PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Rulers
were...
- Nawab DAUD KHAN
- .....
- Nawab Bahadur BAZID KHAN Muzaffar Jang (grandson).
- Nawab MAHMUD KHAN, founder of Mahmudabad in about 1677.
- ......
- Nawab MUHAMMAD IMAM KHAN, married married a Shi‘i
Shaykhzadah woman, and had issue. He died in the 1760's.
- Nawab MUHAMMAD IKRAM ALI KHAN (qv)
- Nawab MUHAMMAD MAZHAR ALI KHAN, converted to Shi‘ism,
inheriting the smaller portion of
the estate in Belehra, Bara Banki, married and had issue, the Rajas of
Bilehra
and Paintipur. He died in the 1790's.
- Nawab MUHAMMAD IKRAM ALI KHAN, remained Sunni, married and
had issue. He died about 1775.
- Raja SARFRAZ ALI KHAN (qv)
- Raja MUSAHIB ALI KHAN (qv)
- Raja SARFRAZ ALI KHAN, died sp.
- Raja MUSAHIB ALI KHAN, built up his holdings to 232
villages and established good
relations with the Awadh court by supporting it against rebels,
although he remained a Sunni, he initiated mourning rites for the Imam
Husayn in a building inside the fort at Sitapur. He died spm
1810 (1819).
- Rani ....... (wife) 1810/1838, adopted a relative from the
Belhra branch in 1836, she died 1838.
- Raja NAWAB ALI KHAN 1838/1858, adopted from Bellehra,
(brother of Raja Ibad Ali
Khan, the Raja of Paintipur), married
and had issue. He died
1858.
- Amiruddaula Saidul ul-Mulk Raja Sir Khanzada MUHAMMED
AMIR HASAN KHAN, Khan Bahadur Amirul Omara Saeedul Mulk Muzzafar Jung
Ghanzanfaru-daula (qv)
- Amiruddaula Saidul ul-Mulk Raja Sir Khanzada MUHAMMED
AMIR HASAN
KHAN, Khan Bahadur Khan Amirul Omara Saeedul Mulk Muzzafar Jung
Ghanzanfaru-daula 1858/1902, born 1849, took over management of the
Taluq in March
1867, K.C.I.E., President of the British Indian Association 1882/1890,
Vice President of the British Indian Association 1871/1877 and
1897/1900,
married and had issue, two sons and two daughters. He died 1902 (1908?).
- Hon. Maharaja Khan Bahadur Sir MOHAMMED ALI MOHAMMED
KHAN,
Khan Bahadur Amirul Omara Saeedul Mulk Muzaffar Jung Ghanzanfaru-daula
(qv)
- Rajkumari Banib Zaadi Mohammad-un-Nisa Begum, died sp.
- Rajkumari Banib Zaal Begum, died sp.
- Rajkumar Mohammad Ali Ahmed Khan, died sp.
- Hon. Maharaja Khan Bahadur Sir MOHAMMED ALI MOHAMMED KHAN,
Khan Bahadur
Khan Amirul Omara Saeedul Mulk Muzzafar Jung Ghanzanfaru-daula
1902/1931,
born May 1879 in Amrota, Sitapur District, K.C.S.I. [cr.1922], C.S.I.
[cr.1921],
K.C.I.E. [cr.1909], married 1stly, 1906, and had issue, five children.
He died
23rd March
1931.
- Maharajkumari Bibi Baqar-un-Nisa
- Maharajkumari Bibi Sadiq-un-Nisa
- Nawab Raja MOHAMMAD AMIR AHMED KHAN, Khan Bahadur Khan
Amirul
Omara
Saeedul Mulk
Muzzafar Jung Ghanzanfaru-daula (qv)
- Maharajkumar Mohammed Amir Haider
Khan
- Rajkumar Mahmud Hasan Khan (by second wife)
- Nawab Raja MOHAMMAD AMIR AHMED KHAN, Khan Bahadur Khan
Amirul
Omara
Saeedul Mulk
Muzzafar Jung Ghanzanfaru-daula 1931/1973, born 5th November 1914,
educated
at Lucknow and then in England, he formed the All India Muslim Students
Federation in 1937, served as Honorary Treasurer of the Muslim League
for
several years, placing all his wealth at its disposal. He migrated to
Iraq in 1947 after Independence and later to Pakistan in 1957, but was
disillusioned by the political turmoil there; he travelled initially
throughout the Middle East and later migrated to the UK, settling down
in London where he remained Director of the Islamic Culture Centre from
1968 till his death in 1973; he was an accomplished poet in Urdu and
Farsi; he married in 1928,
Rani Kaniz Abdi Saheba of Bellehra (collateral branch of the Mahmudabad
Royal Family),
and had issue. He died 14th October 1973 in London and was buried at
Mashhad
in Iran. (Mahmudabad House, Clifton Road, Karachi, Pakistan)
- Rajkumari Amatul Husain Imam
- Rajkumari Rabab Mehdi
- Nawab Raja MOHAMMED AMIR MOHAMMED KHAN, Khan Bahadur Khan
Amirul Omara Saeedul
Mulk Muzzafar Jung Ghanzanfaru-daula (qv)
- Nawab Raja MOHAMMED AMIR MOHAMMED KHAN, Khan Bahadur Khan
Amirul Omara Saeedul
Mulk Muzzafar Jung Ghanzanfaru-daula (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Raja KAZIM ALI KHAN, Raja of Bellehra, married and had
issue.
- Rajkumar Habib Ali Khan, born 1894 in Bellehra, married
1929 in Lucknow, Munir Fatima, and had issue.
- Kunwar Mohammed Raza Kazim
- Kunwar Abul-Hasan Kazim
- Kunwar Baqir Kazim
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