Question

Mir Jumla initially was a _______
(A) Soldier
(B) Amir
(C) Diamond
(D) Prince

Answer 1

Hint: The son of an oil merchant, Mir Jumla was born in Iran. Mir Jumla found a job as an employee in early age in a dealer who had ties to the Golconda Kingdom.
He then went to the Mughal Empire and opened his own business, working for the same profession.

Complete answer:
Mir Jumla:
1. Mir Jumla was born in Iran, the son of an oil merchant.
2. In his early years, Mir Jumla finds a position as clerk under a diamond merchant who had ties to the Kingdom of Golkonda. (Nearly today's town of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India).
3. The area was renowned for its diamond mining activities.
Later, he came to the Mughal Empire and opened his own diamond company.
4. He has been involved in maritime trading operations and has gained success.
Mir Jumla entered the service of the Sultan of Golconda and rose to the rank of Vizier (Prime Minister) of the Empire.
5. Prince Aurangzeb, the viceroy of Mughal in the Deccan, handed over his cause and thus he received the protection of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, who rewarded him with the title of Muazzam Khan, elevated him to the rank of 6000 zat and 6000 sawar, and named him a diwan-i-kul or prime minister.
6. Under Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, Mir Jumla had been the influential Bengal subahdar in Eastern India. He was the son of a petroleum dealer, born in Iran. Mir Jumla found a job as an assistant under a diamond dealer at his early age. He came to India later and started his own company with diamonds.

Hence, Option C. Diamond is the correct answer.

Note:
1. Mir Jumla had his own ships and assembled merchant fleets in the 1640s that sailed throughout Surat, Thatta, Arakan, Ayutthaya, Balasore, Aceh, Melaka, Johore, Bantam, Makassar, Ceylon, Paddy Abbas, Mecca, Jeddah, Basra, Aden, Masqat, Mocha and the Maldives.
2. The most critical feature of Mir Jumla’s rule in Bengal was his Northeast Boundary Policy, which captured the border kingdoms of Kamrup (Kamarupa) and Assam.