Subhan Ali Khan Kamboh

Subhan Ali Khan Kamboh (born 1766) was an Indian Muslim scholar, son of Ali Hussain Khan Kamboh of Bareilly in Rohilkhand. He completed his education under Dildar Ali Naseerabadi. Subhan Ali Khan Kamboh specialized in logic, philosophy, literature and Qur'anic exegesis, hadis and fiqh, etc. He also learnt English and Hebrew languages.^[1] He was closely associated with Shaikh Ali Hazin. He rose to become Deputy Prime Minister of Awadh during Roshan-ud-Daula's Prime Ministership in the reign of Ghazi ud Din Haider. He wielded immense influence in Awadh and is said to have been the de facto Prime Minister during Roshan ud Din's Prime Minisrship.^[2] He had also been the Prime Minister of Agha Mir. Mirza Ghalib received an invitation to a reception in audience by the ruler's Deputy Prime Minister i.e. Subhan Ali Kamboh but the meeting did not happen because Mirza Ghalib stipulated two pre-conditions to his meeting with the formers: (1), that he be granted 'due honor' and (2), that he should be 'excused from making the customary peshkash '. Benefactors did not like pre-conditions being laid down by the supplicants hence the meeting failed.^[3]

References

1. A Socio-intellectual History of the Isnā ʾAsharī Shīʾīs in India : 16th to 19th century A.D., 1986, p 176, Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi.
2. Two kings of Awadh Muhammad Ali Shah and Amjad Ali Shah, 1837-1847, p 25, fn 25, Safi Ahmad.
3. British Aggression in Avadh,1969, p 14, Safi Ahmad Khan, M. M. Uddin Khan.