Jahangir Khan

Jahangir Aziz Khan (born 1.I.1657 AN, Vijayanagara), politician and Humanist of the Benacian Union. Szodan of Elluennuueq since 1722 AN.

Biography

Early life

Born as the youngest of four brothers, six years after the Auspicious Occasion to a middle class family which had come into wealth by claiming bounties for fugitive Froyalaners, Jahangir Khan found his early life of affluence cut short in his infancy as in 1660 AN his parents were obliged to flee their ancestral home ahead of the arrival of Cimmerian militiamen at the onset of the First Elwynnese Civil War. Left destitute in an Alalehzamini refugee camp at the end of the conflict in 1669 AN, {{[PAGENAME}} completed his primary and secondary education at gymnasia controlled by the Army of the Southern League in Islus where his family was ultimately resettled. Whilst the family fortunes had recovered after his mother had established a human resources agency specialising in providing Babkhi workers as temporary employees for Elw companies during the Roqpin holidays, Jahangir, as the youngest son, was obliged to find his own way into adult life.

With the Kalirion Fracture commencing the year prior to his graduation in 1672 AN, Jahangir found his path into the People's Academy of Elwynn blocked by the chaotic circumstances of the period immediately prior to the restoration of Elwynnese independence. Instead of pursuing higher education, Jahangir, after a variety of temporary and menial jobs provided by his parent's agency company, began his career as an officer of the Union Defence Force, having enlisted in 1675 AN at the age of eighteen in order to pursue his degree studies under a bursary scheme with the Elwynnese Military and Naval Academy, known colloquially as the Royal Academy of Warfare, in Eliria.

Commissioned as a Löjtnant in the 3rd Jägarbataljon of the 15th Division, had achieved the rank of Kapten by 1679 AN, having passed through the Second Amokolian War without playing any part in hostilities. Shortly after receiving his promotion he had been assigned to the Peace and Stability Mission in Angularis as part of bandit hunting operations directed against the 'Nclavesci in Northern Tellia, which in the following year had been expanded to include garrisoning duties provided for by the Northern Tellia Agreement. From 1681 AN to 1683 AN Khan was attached to Berht Klarænst as part of an officer exchange programme between the UDF and the Black Legions. The experience of Khan in the Unified Governorates was something he subsequently would describe as a "culture shock". Although he would develop a lifelong loathing of Central Benacian cuisine, his appreciation of Schleps Gin, cultivated during that period, would prove to be similarly enduring.

He would discover, to his dismay, that he had been disowned by his family after they had learnt of his forming a relationship with a "Vanic harlot" he'd first met in the dive bars of Sansabury. The accusation of consorting with a Vanic had been a serious one, and very nearly terminated his career as it had resulted in an investigation by the officer commanding 15th Division "Angularis". Acquited of "blood defilement" by a court of honour, the woman had in fact been Wintergleamish and her family redeemed after the Auspicious Occasion, his progression through the ranks had nonetheless been harmed by the association, and the attention it had brought upon him. He was subsequently transferred to the 21st Works Division and placed on half-pay, a position where he would languish until the Amokolian Revolution of 1685 AN.

West Amokolia

Along with many other politically and morally suspect officers who had been shunted into unfulfilling duties rather than subjected to the kinds of punishment that would attract the unwanted attention of Ayreonist officials in the civilian government, Jahangir Khan found himself abruptly recalled from obscurity at the onset of Operation Amok-Dag, the intervention of Benacia Command of the Raspur Pact and the UDF in the break-up of Benacian Francia. Khan found himself attached to the logistics staff and supply train of the XXIII Combined Arms Corps and swiftly thereafter directed to Tsofnhafen where he was thrown into the unfamiliar task of serving in the occupation administration of a significant city under the direction of the Commission for the Integration of Amokolia.

While Khan had expected his duties to revolve around the logistical problems of a city under occupation, he instead soon found himself along with an ad hoc squadron-strength contingent of UDF personnel, thrust into the vexing and dangerous task of maintaining public order in an allotted district of Tsofnhafen, as the Amokolian population had reacted with fury to the efforts of the CIA to suppress the Amokolian Revolution and depose Kir Azariah Vidar, the fleeting King of West Amokolia.

Career

• 6.II.1708 AN – 19.IX.1722 AN: President of the Realm’s General Staff, Vice President of the Civil Executive, Director of the Executive Bureau
• 19.IX.1722 AN – : Archon of the N&H National Sector Party of Elluenuueq
• 19.IX.1722 AN – : Candidate Szodan of Elluenuueq