Hussain Quli Beg (), also Husayn Quli Khan Zulqadr, was a Mughal military vassal (mansabdar) with the rank of 5000 soldiers. He was later given the title Khān-i-Jahān (; ) by Emperor Akbar.
Early life Hussain Quli Beg was of Shia Persian Qizilbash origin, a member of a Turkic tribe long settled in Persia. "He was a Shia and a Persian,(1) while most of the other imperial officers in Bengal were Sunnis and Turks. (Note 1): Really a Qizilbash, or member of a Turkish tribe, long settled in Persia." He was the son of Wali Beg Zulqadr with the sister of Bairam Khan, of Qara Qoyunlu Turkoman ethnicity. "Humayun had been forced to leave Hindustan after his second defeat; he first sought shelter in Sind, where the Turkish dynasty of the Arghuns had replaced the indigenous Samma in 1520. His father's faithful friend Bairam Khan, a Baharlu Turcoman, joined him there, and his son Akbar was born in Umarkot (Sind) in 1542." "Bayram Khan belonged to the Bahārlū clan of the Qara Qoyunlū Turkmen (Nehāvandī, I, p. 11), whose descendants still live in the Dārābjerd region of Fārs province (Ṣafā, IV, p. 13)." He began his career as an ordinary soldier in Akbar's army, but was then imprisoned for supporting his uncle Bairam's revolt against the Empire. He was later pardoned by Akbar and continued his work as a loyal soldier.
History
At the Battle of Talamba (1573), Husayn Quli Khan and some other officers surprise the Timurids Ibrahim Husayn Mirza and his brother Mas'ud Husayn in Tulamba near Multan. Masʿud is captured, Ibrahim escapes.
He was appointed as the Subahdar (Governor) of Bengal after the death of Munim Khan in 1575. Daud Khan Karrani, the final Afghan Sultan of Bengal, rebelled against the Mughal Empire for the second time. In November, the new governor Khan Jahan, along with Raja Todar Mal, arrived in Tanda. The following July, they faced Daud's forces near the Padma River in Bengal. On 12 July 1576, the Battle of Rajmahal commenced where the Afghans suffered a significant defeat. Their best commander was killed, and Daud was captured after his horse got stuck in the mud. The Mughals, determined to eliminate Daud, had him beheaded. Khan Jahan displayed Daud's body in Tanda and sent his head to Emperor Akbar in Agra as a trophy. Khan Jahan also took Satgaon under his control.
Khan Jahan led military expedition against the Baro-Bhuiyans in 1578. In a naval battle in Katsul against Isa Khan, the ruler of Bhati, he failed to capture the area and retreated. He later died in Tanda, the erstwhile capital of Bengal, in December 1578. He was succeeded by Muzaffar Khan Turbati as the viceroy of Bengal in April, 1579. His son, Raja Quli, was promoted to a commander of 500 infantry with 300 cavalry in 1602.
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