PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The
state
was founded in 1730. The Nawab maintains a military force
of 12 cavalry, 190 infantry, and 9 guns (as of 1892).
Rulers were...
- Nawab MUHAMMED
DALAL KHAN, 1st Nawab of Kurwai 1730/175x, he
first entered the service of the Raja of Datia, and
later in around 1726 the service of the Raja of
Basoda; he seized the state on the death of the Chief
of Kurwai; married and had issue, two sons.
- Nawab Muhammed 'Izzat Khan, he succeeded in Kurwai
(qv)
- Nawab Ahsanullah Khan, married and had issue, the
Nawabs of Basoda and Muhammadgarh.
- Nawab MUHAMMED
'IZZAT KHAN, 2nd Nawab of Kurwai 175x/-
- Nawab HORMAT KHAN,
3rd Nawab of Kurwai -/1820, married and had issue, as
well as further issue.
- Nawabzada Iradat Muhammed Khan, he appealed to the
British to restore him to the throne, but they
refused and offered an annuity of 6,000Rs, if he
gave up his claim to the throne.
- Nawab Muhammed Akbar Khan (by a secondary
union)(qv)
- Nawab MUHAMMED
AKBAR KHAN, 4th Nawab of Kurwai 1820/1843, he
seized the throne in preference to the legitimate son,
married and had issue, two sons. He died 1843.
- Nawab Muhammed Muzaffar Khan (qv)
- Nawab Muhammed Nazaf Khan (qv)
- Nawab MUHAMMED
MUZAFFAR KHAN, 5th Nawab of Kurwai 1843/1858,
married and had issue. He died spm 1858.
- Nawabzadi (name
unknown) Begum, married the Nawab of Basoda. and had issue,
one son.
- Nawab MUHAMMED
NAZAF KHAN, 6th Nawab of Kurwai 1858/1887,
born 1824, having rendered good service to Government,
and being without male issue, he was permitted to
adopt his maternal grandson, married and had issue. He
died spm on
15th January 1887.
- Nawabzadi (name
unknown) Begum, married Nawabzada Mazhar
Ali Khan, Regent of Kurwai 1887/-, and had issue.
- Nawab Munawar Ali Khan (qv)
- Nawab MUNAWAR ALI
KHAN, 7th Nawab of Kurwai 1887/1896, born
1869, he succeeded his grandfather and adoptive father
to the gadi
on 15th January 1887 (#1).
- Nawab MUHAMMED
YAQUB ALI KHAN, 8th Nawab of Kurwai
1896/1906, married and had issue.
- Nawab Muhammed Sarwar Ali Khan (qv)
- Nawabzadi Ahmad Zaman
- Nawabzadi Mohammed Zaman
- Nawabzadi Yusuf Zaman
- Nawab MUHAMMED
SARWAR ALI KHAN, 9th Nawab of Kurwai
1906/1986 (under a regency 1906/1919), born 1st
December 1901 and succeeded in 1906 (#2), married 1stly, 1933
(sep'd. 1934) Nawab Gauhar-e-Taj Abida Sultaan Begum
Sahiba, born 28th August 1913, died 11th May 2002,
eldest daughter of Col. HH Nawab Hamidullah Khan of Bhopal, and his first
wife, HH Maimuna Sultan Shah Banu Begum Sahiba,
married 2ndly, Nawabzadi Ayesha Begum of Wai, and had
issue. He died 1986.
-
 Nawabzada Shaharyar
Muhammed Khan, born 1934, educated at Cambridge
University and Fletcher University where he was a
student in the department of Law and Diplomacy. In
1957, he began his career as a Minister of Foreign
Affairs in Pakistan and has had a diplomatic career
ever since, being posted in: London (1960/1962 and
1971/1975); Tunisia (1963/19 66); Geneva
(1970/1971), he was named Pakistani Ambassador in
Jordan (1977/1982); and High Commissioner of
Pakistan to the United Kingdom (1987/1990), he has
performed many functions: Director (1969/1970);
Director General (1975/1977); and Assistant to the
Secretary General (1982/1987) before occupying the
post of Secretary General between 1990 and 1994. He
also presided over the Foreign Affairs Minister's
Reform Commission which was put into place in July
of 1997. After his retirement, Shaharyar Khan was
named Special Representative to the Secretary
General of the UN for Rwanda (1994/1996), and then
President of the Pakistani Refugee Committee
(1997/1998). He has managed the Pakistani national
cricket team since the tournament that took place in
India at the beginning of 1999. He is also the
author of "Begums of Bhopal", a look at the female
rulers of this muslim state.
- Nawabzadi Kaiser Zaman, married and has issue.
- Sahibzadi Mariyam
- Sahibzadi Ziya
- Nawab Zafar Ali Khan (qv)
- Nawabzada Munawwar Ali Khan
- Nawab ZAFAR ALI
KHAN, 10th Nawab of Kurwai (see above)
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