Zain Khan Koka
(-1601)

Positions Held

Governor of Kabul, 1588
Governor of Zabulistan

Bibliographical

Zain Khan was called the foster-brother of the emperor Akbar because his mother was employed as a nurse on Akbar in his childhood. Akbar raised him in course of time to the rank of 4500. In 1586  Zain Khan was despatched with a considerable detachment against the Afghans of Sawad and Bijour, but he was defeated, and Khwaja Arab Bakhshi, Raja Birbal, Mulla Sheri, and many other persons of distinction, with 8000 men, were killed in the action. He is said to have been the best musician of the time of Akbar, but a bad poet. He played chiefly Hindi tunes.

Place of death: Agra