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2 unusual facts about Bairam Khan


Bairam Khan

In these struggles for the restoration of Babar's dynasty Khanzadas apparently do not figure at all.

Dalpat Vilas

Hemu (also called Vasant Raya) is said to have been killed, not by Akbar but by his nobles Bairam Khan and Bali Beg.


Jalandhar district

In Jalandhar Mughal forces were concentrated in 1555 when Humayun returned to deliver the battle that allowed him to regain the throne and the kingdom in the vicinity saw the defeat of the forces of Bairam Khan at the hands of the imperial forces in 1560.


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Salima Sultan Begum

In December of 1557, at the age of eighteen, Salima Begum was married to the considerably older Bairam Khan, (who was in his fifties) at Jalandhar, Punjab.

It united two streams of descent from Ali Shukr Beg, i.e. the Blacksheep Turkomans from Bairam Khan's side and Timur from Salima's side as Salima was a Timurid through her maternal grandfather, Emperor Babur, and through Mahmud, one of her great-grandfathers.

After only three years of marriage, Bairam Khan died in 1561 as a result of the intrigues against him instigated by Maham Anga, which culminated in his murder.