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Shamsuddin Ahmad Khan
Shamsuddin Ahmad Khan was nawab of Loharu and Firozpur Jhirka in northern India, son of the state's founder Ahmad Bakhsh Khan. In 1835 he was hanged in Delhi for arranging the murder of William Fraser, the British Resident. Firozpur Jhirka was confiscated, leaving his family only the small state of Loharu. The poet Ghalib was related to the family by marriage.
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