BHOPAL

The Mirazi Khel Dynasty

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1926 - 1960 Major-General H.H. Sikander Saulat, Iftikhar ul-Mulk, Al-Haj Nawab Hafiz Muhammad Hamidu'llah Khan Bahadur, Nawab of Dar ul-Iqbal-i-Bhopal, GCSI (3.6.1932, CSI 1.1.1921), GCIE (3.6.1929), CVO (17.3.1922), Assoc. KStJ. b. at the Sardar Manzil Palace, Bhopal, 9^th September 1894, only surviving son of H.H. Sikander Saulat, Iftikhar ul-Mulk, Nawab Sultan Kaikhusrau Jahan Begum Sahiba, Nawab Begum of Dar ul-Iqbal-i-Bhopal, GCSI, GCIE, CI, GBE, by her husband, H.H. 'Ali Jah, Ihtisham ul-Mulk, Nasir ud-Daula, Nawab Ahmad 'Ali Khan Bahadur, Sultan Dulha Sahib, educ. Qaida-i-Baghdadi, and Alexandra Sch., Bhopal, MAO Coll., Aligarh and Allahabad Univ. (BA 1915, Hon. LLD). Page-of-Honour to the Viceroy at the Delhi Durbar 1903, Cmsnd. Bhopal State Forces, served briefly in the Great War in Aden 1914-1915, Presdt. Bhopal City Municipal Brd. 1915-1916, Chief Sec. 1916-1922, MEC for Finance, Law & Justice 1922-1926, C-in-C Bhopal State Forces 1924-1951. Recognised as Heir Apparent by the GOI, 20th March 1926. Succeeded on the abdication of his mother, 29th April 1926. Crowned by her at Fatehgarh, Bhopal, 9th June 1926. Delegate to the first and second Round Table Conferences in London 1930-1931, Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes 1931-1932 and 1944-1947 (Mbr. Standing Ctte. 1926-1947). Signed the instrument of accession to the Dominion of India, 12^th (made public 26^th) August 1947. Merged Bhopal into India as a separate entity on 30^th May 1949, the state remaining so until absorbed into Madhya Pradesh on 1^st November 1956. Hon. Lieut. IA 2/6/1923, attached to The Poona Horse (17th Queen Victoria's Own Cavalry), prom. Hon. Lt-Col. 9/3/1927, Hon. Col. 19/7/1939-1960, served in WW2 1939-1945, present at the Battles of Keren and El Alamein, and Hon. Maj-Gen. 15/10/1946, Hon. Colonel 4^th (Bhopal) Battalion, 16^th Punjab Regiment, IA 15/10/1943-1960. Hon. Air Cdre. RAF 1/2/1943, prom. Hon. Air Vice-Marshal 15/8/1945. Hon. ADC to the King-Emperor Edward VIII as Prince of Wales 1921-1922, to the Viceroy of India 1922-1926, and to the King-Emperor George VI, 25/1/1946-1952. Chancellor of the Muslim Univ. Aligarh 1930-1935 (Trustee 1916); Freeman of the City of Edinburgh 1931; Presdt. Brd. of Control for Cricket in India 1935-1937; Governor of the Bhopal Girls Sch. Endowment and the Bhopal Jahangiria & Suleimania Sch. Endowments 1926-1961, etc. Rcvd: Delhi Durbar (1903 and 1911), Prince of Wales's Visit Medal (1922), Silver Jubilee (1935), Coron. (1937 and 1953), 39/45, Africa & Burma stars, Defence, War, IGS (1945) and Indian Independence (1947) medals. m. (first) at Peshawar, Punjab, 5^th September 1905 (nikah), H.H. Nawab Maimoona Sultan Shah Bano Begum Sahiba (b. at Peshawar, 1900; d. at Bhopal, 14^th May 1982, bur. there), MP (Lok Sabha) for Bhopal 1957-1966, author of "A Trip to Europe" (1913), daughter of Shahzada Humayun, great grandson of H.M. Shah Shuja ul-Mulk of Afghanistan, by his wife, a sister of Colonel Nawab Sir Muhammad Aslam Khan, Sardar Bahadur, KCIE, KCVO, OBI. m. (second) at Bhopal, 1946, H.H. Nawab Shah Dulhan Aftab Jahan Begum Sahiba (b. ca. 1914), who settled in the UK and became a British subject after 1961, daughter of a nobleman from Bhopal. He d. at his country residence at Nichey-ka-Bagh, Bhopal, 4^th February 1960 (bur. there at the Sofia Masjid), having had issue, three daughters by his first wife:

