NAWABGANJ (Taluq)

 
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STATE:  ? DYNASTY:  Qizilbashi RELIGION:  Muslim
     
PRESENT RULER:  Nawab RAZA ALI KHAN QIZILBASH
married and has issue.
  • Nawabzada Fateh Ali Khan
  • Nawabzada Muzaffar Ali Khan
  • Nawabzada Jaan Ali Khan

PREDECESSORS and SHORT HISTORY:  The Qizilbash family has its roots in Iran and Afghanistan. According to one account, they came to India with the Mughal Emperor Humayun from Persia. Rulers were...
  • SARDAR ALI KHAN, Governor of Kandhar, received the Jagir of Hazara, married and had issue. He died 1770.
    • HIDAYAT ALI KHAN (qv)
  • HIDAYAT ALI KHAN, fl.1797, married and had issue.
    • Nawab ALI RAZA KHAN (qv)
    • Mohammed Raza Khan
  • Nawab ALI RAZA KHAN Bahadur, Nawab [cr.1862] for services to the British during their campaign in Afghanistan, Khan Bahadur [cr.1859], Honorary Magistrate of Lahore, married and had issue. He died 1864.
    • Nawab Sir NAWAZISH ALI KHAN (qv)
    • Nawab NASIR ALI KHAN (qv)
    • Nawabzada Sardar Nisar Ali Khan, married and had issue. He died 1890/1896.
      • Haji Nawab Sir FATEH ALI KHAN (qv)
  • Nawab Sir NAWAZISH ALI KHAN 1864/1890, born 1828 (#1), K.C.I.E. [cr.1888], C.I.E., title of Nawab granted 21st May 1866 as a personal distinction, died 1890.
  • Nawab NASIR ALI KHAN 1890/1896, title of Nawab made hereditary in 1892. He died 1896.
  • Haji Nawab Sir FATEH ALI KHAN 1896/1923, born 1862, K.C.I.E. [cr.1921], nominated a member of the Punjab Legistlative Council in 1897, member of the Governor General's Legislative Council 1904/-, President of the Punjab Chiefs Association; married and had issue. He died 28th October 1923.
    • Nawab NISAR ALI KHAN QIZILBASH (qv)
    • Nawabzadi Aliya Sultan Qizilbash, married Khan Bahadur Baqir Ali Khan Qizilbash, General Manager (ret'd.) of North Western Railway, Pakistan. She died July 1982.
    • Nawabzada Muzaffar Ali Khan Qizilbash, born 1908, a minister in the governments of the Punjab, West Pakistan and Pakistan, served as Minister for Industries in 1957 (October to December), served as Minister for Industries, Commerce and Parliamentary Affairs 1957/1958, appointed Chief Minister of West Pakistan in 1958 (March to October), later served as Finance Minister 1969/1971. He died September 1982.
    • Nawabzada Zulfiqar Ali Khan Qizilbash, born 1910, married Nawabzadi Taj-ul-nissa, sister of the Nawab of Cambay.
    • Nawabzada Talib Ali Khan Qizilbash, born 1913.
    • Nawabzadi Safia Sultan Qizilbash, married January 1936, HH Najum-ud-Daulah Mumtaz-ul-Mulk Momin Khan Bahadur Dilawar Jung Nawab Mirza HUSAIN YAWAR KHAN II Bahadur, the Nawab of Cambay.
  • Nawab NISAR ALI KHAN QIZILBASH 1923/1944, born 1901, Nawab [cr.1937]. He died 1944.
  • Nawab RAZA ALI KHAN QIZILBASH (see above)
 
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 p. 386