CAMBAY (Princely State)

(11 gun salute)

AREA:  1,015 km2 PRIVY PURSE: 138,000R ACCESSION: 10th June 1948
STATE: Bombay  DYNASTY: Najam-es-Sani RELIGION: Muslim (Shia)
VILLAGES: 88 (+2 towns)    
     
PRESENT RULER: HH Najum-ud-Daulah Mumtaz-ul-Mulk Momin Khan Bahadur Dilawar Jung Nawab Mirza MUHAMMED JA'AFAR ALI KHAN, 10th Nawab of Cambay
born 15th October 1936, married Begum Parvin Sultan Qizilbash, daughter of Sardar Baqir Ali Khan Qizilbash of Lahore.
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Founded in 1730. The rulers were...
  1. Mirza JA'AFAR MU'MIN KHAN I 1730/1742, last Muslim Governor of Gujarat.

  2. Nawab NURADDIN MUFTAKHAR KHAN 1742/1743

  3. Nawab JA'AFAR MU'MIN KHAN II 1743/1784

  4. Nawab MUHAMMED QULI KHAN 1784/1790, son of Najam Khan (poisoned 1748), married and had issue. He died 1790.
    • Nawab FATH ALI KHAN (qv)

  5. Nawab FATH ALI KHAN 1790/1823, eldest of three sons, he received the title Najum-ud-Daulah Mumtaz-ul-Mulk Khan Bahadur Dilawar Jung, and the rank of a commander of six thousand as Nawab of Cambay.

  6. Najum-ud-Daulah Mumtaz-ul-Mulk Momin Khan Bahadur Dilawar Jung Nawab BANDA ALI KHAN 1823/1841

  7. Najum-ud-Daulah Mumtaz-ul-Mulk Momin Khan Bahadur Dilawar Jung Nawab HUSAIN YAWAR KHAN I 1841/1880

  8. Najum-ud-Daulah Mumtaz-ul-Mulk Momin Khan Bahadur Dilawar Jung Nawab JA'AFAR ALI KHAN Bahadur 1880/1915 , born 1848, succeeded 11th June 1880 (#1), married 1stly, 1876, Bibi Gauhar Khanum Saheb, married 2ndly, 1882, Bibi Khurshid Jahan Begum. He died 21st January 1915.

  9. HH Najum-ud-Daulah Mumtaz-ul-Mulk Momin Khan Bahadur Dilawar Jung Nawab Mirza HUSAIN YAWAR KHAN II Bahadur 1915/- , born 16th May 1911, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot; married January 1936, Nawabzadi Safia Sultan Qizilbash, daughter of Nawab Sir Fateh Ali Khan Qizilbash of Lahore (see Nawabganj), and had issue.
    • HH Najum-ud-Daulah Mumtaz-ul-Mulk Momin Khan Bahadur Dilawar Jung Nawab Mirza MUHAMMED JA'AFAR ALI KHAN (qv)
    • Nawabzadi Batool Sultan, born 13th December 1938.
    • Nawabzada Asif Ali Khan (deceased).
    • Nawabzadi Shahwar Sultan, born 16th September 1941.
    • Nawabzada Reza Ali Khan, born 22nd December 1943.
    • Nawabzada Taqi Ali Khan, born 1st November 1945.

  10. HH Najum-ud-Daulah Mumtaz-ul-Mulk Momin Khan Bahadur Dilawar Jung Nawab Mirza MUHAMMED JA'AFAR ALI KHAN (see above)
 
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 , p.95