• 1) Colonel Suraya Jah, Nawab Gowhar-i-Taj, Abida Sultan Begum Sahiba. b. at Qasr-e-Sultani Palace, Ahmedabad, Bhopal, 28^th August 1913, educ privately and at Sikandaria Girls Sch., Ahmedabad, Bhopal. Appointed as Heir Apparent with the titles of Suraya Jah and Nawab Gowhar-i-Taj and recognised as such by the GOI, 15^th March 1928. Colonel-in-Chief Gowhar-i-Taj Infantry. Vice-Presdt. State Cncl. 1935-1949, Chief Sec. of the Sharf-i-Khas. Migrated to Pakistan in 1950 and served as that country's delegate to the UN General Assembly at New York 1954, Ambassador to Brazil & Min. Plen. to Chile 1957-1959, Presdt. Karachi Cncl. of the Muslim League 1964. An active politician and supporter of Miss Fatima Jinnah's candidacy for Presdt. of Pakistan. Contested the succession on the death of her father, 4^th February 1960, but the GOI eventually ruled against her on the grounds that she had become a foreign citizen, 13^th January 1961. Author "Baghi Shehzadi ki Yaadein" (1990). Vice-Presdt. Karachi Zonal Muslim League 1963, Mbr. Cncl. of the Muslim League 1963, Princess of Wales' Ladies Club (Bhopal), Bhopal Yacht Club, Bombay Flying Club 1935, Calcutta Flying Club 1939, etc. Rcvd: Hamidia Gold Medal (21.2.1946), Silver Jubilee (1935), and Coron. (1937) medals. m. at Qasr-e-Sultani Palace, Ahmedabad, Bhopal, 18^th June 1926 (nikah) and 1933 (rukhsati), as his first wife (sep. 1934), 'Ali Jah, Anis ud-Daula, Nawab Muhammad Sarwar 'Ali Khan Bahadur, Firuz Jang, Nawab of Kurwai (b. at Kurwai Fort, 1^st December 1901; d. there, December 1986, bur. New Cemetery), only son of Mushfiq Meherban-i-Dostan Nawab Muhammad Yaqub 'Ali Khan, Nawab of Kurwai, by his wife, Nawab Umar un-nisa Begum Sahiba [Sarkar Amma], sometime Regent for her son, daughter of H.H. Nawab Muhammad Ibrahim 'Ali Khan Bahadur, Nawab of Malerkotla. She d. at Omar Memorial Hospital, Karachi, Sind, 11^th May 2002 (bur. at Malir), having had issue, an only son:
  • a) Nawabzada Shaharyar Muhammad Khan. b. at Rahat Manzil Palace, Bhopal, 29^th March 1934 (s/o Abida Begum), educ. Grosvenor Sch., Roehampton; RIMC, Dehra Dun; Daly Coll., Indore; Oundle Sch., Oundle, Peterborough; Corpus Christi Coll., Cambridge (LLB 1956); and the Fletcher Sch. of Law & Diplomacy, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Employed with Burmah Shell Oil 1956-1957, entered Pakistan Foreign Service 1957, Third Sec. London 1960-1962, Second Sec. Tunis 1962-1966, Head of the Permanent Mission to the UN Geneva 1970-1971, Dir. MFA at Islamabad 1969-1970, Dep. High Cmsnr. London 1971-1975, Dir-Gen. MFA 1975-1977, Additional Sec-Gen. MFA 1982-1987, Ambassador to Jordan 1977-1982, and the Court of St James's 1987-1989, High Cmsnr. 1987-1990, Sec-Gen. MFA 1990-1994, UN Special Representative in Rwanda 1994-1996, Chair. Foreign Service Reforms Cttee. 1996-1997, Presdt. Refugee Cttee. 1997-1998, Mgr. Pakistan Cricket team 1999, Ambassador to France 1999-2003, Chair. Pakistan Cricket Brd. 2003-2007. Author of "The Begums of Bhopal: A Dynasty of Women Rulers in Raj India" (2000), "The Shallow Graves of Rwanda" (2001), and "The Memoirs of a Rebel Princess" (2004). m. July 1958, Najma Begum Sahiba [Minnal], younger daughter of H.E. Akhtar Hussain, of Karachi, sometime Governor of West Pakistan and Ambassador to the USSR, from a family originally from Rai Bareli, UP, by his wife, Zakia Begum, from a Pathan family. He has issue, three sons and one daughter:
