khanzada chiefs of Mewat was now permanently broken, and they do not again appear, like Bahadur Khan and Hasan Khan, as the powerful opponents or principal allies of emperors. ... still retained local importance, which ... did not quite disappear until the present century."

A part of that local importance was signified by the marriage of Babur's successor, Humayun, and also of Humayun's powerful aide, Bairam Khan, with great-nieces of Hasan Khan. Additionally, according to Powlett, Khanzadas were "distinguished soldiers" in the armies of the Mughal empire. There was one brief flaring, during the rule of Aurungzeb, when Ikram Khan Khanzada succeeded in gaining the standard of the Governor of Tijara, but the once fractious Mewat region was generally peaceful under Mughal rule.