[1][2][3] He is the writer of the famous book Seir Mutaqherin (سیر المتاخرین; lit.

'Review of modern times'), one of the notable contemporary historical accounts on the late Mughal Empire.

He is considered to be among a slew of Muslim nobles whose families had left Delhi and settled in Azimabad.

[5] Ghulam Hussain Khan left Delhi after Nader Shah's Sack of Delhi and moved to the court of his cousin, Alivardi Khan, the Nawab of Bengal, in Murshidabad.

[8] Charles W. J. Withers described him as a "high-born Bihari official" whose Persian father had served the Mughal Emperor and whose mother was related to Alivardi Khan.