's widow and child (Rahim) being escorted to
Ahmedabad, in 1561, after his assassination,
Akbarnama Abdul Rahim was born in
Lahore, the son of
Bairam Khan, Akbar's trusted guardian and mentor, who was of
Kara Koyunlu Turkic extraction. When
Humayun returned to India from his exile, he asked his nobles to forge matrimonial alliances with various
zamindars and feudal lords across the nation. Humayun married the elder daughter of Khanzada Jamal Khan of
Mewat (now the
Nuh district of
Haryana) and he asked
Bairam Khan to marry the younger daughter. The
Gazetteer of Ulwur (Alwar) states: :After Babur's death, his successor,
Humayun, in 1540 was supplanted as ruler by the
Pashtun Sher Shah Suri, who, in 1545, was followed by
Islam Shah. During the reign of the latter, a battle was fought and lost by the emperor's troops at
Firozpur Jhirka, in Mewat. However, Islam Shah did not lose his hold on power. Adil Shah, the third of the Pathan interlopers, who succeeded Islam Shah in 1552, had to contend for the empire with Humayun. :In these struggles for the restoration of Babur's dynasty the Khanzadas apparently do not figure at all.
Humayun seems to have conciliated them by marrying the elder daughter of Khanzada Jamal Khan, nephew of Babur's opponent, Khanzada
Hasan Khan Mewati, and by requiring his minister, Bairam Khan, to marry the younger daughter of the same Mewati. the royal family of Muslim Jadon (also spelt as
Jadaun)
Rajputs, converted to Islam after Islamic conquest of northern India. Khanzada is the Persian form of the Indic word 'Rajput'. They were the Mewati chiefs of the Persian historians, who were the representatives of the lords of
Mewat State. After Bairam Khan was murdered in
Patan, Gujarat, his first wife and young Rahim were brought safely from Ahmedabad to Delhi and presented at the royal court of Akbar, who gave him the title of 'Mirza Khan', and subsequently married him to Mah Banu (Moon Lady), sister of Mirza Aziz Kokah, son of
Ataga Khan, a noted Mughal noble. ==Campaign against Mewar==