PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The
state
was founded in 1730. The State follows the rule of
Primogeniture for succession, and it also had a Sanad of
adoption. His Highness the Nawab maintains a military
force of 251 cavalry, 1972 infantry and 66 guns, and is
entitled to a salute of 11 guns (as of 1892). Rulers
were...
- Bahadurkhanji Babi 1630/1654, married and had issue.
- Sherkhanji Babi 1654/1690, married and had issue.
- Nawab Ja'afarkhanji Babi [Sardarkhanji] (qv)
- Khan Shri Mubarazkhanji Babi [Kadi, 1674]
- Khan Shri Muzaffarkhanji Babi [Kadi District]
- Khan Shri Shahbazkhanji Babi
- Nawab Ja'afarkhanji Babi [Sardarkhanji] 1690/1725,
married and had issue.
- Nawab Saheb Salabat Muhammadkhan Babi (qv)
- Khan Shri Jahan Babi [Jawan Mard Khan], was given
and established the house of Radhanpur, in 1725.
- Nawab Sherkhanji Babi, married and had issue.
- Khan Shri Samatkhan Babi, married and had issue.
- Khan Shri Ja'afarkhan Babi, married and had
issue.
- Khan Shri Muzaffarkhan Babi
- Khan Shri Fatehyabkhan Babi, both were
Ranpur Bhayat.
- Nawab Saheb Salabat Muhammadkhan Babi 1725/1730, was
given and established the house of Viramgam and Gogha,
Deputy Governor of Junagadh; willed his territory to
his sons, with the eldest recieving Junagadh and the
younger sons sharing in the Bantva district; married
and had issue. He died of cholera in 1730 at
Ahmedabad.
- Nawab Saheb Bahadurkhanji Babi [Sherkhan] (qv)
- Khan Saheb Shri Diler Khan Salabat Muhammed Khan,
1st Ruler of Manavadar.
- Khan Saheb Shri Sher Zaman Khan Salabat Muhammed
Khan, 1st Taluqdar of Bantva.
- Nawab Saheb Bahadurkhanji Babi [Sherkhan] [1728,
Deputy, Junagadh; 1748, Nawab, Junagadh.], 1st Nawab
of Junagadh (see below).
- Nawab Saheb
MUHAMMED SHER KHAN BABI, 1st Nawab of
Junagadh 1735/1758, he was placed in charge of
Viramgam by his father in 1728, succeeded in Junagadh
in 1730 and declared himself independent in 1735;
married and had issue. He died 1758.
- Nawab Saheb Muhammed Mahabat Khanji I (qv)
- Nawab Saheb Sardar Muhammed Khanji, founder of Balasinor.
- Nawab Saheb
MUHAMMED MAHABAT KHANJI I, 2nd Nawab of
Junagadh 1758/1774, married and had issue. He died
1774.
- Nawab Saheb Muhammed Hamid Khanji I (qv)
- Nawab Saheb
MUHAMMED HAMID KHANJI I, 3rd Nawab of
Junagadh 1774/1811, married and had issue. He died
1811.
- Nawab Saheb Muhammed Bahadur Khanji I (qv)
- Nawab Saheb
MUHAMMED BAHADUR KHANJI I, 4th Nawab of
Junagadh 1811/1840, married and had issue.
- Nawab Saheb Muhammed Hamid Khanji II (qv)
- Nawab Saheb Muhammed Mahabat Khanji II (qv)
- Nawab Saheb
MUHAMMED HAMID KHANJI II, 5th Nawab of
Junagadh 1840/1851, born 1828, died 1851.
- Nawab Saheb
MUHAMMED MAHABAT KHANJI II K.C.S.I., 6th
Nawab of Junagadh 1851/1882, he was created Knight
Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of
India in 1871, married and had issue. He died 29th
September 1882.
- HH Nawab Saheb Muhammed Bahadur Khanji II (qv)
- HH Nawab Saheb Sir Muhammed Rasul Khanji (qv)
- Nawabzada Adilkhanji Mahabatkhanji Babi,educated
at Rajkumar College, Rajkot; Commandant of the
Imperial Service Troops of Junagadh.
- HH Nawab Saheb
MUHAMMED BAHADUR KHANJI II G.C.I.E., 7th
Nawab of Junagadh 1882/1892, born 1856, he succeeded
to the gadi
on 29th September 1882 (#1), educated at
Rajkumar College, Rajkot, he was invested with the
insignia of a Knight Grand Commander of the Most
Eminent Order of the Indian Empire on 20th November
1890; died 23rd January 1892 (#2).
