Daud Khan Panni

Daud Khan Panni
Portrait of Nawab Daud Khan, Mughal India, portrayed in Hyderabad, Deccan, India (1756)
Naib Faujdar of the Carnatic
In office 1701–?
Monarch	Aurangzeb
Naib Subahdar of the Deccan
In office 1710–1713
Monarchs	Bahadur Shah I, Jahandar Shah
Governor of Gujarat
In office 1713–1715
Monarch	Farrukhsiyar
Personal details
Died	(1715-09-06)6 September 1715 near Burhanpur
Relations	Ranmast Khan (paternal uncle) Sulaiman Khan (brother) Ibrahim Khan (brother)
Parent	Khizr Khan Panni (father)
Military service
Battles/wars	Siege of Jinji Siege of Wagingera Mughal war of succession (1707–1709)

Daud Khan Panni (d. (1715-09-06)6 September 1715) or simply Daud Khan, was a Pashtun nobleman and military commander of the Mughal Empire. Historians Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam characterise him as an important figure of Mughal history spanning the later years of emperor Aurangzeb, to the early rule of Farrukhsiyar.^[1]

As the deputy of distinguished official Zulfiqar Khan, Daud Khan Panni was prominently associated with Mughal interests in South India. He was particularly influential in the politics of the Carnatic region, which he governed in the early 1700s. Later in life, he was appointed governor of Gujarat under emperor Farrukhsiyar, serving briefly before his death in a battle against Sayyid Hussain Ali Khan. He is regarded to have played a significant role in the establishment of the Nawab of the Carnatic.