Titles of Rulers

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Rulers got different titles in different areas of the world. We got Sultan, Shah, Khan, Badshah, Shehnshah, Raja, Maharaja and many other titles.Lets share here the history behind adapting such titles.

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Khan, is a generic Altaic title for chief.

Kha-Khan is Khan of Khans or the great Khan.

Later Khan was accepted term for commanding officers who were ussually but not always of royal blood. Turks, Mongols and Tartars were a perfect Meritocracy. A Khan was equivalent to modern Field Marshal and commanded a Touman or 10,000 troops. At the time this was the highest level division in Mongol and Turkic armies.

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Is it Khaqaan a variation of Kha-Khan? What about Khan e KhanaN?

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KhaKhaan Kagaan Khaqaan... they are all the same.

Khan e khanan and Mugal e azam also amount to the same title. Except in Persian.

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Is Mughl e Azam a general title? I thought it was used on for Akbar.

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Well its Persian for Great Mongol or Mugal.

I think it was first applied to Genghis or Hulegu and then down the years to various others... Akbar just got the title later... I dont think he was the greatest... maybe in India but compared to his Western and Northern Cousins he was a small fish.

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But who were famous cousins of Akbar, who got so much fame as Akbar got.

There were also local titles like Maha Bali that were attributed to Akbar and other Mughal rulers. They also loved to hear 'Zill e Ilahi', 'Jahan Panah' before their names.

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Whats the history behind title Qaisar o Kisra? Qaisar was Roman and Kisra was Persian? Why don't we hear more Kisras in Iran now?

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Pesh e khidmat hai Hyderabad ke nizam ka title…:smiley:

His Exalted Highness Rustam-i-Dauran, Arustu-i-Zaman, Wal Mamalik, Asaf Jah VII, Muzaffar-ul-Mulk-Wal-Mamalik, Nizam ul-Mulk, Nizam ud-Daula Nawab Mir SirMir Osman Ali Khan Siddqi Bahadur, Sipah Saula, Fateh Jung, Nizam of Hyderabad and of Berar, Knight Grand Commander of The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Royal Victorian Chain, Honorable General in the Army, Faithful Ally of the British Government.

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:hayaa: ye ek aadmi hai?

BTW what is the different between his highness and his excellency?

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Yeh to Faris bhai ya The kaur hi bataa saktein hai....................:D

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Nizam of hyderabad was a famous kanjoos in the world.. he got diamonds, but he didn't use electricity connection even in hot weather.

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I never heard this but heard a story(might be a rumor:wink:)that he used to wear a new pair of socks everyday …

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\i read about him in ‘Freedom at Midnight’.. socks were not discussed there. although the writers mentioned many Nawabs and rajas who took kushte and Aphrodite for better performance :wink:

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I m wondering what title would world give me after i m gone

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I even heard that Nawab of Lucknow used to walk with umbrella on even in moon light because it may hurt the skin of Nawab Saheb, I doubt if Raja of extended Jatland, Maharaja Ranjeet Singh even had such ideas:D

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Marhoom :cb:

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Nope. Maharaja Ranjeeb Singh didn't get chui mui nature.

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Maybe he was going green whole saving some green

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