RAJAURI (Princely State)

 
AREA:  REVENUE:  ANNEXATION:  1846
LOCATION:  DYNASTY:  Jarral Rajput RELIGION:  Muslim
     
PRESENT RULER: 
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:  A Jarral Rajput family. Rulers were....
  1. Raja NURUDDIN KHAN [Neil Singh], founder of Rajauri in 13th century.
  2. Raja BAHAUDDIN KHAN [Bhag Singh] (son)
  3. Raja ANWAR KHAN [Awardan Singh] (son)
  4. Raja HAIBAT KHAN [Haibat Singh] (son)
  5. Raja SIRDAR KHAN [Ratan Singh]
  6. Raja SHAHSAWAR KHAN [Sansar Singh] (son)
  7. Raja DAULAT KHAN [Daulat Singh]
  8. Raja SHAHZAMAN KHAN [Chak Singh]
  9. Raja SHABUDDIN KHAN (son)
  10. Raja BAHRAM KHAN [Bahram Singh] (son)
  11. Raja BURHANUDDIN KHAN [Bairam Singh] (son)
  12. Raja BAHADUR KHAN [Bahadur Singh], brother of Mian Ali Khan.
  13. Raja SARMAST KHAN (son) c1580/c1600, helped the Mughals defeat the Raja of Kashmir, for which he received a valuable khilat and a jagir in Kashmir worth 50,000Rs from the Mughal Emperor who also ordered that the collateral relatives of the Raja were to be titled Mirza.
  14. Raja TAJUDDIN KHAN [Chatar Singh] c1600/1646, married and had issue. He died 1646.
    • Raja HAYATULLAH KHAN (qv)
    • Nawab Bai Begum [Raj Mahal Begum], married the Mughal Prince Muhammed Muinuddin (later Emperor Aurangzeb), and had issue.
  15. Raja HAYATULLAH KHAN 1646/1648
  16. Raja INAYATULLAH KHAN 1648/1660, married and had issue.
    • Raja HIDAYATULLAH KHAN (qv)
    • Mirza Rafiullah Khan
  17. Raja INAYATULLAH KHAN 1660/1683, 1680, married and had issue. He died 1760.
    • Mirza Rahmatullah Khan, married and had issue. He died vp.3
      • Raja IZZATULLAH KHAN (qv)
  18. Raja IZZATULLAH KHAN 1760/1765
  19. Raja KARAMULLAH KHAN 1765/1808, married and had issue. He died 1808.
    • Raja AGARULLAH KHAN (qv)
    • Raja RAHIMULLAH KHAN (qv)
  20. Raja AGARULLAH KHAN 1808/1825, state overun by the Sikhs, the Raja allowed to continue though subordinate, married and had issue. He died 1825.
    • Mirza Hasibullah Khan
  21. Raja RAHIMULLAH KHAN 1825/1847, born c1771, state annexed in 1846 and converted to a jagir for the maintenance of the Royal Family, he married and had issue. He died June 1847.
    • Older Brother, married and had issue. He died vp.
      • Raja HAMIDULLAH KHAN (qv)
    • Khan Bahadur Mirza Faqirullah Khan, moved with his family to Musaman Burj in Wazirabad in 1855, married and had issue.
      • Lt.Col. Mirza Khan Bahadur Attaullah Khan, born 1836 in Rajauri, served in the Hudson Horse and 9/10 Bengal Lancers, British Envoy (Ambassador) to Afghanistan in 1885, married the daughter of Nawab of Farakhabad and had issue.
        • Mirza Ikramullah Khan, born 1874 in Wazirabad, Member of Council of State for the Viceroy of India and Chairman of the District Board Gujranwala, married and had issue, 5 sons.
          • Lt. Col. Raja Abdullah Khan, born 1897, died 1969.
          • Raja Karam Ullah Khan, died 1973. 
          • Raja Aziz Ullah Khan, born 1905, died 1974.
          • Kanwar Saadat Ullah Khan, born 1911, married and had issue. He died 1965. 
            • Kanwar Irfanullah Raja
          • Kanwar Izaz Ullah Khan, born 1928.
      • Mirza Abdullah Khan
  22. Raja HAMIDULLAH KHAN 1847/1879, married and had issue. He died 1879.
    • Raja NIAMATULLAH KHAN (qv)
    • Raja WALIULLAH KHAN (qv)
  23. Raja NIAMATULLAH KHAN 1879/1904, married and had issue. He died 1904.
    • Raja AZIMULLAH KHAN (qv)
  24. Raja AZIMULLAH KHAN 1904/1905, died sp 1905 in the great earthquake which also claimed a further 28 members of this family.
  25. Raja WALIULLAH KHAN 1905/-
OTHER MEMBERS:
  • Raja Iftikhar Ullah Khan, Secretary of Labor (Punjab), married Rani Behjat Begum, daughter of Akbar Ali Khan Mirza, and had issue. He died 1987.
    • Raja Anwar Ullah Khan, born 1962, married Rani Barbara Begum, and has issue, 1 daughter.
  • Raja Akhtar Ullah Khan, married and had issue.
    • Raja Irfan Ullah Khan

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1.History of the Panjab Hill States, by J. Hutchison and J. Ph. Vogel, 1933, rept. 1999 (2 vols in 1), Delhi.