Mirza Ghulam Murtaza
Indian chief and landowner (c.1791–1876) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mirza Ghulam Murtaza (Urdu: مرزا غلام مرتضى) (c.1791 – June 1876) was an Indian chief and landowner best known for being the father of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement. He belonged to a family of Mughal nobility that had lost most of its estates to the Sikh Kingdom during the late 18th century and only a fraction of which – including Qadian, the family's ancestral seat – he was able to regain from it.[1]
Ghulam Murtaza | |
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Mīrzā Raʾīs-i Qādiyān | |
Landed gentry | |
Predecessor | Mirza Atta Muhammad |
Successor | Mirza Ghulam Qadir |
Born | c. 1791 |
Died | June 1876 |
Buried | Qadian, Punjab, India |
Noble family | Barlas |
Spouse(s) | Chiragh Bibi |
Issue | Murad Begum Ghulam Qadir Ghulam Ahmad |
Father | Mirza Atta Muhammad |
Occupation | Rais, physician, military personnel |
Ghulam Murtaza was mentioned in some detail by Sir Lepel Griffin in The Panjab Chiefs (1865), a survey of the Punjab’s aristocracy, as a man of "considerable local influence".[2] He was married to Chiragh Bibi and had three surviving children.[3]