    • i) Sahibzada Faiz Muhammad Khan. b. at Karachi, Pakistan, 15^th August 1959, educ. LSE, London. Attorney. Mbr. British Pakistan Law Cncl. m. at Islamabad, Pakistan, December 1992, Sara Sultan Begum Sahiba, daughter of Mian Ghulam Farid ud-din Riaz, of Lahore, by his wife, Nawabzadi Kumari-Qudsia Begum Sahiba, younger daughter of H.H. Sikander Saulat, Iftikhar ul-Mulk, Nawab Mehr-i-Taj Sajida Sultan Begum Sahiba, Nawab Begum of Dar ul-Iqbal-i-Bhopal. He has issue, one daughter:
      • (1) Sahibzadi Aaliya Sultan Begum. b. 1994. opyright© Christopher Buyers
    • ii) Sahibzada Omar 'Ali Khan. b. at London, 28^th January 1962, educ. Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Sometime teacher at Beacon House Sch. in Islamabad, MD of the 'Hot-Spot' ice cream chain since 1997, and a writer-director of horror movies including "Zibahkhana" (2007).
    • iii) Sahibzada Yawar 'Ali Khan. b. at Islamabad, Pakistan, December 1969, educ. Univ. of Kent at Canterbury, and Cambridge Univ (Ph.D. Anthropology 2003). Mbr of the faculty of faculty at Lahore the School of Humanities & Social Sciences of Univ. of Management Sciences [LUMS]. m. at Islamabad, Pakistan, December 1992, Sahibzadi Mariyam Zamani Begum (b. 1967), elder daughter of Shaikh Shri Muhammad Said Mian Sahib, of Mangrol, by his wife, Nawabzadi Kaiser Zaman Begum Sahiba, only daughter of 'Ali Jah, Anis ud-Daula, Nawab Muhammad Sarwar 'Ali Khan Bahadur, Firuz Jang, Nawab of Kurwai. He has issue, one daughter:
      • (1) Sahibzadi Alina Khan. b. at Bhopal, 14^th June 2005.
    • i) Sahibzadi Faiza Sultan Begum. b. at London, 3^rd December 1974.
• 2) Nawabzadi Mehr-i-Taj Sajida Sultan Begum Sahiba, who succeeded as H.H. Sikander Saulat, Iftikhar ul-Mulk, Nawab Mehr-i-Taj Sajida Sultan Begum Sahiba, Nawab Begum of Dar ul-Iqbal-i-Bhopal - see below. opyright© Christopher Buyers
• 3) Nawabzadi Qamar-i-Taj Dulhan Rabia Sultan Begum Sahiba. b. at Qasr-e-Sultani Palace, Ahmedabad, Bhopal, 21^st November 1916, educ privately and at Sikandaria Girls Sch., Ahmedabad, Bhopal. m. (first) at Qasr-e-Sultani Palace, Ahmedabad, Bhopal, January 1936, as his first wife (div. February 1940), Colonel Yamin ul-Mulk, Imad ud-Daula, Nawabzada Muhammad Rashid uz-Zafar Khan Bahadur (b. at Jahan Numa Palace, Bhopal, 27^th November 1907; d. at Bhopal, 25^th August 1961), third son of her paternal uncle, Major-General Al-Haj Mohsin ul-Mulk, Nawab Hafiz Muhammad Ubaidu'llah Khan Sahib Bahadur, CSI, by his wife, Shaharyar Dulhan Begum Sahiba, second daughter of Sardar Wilayat 'Ali Khan - see above. m. (second) at Bhopal, 22^nd November 1940, Lieutenant-Colonel Agha Muhammad Nadir Mirza (d. February 1987), Lieut. Bhopal State Forces 17/1/1941, Personal ADC to the Nawab 1940-1949, prom. Maj. 20/4/1944, Lt-Col. Gowhar-i-Taj Inf. 1945, a nephew of Amin ul-Mulk, Sir Miras Mirza Muhammad Ismail, KCIE, OBE, CStJ, sometime Chief Minister of Mysore. She d. at Bhopal, February 2001, having had issue, one son and one daughter by her second husband:
  • a) Sahibzada Muhammad Nasir Mirza. m. February 1987, ...
