Inayatullah Kashmiri

Inayatullah Kashmiri was a prominent Mughal noble of Kashmiri descent in the early 1700s, in the position of the Diwan-i-Tan-o Khalisa.[1]

Inayatullah Khan was the father of Hidayatullah Khan, the Grand Vizier of Bahadur Shah I.[2] In the reign of Farrukhsiyar, Inayatullah was responsible for the re-imposition of Jizyah after the death of Aurangzeb:[3]

"Inayatullah has placed before me a letter form the Sherif of Mecca urging that the collection of jizya is obligatory according to our Holy book. In a matter of faith, I am powerless to interfere."

In 1717 he was appointed the governor of Kashmir. He set fire to the Hindu area of Srinagar and forbade the Pandits from wearing turbans.[4] In 1724 he was re-appointed as governor of Kashmir for a third time.[5]

References
  1. William Irvine (1971). Later Mughal. Atlantic Publishers & Distri. p. 40.
  2. Zahiruddin Malik (1973). A Mughal Statesman of the Eighteenth Century, Khan-i-Dauran, Mir Bakshi of Muhammad Shah, 1719-1739. Centre of Advanced Study, Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University. p. 26.
  3. R.K. Gupta, S.R. Bakshi (2008). Rajasthan Through the Ages. Sarup & Sons. p. 174.
  4. Victoria Schofield (1996). Kashmir in Conflict:India, Pakistan and the Unending War. p. 23.
  5. G. M. D. Sufi · (1974). Kashīr, Being a History of Kashmir from the Earliest Times to Our Own. p. 292.
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