BHOPAL
The Mirazi Khel Dynasty
GENEALOGY
- 1) Nawab Sultan Shah Jahan Begum Sahiba, Nawab Begum of Dar ul-Iqbal-i-Bhopal (d/o Sikander Shah) - see below.
- 1)
Sardar Dastgir Muhammad Khan. Proclaimed Nawab at
Bhopal, by his paternal relatives, after the
death of his father, 9th November 1844
(not recognised by the GOI). He had issue, two
sons:
- a) Sardar Alamgir Muhammad Khan. m. at Bhopal, 1877, … Begum Sahiba. He had issue, one daughter, who d. young.
- b)
Sardar Sadr Muhammad Khan. He had issue,
a son:
- i) Mian Kadir Muhammad Khan.
1860 - 1868 H.H. Nawab
Sikander Begum Sahiba, Nawab Begum of Dar
ul-Iqbal-i-Bhopal, GCSI (25.6.1861). b. at Gauhar
Mahal, Bhopal, 10th September 1817, only
daughter of H.H. Nasir ud-Daula, Nawab Nasir Muhammad
Khan Bahadur, Nawab Regent of Dar ul-Iqbal-i-Bhopal, by
his wife, H.H. Nawab Qudsia Begum Sahiba, CI, sometime
Regent of Bhopal, eldest daughter of H.H. Nawab Ghaus
Muhammad Khan Bahadur, Nawab of Dar ul-Iqbal-i-Bhopal, educ
privately. Became Regent for her infant daughter, 3rd
January 1847. Installed at Bhopal, 27th July
1847. Recognised as the sole ruler of Bhopal from 30th
April 1860. Raised to a permanent salute of 19-guns, 1st
November 1861. Granted a sanad confirming
succession in accordance with Islamic laws, 11th
March 1862. A ruler well ahead of her time, who eschewed purdah,
and began a series of fundamental reforms and
improvements. She reorganised her army, administration
and revenue collection along modern lines, introduced a
modern judicial system, established a nominated
parliament to represent different groups, built railways,
founded a hospital, built dispensaries and schools,
installed water works, and lit the capital with gaslight.
Scholars, poets and men of learning were encouraged to
settle and to help expand education. She visited every
village and hamlet in her domains during her reign,
arranged for cheap agricultural loans for the peasantry,
and established a forestry department to conserve the
forests. m. at Islamnagar Fort, 18th
April 1835, H.H. Nasir ud-Daula, Nawab Jahangir Muhammad
Khan Bahadur, Shamsher Jang, Nawab of Dar
ul-Iqbal-i-Bhopal - see above. She d. from kidney
failure, at Bhopal, 30th October 1868 (bur.
Farhat-Afza Bagh) (succ. by her only surviving
child):- 1) Nawab Sultan Shah Jahan Begum Sahiba, Nawab Begum of Bhopal - see below.
1844-1860 and
1868-1901 H.H. Nawab Sultan Shah Jahan Begum Sahiba,
Nawab Begum of Dar ul-Iqbal-i-Bhopal, GCSI (31.5.1872),
CI (1.1.1878). b. at Islamnagar, 29th
July 1838, only surviving child of H.H. Nawab Sikander
Begum Sahiba, Nawab Begum of Dar ul-Iqbal-i-Bhopal, GCSI,
by her husband, H.H. Nasir ud-Daula, Nawab Jahangir
Muhammad Khan Bahadur, Shamsher Jang, Nawab of Dar
ul-Iqbal-i-Bhopal, educ. privately. Proclaimed by
the British authorities, as successor to her father, 11th
April 1845. Reigned under the Regency of her mother, who
was recognised as the sole ruler of Bhopal from 30th
April 1860 until her death. Installed as Heir Apparent, 1st
May 1860. She threw off purdah on the death of her
husband in 1867. Finally succeeded on the death of her
mother, 2nd November 1868, and installed at
the Fort, Bhopal, 16th November 1868. Attended
the Imperial Durbar at Delhi in 1877. Instrumental in
beginning construction of Woking Mosque, in Surrey, the
Taj ul-Masjid, the largest Mosque in India, and Aligarh
Muslim University. An Urdu poet under the pen-name of
'Tajwar', and a Persian poet under the pen-name 'Shirin'.
Author of "mathnawi Saddiq ul-Bayan", "Taj
ul-Kalam", "Tehzib un-nissa", "Taj
ul-Iqbal", "Diwan-i- Shirin",
"Khazinat ul-Laghat", "Loghat Shah
Jahani", etc. Rcvd: KIH gold medal (1877),
Diamond Jubilee medal (1897), and the Order of Nobility (Nishan-i-Majidi)
1st class in brilliants of Turkey (1892). m.
(first) at Bhopal, 26th July 1855, as his
third wife, General H.H. Nasir ud-Daula, Nawab Baqi
Muhammad Khan Bahadur, Umrao Dulha, Nusrat Jang (b.
1823; d. at Bhopal, 16th July 1867, bur.
Nishat Afza, Bhopal), granted the titles of Nazir
ud-Daula, Khan Bahadur, Nawab and Umrao
Dulha together with a personal salute of 17-guns
1856, C-in-C Bhopal State Forces 1850-1855, served in
Indian Mutiny, younger son of General Sardar Bahadur
Muhammad Khan, sometime C-in-C Bhopal state forces. m.
(second) at Shaukat Mahal, Bhopal, 8th May
1871, as his second wife, H.H. Wala Jah, Amir ul-Mulk,
Nawab Sayyid 'Abu'l-Taiyib Muhammad Saddiq Hasan Khan
Bahadur [Mir Dabir], Nawab Consort of Bhopal (b.
at Bareilly, 14th October 1832; d. at
the Taj Mahal, Shahjahanbad, 20th January
1890, leaving issue by several wives), Supt. of
Education, Private Sec. to the Begum, 1868-1871, granted
the titles of Wallah Jah, Amir ul-Mulk, Bahadur,
and Nawab together with a personal salute of
17-guns 15th October 1872, Assist. Minister
and Mutamid ul-Moham 1871-1874, Chief Minister
1874-1884, deprived of his titles and dismissed from all
his official posts by order of the Viceroy 1884 (restored
posthumously), younger son of Sayyid Aulad Hassan Khan,
of Kanauj, by his wife, Bibi Najib un-nisa, daughter of
Mufti Muhammad 'Awd. She d. at the Taj Mahal,
Shahjahanbad, Bhopal, 16th June1901 (bur.
Nishat Afza Bagh), having had issue, two daughters:- 1) H.H. Sikander Saulat, Iftikhar ul-Mulk, Nawab Sultan Kaikhusrau Jahan Begum Sahiba, Nawab Begum of Dar ul-Iqbal-i-Bhopal (d/o Baqi Muhammad Khan) - see below.
- 2) Sahibzadi Sulaiman Jahan Begum Sahiba. b. at Bhopal, 26th November 1860 (d/o Baqi Muhammad Khan). She d. at Bhopal, from smallpox, 8th June 1865 (bur. Nur Bagh).
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