DUJANA (Princely State)

 
Area: 259 km2 Privy Purse: 34,000Rs  Accession: 3rd March 1948
STATE: Haryana  Dynasty: Yusufzai Pathan Religion: Muslim
Population: 23,416 (1892) rEvENue: 80,000Rs
 
     
Present Ruler: VACANT in 1970 (Dujana, Rohtak, Punjab, India)
Predecessors and Short History: The state was founded in 1806 by a Abdus Samad Khan , a scion of a branch of the Yusufzai Pathans of Jhajjar. The state ranked 19th in the Panjab Darbar (1890). The Nawab maintains  a military force of 25 cavalry and 140 infantry (1892). Rulers were....
  1. Nawab ABDUS SAMAD KHAN, 1st Nawab of Dujana 1806/1825, born 1764, still as a youth, he took service as Rasaldar under Bhaji Rao, the Peshwa,  rising eventually to high command of the Maratha troops, which assisted Lord Lake in his campaign against Sindia, and he ultimately joined Lord Lake's force as a Shashsadi (Commander of Six Hundred Men), and from him he obtained the grant of large estates as a reward for services rendered, the tenure was made hereditary, and other territories added, by a sanad dated 4th May 1806; married and had issue. He died 1825.
    • Nawabzada Ghulam Muhammed Khan, married and had issue. He died vp.
      • Sahibzada Muhammed Amir Khan, married and had issue.
        • Sahibzada Ibrahim Khan, married and had issue.
          • Sahibzada Muhammed Imtiaz Ali
        • Sahibzada Ismail Khan
        • Sahibzada Abdullah Khan
    • Nawab Muhammed Donde Khera Khan (qv)

  2. Nawab MUHAMMED DONDE KHERA KHAN, 2nd Nawab of Dujana 1825/1850, married and had issue. He died 1850.
    • Nawab Hasan Ali Khan (qv)
    • Nawabzada Sher Khan, born 1826.
    • Nawabzada Shamsher Khan, born 1829, married and had issue.
      • Sahibzada Ahmad Ali Khan
      • Sahibzada Arshad Ali Khan
      • Sahibzada Ajaz Ali Khan
      • Sahibzada Ashrat Ali Khan

  3. Nawab HASAN ALI KHAN, 3rd Nawab of Dujana 1850/1867, married and had issue. He died 1867.
    • Nawab Muhammed Saadat Ali Khan (qv)
    • Nawabzada Muhammed Najabat Ali Khan, born 1849, married and had issue.
      • Sahibzada Khurshi Ali Khan
      • Sahibzada Jamshid Ali Khan

  4. Nawab MUHAMMED SAADAT ALI KHAN, 4th Nawab of Dujana 1867/1879, born 1840, married and had issue. He died 15th October 1879 (#1).
    • Jalaluddin Nawab Muhammed Mumtaz Ali Khan Bahadur Mustaqil-i-Jan (qv)

  5. Jalaluddin Nawab MUHAMMED MUMTAZ ALI KHAN Bahadur Mustaqil-i-Jan, 5th Nawab of Dujana 1879/1908, born 1864 (#1).

  6. Jalaluddin Nawab MUHAMMED KHURSHID ALI KHAN Bahadur Mustaqil-i-Jan, 8th Nawab of Dujana 1908/1925, born 3rd November 1883, succeeded 21st June 1908; married and had issue.
    • Jalaluddaula Nawab Muhammed Iqtidar Ali Khan Bahadur Mustaqil-i-Jan (qv)

  7. Jalaluddaula Nawab MUHAMMED IQTIDAR ALI KHAN Bahadur Mustaqil-i-Jan, 7th Nawab of Dujana 1925/19xx, born 20th November 1912 and succeeded 21st July 1925 (#2). He died before 1970.
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 , p.127
2. "Indian Annual Register" , N. N. Nitra, Calcutta 1945