- HH Nawab Saheb Sir
MUHAMMED RASUL KHANJI G.C.S.I., 8th Nawab of
Junagadh 1892/1911, born 1858, married and had issue.
He died 24th January 1911 (#4).
or 2nd January 1911 (#2)
or 22nd January 1911 (#3).
- Nawabzada Sher Zamankhanji Babi, Heir Apparent,
married and had issue, one daughter. He died 15th
August 1908.
- Bimashri Lalbakhte Sahiba, married Namdar Darbar
Saheb Shri Aadil Khanji Babi Bahadur of Sukhpur in
Junagadh State, married and had issue, two
daughters.
- Bimashri Mumtazohra Vakhte Sahiba, married
Namdar Darbar Saheb Shri Hayat Khanji Babi
Bahadur of Devgam, a Bhayat of Ranpur and under
Junagadh State, and has issue.
- Sahibzada Anis Mohammed Khanji Hayat Khanji
Babi, married Sahibzadi Bima Shri Nasrin
Sultana Bakhte Babi, and has issue.
- Sahibzada Muzammilhayat Khanji Babi, born
5th November 1984 in Junagadh, educated at
Rajkumar College, Rajkot (2002) and
graduated from Wilson College, Mumbai,
married 28th October 2006, Begum Hannana
Sultana Khan Babi, and has issue, two sons.
- Sahibzada Moazzam Khanji Babi
- Sahibzada Mohammed Muhaafiz Khanji Babi
- Bimashri Rahim Bakhte Sahiba, married
Sahibzada Ahmed Siddique Hussain Khanji Babi of
Kheda.
- Nawabzada Bahadurkhanji, died 18th April 1906.
- Capt. HH Nawab Saheb Sir Muhammed Mahabat Khanji
III Rasul Khanji (qv)
- Capt. HH Nawab
Saheb Sir MUHAMMED MAHABAT KHANJI III RASUL KHANJI
G.C.S.I., K.C.S.I., 9th Nawab of Junagadh 1911/1959,
born 2nd August 1900 (#3),
G.C.S.I., K.C.S.I. [cr.1926], educated in England and
at Mayo College, Ajmer, entitled to a personal 15 gun
salute, married HH Nawab Munawar Jahan Begum of Bhopal
and had issue. He died 7th November 1959 at Karachi.
- HH Nawab Saheb Muhammed Dilawar Khanji Mahabat
Khanji (qv)
- Nawabzada Muhammad Himatkhanji Mahabatkhanji Babi,
born 16th February 1924.
- Nawabzada Muhammad Shamsherkhanji Mahabatkhanji
Babi
- Nawabzada Muhammad Iqbalkhanji Mahabatkhanji Babi
- Nawabzadi Bima Shri Inayat Bakhte Sahiba (third
daughter), married 11th November 1945, Khan Shri
Ghulam Moinuddinkhanji Husainyawarkhanji, 5th Khan
Sahib of Sardargadh-Bantva,
and had issue. She died 1959.
- HH Nawab Saheb
MUHAMMED DILAWAR KHANJI MAHABAT KHANJI, 10th
Nawab of Junagadh 1959/1989, born 23rd June 1922 (#2), married
1stly, 30th November 1945, married 2ndly, HH Nawab
Shah Begum Sahiba, and had issue. He died 1989.
- HH Nawab Saheb Muhammed Jahangir Khanji Dilawar
Khanji (qv)
- Nawabzada Muhammad Alamgir Khanji M.B.A. (by Shah
Begum Sahiba), born June 1957 in Karachi, presently
(2011) working as a senior banker in Karachi;
married 1989 in Karachi, Fiziyeh Bokhary, daughter
of Admiral (Ret'd.) Syed Fasih Bokhary, Pakistan
Navy, and has issue, two daughters.
- Nawabzada Muhammad Zaheer Khanji B.A. (by Shah
Begum Sahiba), born 3rd January 1962, educated at
Punjab University, Lahore (B.A.); married 11th
September 1999 in Karachi, and has issue, two
daughters.
- HH Nawab Saheb
MUHAMMED JAHANGIR KHANJI DILAWAR KHANJI, 11th
Nawab of Junagadh (see above)
Courtesy of Y.S. Jaideepsinh Jadeja � 2002 |