PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Predecessor
state was founded in 1454 when Sheikh Sadruddin Sadr-i-Jahan married a
daughter of Sultan BAHLUL LODI of Delhi (1451/1489), and was given a
number
of villages in jagir. Bayezid Khan (died 1657) was the first Nawab and
founder of the Princely State. Rulers were...
- Sheikh SADRUDDIN Sadr-i-Jahan 1454/1508
- Khan MUHAMMED SHAH 1538/1545
- Khwaja MADUD KHAN 1545/1566
- Nawab FATEH MUHAMMED KHAN 1566/1600
- Nawab BAYEZID KHAN 1600/1657, died 1657.
- Nawab FEROZ KHAN 1657/1672
- Nawab SHER MUHAMMED KHAN 1672/1712
- Nawab GHULAM HUSAIN KHAN 1712/1717
- Nawab JAMAL KHAN 1717/1755
- Nawab BHIKAN KHAN 1755/1763
- Nawab BAHADUR KHAN 1763/1766
- Nawab UMAR KHAN 1766/1780
- Nawab ASADULLAH KHAN 1780/1784
- Nawab ATAULLAH KHAN 1784/1810
- Nawab WAZIR ALI KHAN 1810/1821
- Nawab AMIR ALI KHAN 1821/1845
- Nawab MAHBUB ALI KHAN 1845/1859, married Maher Begum, and
had issue.
- Nawab SIKANDER ALI KHAN 1859/1871 died sp 1871.
- HH Nawab MUHAMMED IBRAHIM ALI KHAN 1871/1908 (adoptive
son), born 1857
(1858), succeeded 16th July 1871 (#1),
died
1908.
- Lt.Col. HH Nawab Sir MUHAMMED AHMAD ALI KHAN Bahadur
1908/1947,
K.C.S.I.
[cr.1915], K.C.I.E. [cr.1921], born 10th September 1881 and
succeeded
23rd August 1908, Lieutenant Colonel (Indian Army). Died 16th
October
1947.
- HH Nawab IFTIKHAR ALI KHAN 1947/1982 , MLA, married 1stly
Sajida Begum,
MLA. He died 1982.
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Nawab BAHADUR KHAN (?grandson of Nawab Jamal Khan qv), died
1866
- ...... (son)
- Khan GHULAM MUHAMMED KHAN fl.1871, had issue.
- Eldest son, had issue.
- Khan MUHAMMED IHSAN ALI KHAN, born 1890, educated at
Aitchison Chiefs'
College, Lahore; had issue.
- Khan HASSAN ALI KHAN, married a daughter of the Nawab
of Kunjpura in
Karnal
Distt.
- Nawab Sir ZULFIQAR ALI KHAN, born 1875, Kt., C.S.I.
[cr.1911], married
and had issue. He died 26th May 1933.
- Honourable Nawabzada KHURSHID ALI KHAN, born 1909 at
Lahore, M.B.E.,
educated
at Aitchison Chiefs' College, Lahore and at Cambridge Preparatory
School,
Dehra Dun then privately in England.
- Begum Saheba Kudsia, born 2nd April 1909, member of the
Constituent
Assembly from 1946 to 1950. After the formation of the provisional
Parliament
she became its member in 1950-1952, member of the Rajya Sabha 1952/1956
and 1962/1968, elected to the
UP legislative council in 1958, represented Sandila assembly segment
in UP assembly many times, appointed
minister
in UP cabinet and held the portfolios of social welfare, animal
husbandry,
fisheries, waqfs and sports. She had been the president/office bearer
of almost all women's
voluntary organizations like All India Women's Conference, Council of
Child
Welfare, Council of Moral and Social Hygiene and Council of University
Women etc. In the field of education she contributed her full might to
spread it particularly among girls. She was the president of Karamat
Husain
Muslim Girls Degree College Lucknow, IR College Sandila and Aizaz
Rasool
Degree College, Sandila. President of the All India Women’s Hockey
Association. She was also the chairperson of UP
Minorities
Commission 1979/1989, married Nawab Syed AIZAZ RASUL
of Sandila, and had issue, 2 sons and 2 daughters. She died 1st August
2001 and was laid to rest with full state honours at her ancestral
graveyard
in Sandila, near Lucknow.(#2)
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