Gali Qasim Jaan
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Gali Qasim Jaan, Ballimaran, one of streets crossing Chandni Chowk. It is named after Nawab Muhammad Qasim Khan Bahadur, Sohrab Jang [Mirza Qasim Jan Beg]. b. at Yarkhand, educ. privately. Migrated to India, with his brothers, and entered the Mughal service as an artillery officer in 1779. Naib Wazir to Emperor Shah Alam II. Granted the jagir of Hateen in the Gurgaon dist. m. a daughter of Zakaria Khan, a Bokhara Mughal. He d. at Delhi, having had issue, three sons and a daughter: . The Haveli of famous poet Mirza Ghalib who is also related to family as he was one of the relative to a descendent of Nawab Qasim Jan is located in Gali Qasim Jaan.
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