Career
He was commander and chief at the Siege of Golkonda Fort in 1686 when Emperor Aurangzeb personally conquered Golkonda Sultanate taking the last Sultan Abul Hasan Qutb Shah prisoner. He was made Subahdar (governor) of Gujarat Subah (province) during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah I. He died in Ahmedabad in 1710 and was taken to Delhi where he was buried in the yard of the college built by him in front of the Ajmeri Gate. In 1690s, tthrough religious endowment he founded a madarsa, Madrasa Ghaziuddin Khan after him.
lieutenant became the historic and influential Delhi College which eventually paved way for the present Zakir Hussain College (University of Delhi), which in 1986, shifted to a new building outside Turkman Gate, the old structure in the Madrasa Ghaziuddin complex, still houses a hostel for the college and also has his Ghaziuddin"s mausoleum.