  • a) Sahibzadi Faeza Sultan Begum. b. 1945. m. Sardar Muhammad Akbar Khan, of Lahore, youngest son of Pari Bia, cousin of her mother:
    • i) Sardar Taimur Khan. m. an Indian lady, and has issue.
    • ii) Sardar Nadir Khan. m. an Indian lady, and has issue.
    • i) …Begum. m. and lives in Bhopal.

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1960 - [1995] H.H. Sikander Saulat, Iftikhar ul-Mulk, Nawab Mehr-i-Taj Sajida Sultan Begum Sahiba, Nawab Begum of Dar ul-Iqbal-i-Bhopal. b. at Qasr-e-Sultani Palace, Ahmedabad, Bhopal, 4^th August 1915, second daughter of Major-General H.H. Sikander Saulat, Iftikhar ul-Mulk, Haji Nawab Hafiz Muhammad Hamidu'llah Khan Bahadur, Nawab of Dar ul-Iqbal-i-Bhopal, GCSI, GCIE, CVO, Assoc. KStJ, by his first wife, H.H. Nawab Maimuna Sultan Shah Banu Begum Sahiba, educ privately. Recognised by the Government of India as ruler of Bhopal, 13^th January 1961 with effect from 4^th February 1960. Installed at Qasr-e-Sultani Palace, Ahmedabad, Bhopal, 19^th February 1961. The GOI amended the Indian Constitution to remove his position as a "ruler" and his right to receive privy-purse payments, 28^th December 1971. Presdt. Women's Hockey Assoc. 1961; Vice-Presdt. Bharatiyya Kala Kandra; Governor of the Bhopal Girls Sch. Endowment and the Bhopal Jahangiria & Suleimania Sch. Endowments 1961-1975, and of the Nawab Sultan Jahan Begum Educational Endowment (Bhopal) 1975-1995; Founder Mbr. Ghalib Soc., etc. m. at Bhopal, 23^rd April 1939, Iftikhar ud-Daula, Iftikhar ul-Mulk, Nawab Muhammad Iftikhar 'Ali Khan Bahadur, Hanifi ul-Muzhab, Nawab of Pataudi (b. at Pataudi House, Daryagunj, Delhi, 17^th March 1910; d. while playing polo, at Delhi, 5^th January 1952), elder son and successor of Nawab Muhammad Ibrahim 'Ali Khan Bahadur, Hanifi ul-Muzhab, Nawab of Pataudi, by his wife, Nawab Shahar Bano Begum Sahiba, second daughter of H.E. The Hon. Fakhr ud-Daula, Nawab Sir Amir ud-din Ahmad Khan, Nawab of Loharu, KCIE. She d. at New Delhi, 5^th September 1995 (bur. at Bhopal), having had issue, one son and three daughters:

• 1) Padma Shri Nawab Muhammad Mansur 'Ali Khan Bahadur, Hanifi ul-Muzhab, Nawab of Pataudi, who succeeded as H.H. Padma Shri Nawab Muhammad Mansur 'Ali Khan Bahadur, Hanifi ul-Muzhab, Nawab of Pataudi, Head of the Royal House of Bhopal - see below.
• 1) Nawabzadi Saleha Sultan Begum Sahiba. b. at Bhopal, 14^th January 1940, educ. St George's Sch., Switzerland. m. at Delhi, 1958, Nawab Muhammad Bashir ud-din Khan Bahadur, Bashir Yar Jang, Aeronautic Engineer employed CSIR, son of Major H.E. Wali ud-Daula, Nawab Muhammad Wali ud-din Khan Bahadur, Waliyat Jang, of the Paigah family, sometime Presdt. of the Council in Hyderabad. She had issue, four sons - see India Vassals (Paigah).
• 2) Nawabzadi Sabiha Sultan Begum Sahiba. b. at Bhopal, 30^th March 1942. m. 1964, Sahibzada Mir Arjumand 'Ali Khan, son of Nawab Mir Akbar 'Ali Khan Bahadur, Akbar Nawaz Jung, and grandson of Nawab Mir Dilawar 'Ali Khan Bahadur, Tilawat Jang, sometime Public Works Mbr., Hyderabad State Cncl. She had issue, two daughters - see India (Hyderabad).
