PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Founded
in
1585 by Shah Katur, after whom the dynasty takes its name.
He was purportedly a descendant of Genghis Khan. Feudatory
to Badakshan 1634/1712. Acceeded to Pakistan (the 1st
State to do so) in 1947, Rulers were...
- Mehtar SANGIN ALI
KHAN I, Mehtar of Chitral -/1570
- Mehtar SHAH KATUR,
Mehtar of Chitral 1570/1585
- Mehtar MUHTARAM
SHAH I, Mehtar of Chitral 1585/1615 and
1620/1630 (fled), died 1634.
- Mehtar MAHMUD,
Mehtar of Chitral 1615/1620
OCCUPIED BY
BADAKSHAN 1630/1712
- Mehtar SANGIN ALI
KHAN II [Sangalli], Mehtar of Chitral
1712/1745
- Mehtar GHULAM
MUHAMMAD BEG, Mehtar of Chitral 1745/1750 or
-/1700
- Mehtar SHAH ALAM,
Mehtar of Chitral 1750/1775 or 1700/-
- Mehtar MUHAMMAD
SHAFI, Mehtar of Chitral -/-
INTERREGNUM -/1755
- Mehtar FARAMARZ
SHAH, Mehtar of Chitral 1775/1790 or
1755/1770, Ruler of Yasin and Mastuj, died 1790.
- Mehtar SHAH AFZAL I,
Mehtar of Chitral 1790/1795 or 1770/1775
- Mehtar SHAH FADL
[Shah Fazil], Mehtar of Chitral 1795/1798 or 1775/1778
- Mehtar NAWAZ KHAN,
Mehtar of Chitral 1798/1809 or 1788/1798 and 1818/182x
or 1817/1833
- Mehtar SHAH
KHAIRALLAH KUSHQTE, Mehtar of Chitral
1798/1817
- Mehtar MUHTARAM
SHAH II, Mehtar of Chitral 1809/1818 or
1778/1788 and 1833/1837, died 1841.
- Mehtar AMAN al-MULK
I, Mehtar of Chitral 182x/1833
- Mehtar MUHTARAM
SHAH III, Mehtar of Chitral 1833/1837
- Mehtar SHAH
MUHAMMAD AFZAL II, Mehtar of Chitral
1837/1853, married and had issue. He died 1853.
- Mehtar Muhtaram Shah IV (qv)
- Mehtar Shah Muhammad Aman al-Mulk II (qv)
- Mehtar Shir Afzal Khan (qv)
- Mehtar MUHTARAM
SHAH IV, Mehtar of Chitral 1853/1857, died
1857/1858.
- Mehtar SHAH
MUHAMMAD AMAN al-MULK II, Mehtar of Chitral
1858/1892, born 1820, married (amongst others), a
daughter of Asmar Khan, an Afghan Prince, and had
issue, about 25 sons and 47 daughters. He died 30th
August 1892.
- HH Mehtar Sir Muhammad Shuja ul-Mulk (by the
Afghani Princess)(qv)
- Mitarjao Bahram al-Mulk, married and had issue.
He died 1892.
- Mitarjao Shah Mulk, died 1892.
- Mitarjao Wazir al-Mulk, died 1892.
- Mehtar Muhammad
Afzal ul-Mulk (qv)
- Mehtar Muhammad Nizam ul-Mulk (qv)
- Mehtar Muhammad Amir ul-Mulk (by the Afghani
Princess) (qv)
- Mitarjao Amin al-Mulk
- Daughter, married Miangul Abdul Khaliq of Swat.
- Mehtar MUHAMMAD
AFZAL al-MULK, Mehtar of Chitral [30.8.1892]
- [1.12.1892], born 1875, died 1st December 1892.
- Mehtar SHIR AFZAL
KHAN, Mehtar of Chitral [1.12.1892] -
[12.12.1893] (deposed), born 1873, died 1923.
- Mehtar MUHAMMAD
NIZAM al-MULK, Mehtar of Chitral [12.12.1893]
- [1.1.1895], born 1874, assasinated 1st January 1895
at Broz near Chitral City.
- Mehtar MUHAMMAD
AMIR al-MULK, Mehtar of Chitral [1.1.1895] -
[1.5.1895] (deposed), born 1876, died 1924.
- HH Mehtar Sir
MUHAMMAD SHUJA al-MULK K.C.I.E., Mehtar of
Chitral [1.5.1895] - [13.10.1936], born 1881, C.I.E.
[cr.1903], K.C.I.E. [cr.1919], married four wives and
had four concubines, by whom he had issue, fifteen
sons and five daughters. He died 13th October 1936.
- Major HH Mehtar Sir Muhammed Nasir al-Mulk (qv)
- Shahzada Hisam al-Mulk, Governor of Drosh.
- Shahzada Mata al-Mulk
- Shahzada Khushwakht al-Mulk, born 1913, married
and has issue.
- Shahzada Siraj ul-Mulk
- Shahzada Sekander ul-Mulk
- HH Mehtar Muhammed Muzaffar al-Mulk I (qv)
- Shahzada Burhan ud-Din, born 1915, died July 1995
or 1996.
- Major HH Mehtar Sir
MUHAMMED NASIR al-MULK K.C.I.E., Mehtar of
Chitral [13.10.1936] - [29.6.1943], born 29th
September 1897, K.C.I.E., married 1stly (....),
married 2ndly, 1939 daughter of Nawab Shah Jahan Khan
of Dhir and had issue,
two daughters. He died 29th June (or July) 1943 in
Chitral.
- Daughter (by 1st wife), married June 1949, HH
Mehtar Saif ar-Rahman of Chitral (qv)
- HH Mehtar MUHAMMED
MUZAFFAR al-MULK, Mehtar of Chitral
[29.6.1943] - [7.1.1949], married the daughter of
Sayyid Lais Shahzada and had issue. He died 7th
January 1949.
- HH Mehtar Saif ar-Rahman (qv)
- Shahzada Asad ar-Rahman, born 1928, Regent of
Chitral [14.10.1954] - [xx.5.1966], died 2005.
- HH Mehtar SAIF
ar-RAHMAN, Mehtar of Chitral [7.1.1949] -
[14.10.1954], born 1926, married June 1949, the
daughter of Major HH Mehtar Sir Muhammed Nasir al-Mulk
of Chitral (see above), and has issue. He died 14th
October 1954
- HH Mehtar Muhammed Nasir Saif ul-Mulk (qv)
- HH Mehtar MUHAMMED
NASIR SAIF ul-MULK,Mehtar of Chitral
[14.10.1954] - [2011], born 1950, married HH Khonza
Begum Ismat, grand-daughter of Nawab Mir Muhammed
Farid Khan of Amb, and
has issue, two sons and two daughters. He died 2011.
- HH Mehtar Fateh ul-Mulk Ali Nasir (qv)
- Shahzada Hammad ul-mulk Nasir
- HH Mehtar FATEH
ul-MULK ALI NASIR, Mehtar of Chitral (see
above)
The help of John Duncan McMeekin, is gratefully
acknowledged, January 2011.
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