Isma'il Beg

Mirza Ismail Beg Hamdani (died March 1794) was a Mughal Commander of Persian origin.

[1] Arriving in India many members of his family including him rose to high positions in the Mughal Empire.

Initially a stalwart of the Marathas he would defect in 1790, in order to check the rising power of Mahadaji Shinde in the Mughal court.

Ismail Beg fled to Madhogarh and when the Marathas received this intel, Khande Rao marched against Madhogarh where Ismail Beg was captured in 1792 and imprisoned thereafter in Agra Fort by the Maratha general Mahadaji Shinde.

He was put to death by the orders of Mughal emperor Shah Alam II in March 1794.