• 3) Nawabzadi Kumari-Qudsia Begum Sahiba. b. 1946, educ. St George's Sch., Switzerland. m. 1967, Mian Ghulam Farid ud-din Riaz, educ. Cambridge Univ., Mbr. Brd. of Governor The Quaid-e-Azam Library, Lahore [6-A, Chamba House Lane, GOR-1, Lahore], son of Ghulam Muin ud-din Riaz, of Lahore, sometime Sec. Ministry of Fuel, Power & Natural Resources. She d. 1989, having had issue, including:
  • a) Iftikhar Riaz.
  • a) Sara Sultan Begum. m. at Islamabad, Pakistan, December 1992, Sahibzada Faiz Muhammad Khan (b. 1959), eldest son of Nawabzada Shaharyar Muhammad Khan, by his wife, Najma Begum Sahiba. She has issue, one daughters - see above.

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[1995]  H.H. Padma Shri Nawab Muhammad Mansur 'Ali Khan Bahadur, Hanifi ul-Muzhab, Nawab of Pataudi, Head of the Royal House of Bhopal. b. at Bhopal, 5^th January 1941, only son of H.H. Sikander Saulat, Iftikhar ul-Mulk, Nawab Mehr-i-Taj Sajida Sultan Begum Sahiba, Nawab Begum of Dar ul-Iqbal-i-Bhopal, by her husband, Nawab Muhammad Iftikhar 'Ali Khan Bahadur, Hanifi ul-Muzhab, Nawab of Pataudi, educ. Locker's Park Prep. Sch., Herts., Winchester, Hants., and Balliol Coll., Oxford. Succeeded on the death of his father as Nawab of Pataudi, 5^th January 1952. Capt. Oxford Univ. Cricket Team 1961, and of the Indian Cricket Team 1962-1971, ICC Match Referee 1993. Hon ADC to the Presdt. of India 1967. Succeeded on the death of his mother as Head of the Royal House of Bhopal, 5^th September 1995. Chief Mutawali of the Auqaf-e-Shahi 1995-2007, Patron The Nawab of Bhopal & Pataudi Polo Tournament since 1997, Presdt. Indian Cricket Players' Assoc. since 2002. Rcvd: Padma Shri (x.1.1967), Arjun Award (x.5.1965). m. at the Belvedere Estate, Calcutta, 27^th December 1968, H.H. Nawab Ayesha Sultan Begum Sahiba (b. at Hyderabad, Deccan, 8^th December 1946), née Sharmila Tagore, the distinguished film actress, Chair. Indian Central Brd. of Film Certification since 2004, rcvd: Cdr. of the Order of Arts & Letters of France (2000), daughter of Shri Jitendra Nath Tagore, of Calcutta, relative of Sir Rabindranath Tagore. He had issue, one son and two daughters:

• 1) Nawabzada Muhammad Saif 'Ali Khan. b. at Bhopal, 16^th August 1970, as Sajid 'Ali Khan, educ. Locker's Park Prep. Sch., Herts., and Winchester, Hants. Renamed Saif, three weeks after his birth. Film actor. m. October 1991, Amrita [Begum Saif 'Ali Khan] (b. 9^th February 1958), film actress, granddaughter of The Hon. Sardar Bahadur Sir Sobha Singh, OBE, of Hadali, Sargodha, Punjab, and daughter of Sardar Shivendra Singh Virk, of Jandiala, in Amritsar, Punjab, a Sikh, by his wife, Sardani Rukshana Sultana, a Muslim. He has issue, one son and daughter:
  • a) Sahibzada Ibrahim 'Ali Khan. b. October 2001.
  • a) Sahibzadi Sarah Begum Sahiba. b. September 1994.
• 1) Nawabzadi Saba Begum Sahiba. b. at Delhi, 1975, educ. British Sch. and Delhi Coll. of Arts, New Delhi, Gemological Inst. of America. Jewellery designer with Vijay Jewellers 1998. Chief Mutawali of the Auqaf-e-Shahi since 2007.
• 2) Nawabzadi Soha Begum Sahiba [Soha Ali Khan Pataudi]. b. at Delhi, 4^th October 1978, educ. British Sch., Delhi, Balliol Coll., Oxford (BA), and LSE, London (MA). Employed with Ford Foundation, and Investment Consultant at Citibank, now a Bollywood film actress.

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