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Momin Khan I
Momin Khan I, born Mirza Ja'far Najm-ud-daula, was a Mughal official of Persian descent who founded the state of Cambay, now Khambhat, in Gujarat. Posted to Cambay in the 1720s, he made it his family's hereditary seat as Mughal power declined, and he was later named governor of Gujarat. His descendants ruled Cambay as nawabs under Maratha and then British supremacy until 1948.
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