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Dictionary of Indian Biography/Ali Ibrahim Khan, Nawab

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2480305Dictionary of Indian Biography — Ali Ibrahim Khan, NawabCharles Edward Buckland

ALI IBRAHIM KHAN, NAWAB ( ? –1793?)

Of Patna : "Daroga" of the Court at Benares, that is, President of the tribunal there, in the time of Warren Hastings' Governorship : besides a number of compositions, he compiled the Gulzar-i Ibrahim, described as an anthological biography of Hindustani poets, written 1772–1784 : he had a poetical name, Khatil : died 1793 or 1794.