PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
The family is descended from Qazi Nasrullah, who was the
Chief Qazi of the Caliph of Baghdad, and who came to India
as an ambassador in the court of Shaheb-ud-din. His
descendant became commander for Mohammad Bin Tughlaq in
1345, and was rewarded with a large Jagir in Awadh. Later
his great grandson was granted the hereditary titles of
Nawab and Khan Bahadur by Padshah Akbar as a reward for
winning a battle against Hemu. Rulers were...
- Nawab Bahadur BAZID
KHAN Muzaffar Jang, founder of Mahmudabad.
- Nawab INAYAT KHAN,
he served as Commander in the army of Padshah
Jahangir, and was granted the titles of Umadatul
Malli, Amirul-Mulk, Ghanzanfer-ud-daullah, Muzaffar
Jung.
- Nawab MUHAMMAD
QAYUM KHAN,
- Nawab MUHAMMAD
MARAHMAT KHAN, Naib Nazim of Awadh.
- Nawab MUHAMMAD INAM
KHAN, married married a Shi'i Shaykhzadah
woman, and had issue. He died in the 1760's.
- Nawab Muhammad Ikram Ali Khan (qv)
- Nawab Muhammad Mazhar Ali Khan, converted to
Shi'ism, inheriting the smaller portion of the
estate in Belehra, Bara Banki Dist., married and had
issue, the Rajas of Bilehra and Paintipur. He died
in the 1790's.
- Nawab MUHAMMAD AMIR
ALI KHAN,
- Nawab MUHAMMAD
IKRAM ALI KHAN, remained Sunni, married and
had issue. He died about 1775.
- Raja Sarfraz Ali Khan (qv)
- Raja Musahib Ali Khan (qv)
- Raja SARFRAZ ALI
KHAN, died sp.
- Raja MUSAHIB ALI
KHAN, built up his holdings to 232 villages
and established good relations with the Awadh court by
supporting it against rebels, although he remained a
Sunni, he initiated mourning rites for the Imam Husayn
in a building inside the fort at Sitapur. He died spm
in 1810 (1819).
- Rani (name
unknown)
(wife) 1810/1838, she adopted a relative from the
Belhra branch in 1836, she died 1838.
- Raja MUHAMMAD NAWAB
ALI KHAN Qaim Jang, Raja of Mahmudabad
1838/1858, adopted from Bellehra, (brother of Raja
Ibad Ali Khan, the Raja of Paintipur), he was granted
the title of Raja as a hereditary distinction in 1850,
as well as the titles of Muqim-ud-Daula and Qaim Jung
by the King of Awadh, fought against the British in
the 1857 war of independence; married and had issue.
He died 1858.
- Amiruddaula Saidul ul-Mulk Mumtaz Jung Raja Sir
Muhammed Amir Hasan Khan, Khan Bahadur Khan Amirul
Omara Saeedul Mulk Muzzafar Jung Ghanzanfaru-daula
(qv)
- Amiruddaula Saidul
ul-Mulk Mumtaz Jung Raja Sir MUHAMMED AMIR HASAN
KHAN, Khan Bahadur Khan Amirul Omara Saeedul Mulk
Muzzafar Jung Ghanzanfaru-daula, Raja of
Mahmudabad 1858/1902, born 1849, took over management
of the Taluq in March 1867, K.C.I.E., President of the
British Indian Association 1882/1890, Vice President
of the British Indian Association 1871/1877 and
1897/1900; married and had issue, two sons and two
daughters. He died 1902 (1908?).
- Hon. Maharaja Khan Bahadur Sir Mohammed Ali
Mohammed Khan, Khan Bahadur Amirul Omara Saeedul
Mulk Muzaffar Jung Ghanzanfar ud-daula (qv)
- Rajkumari Banib Zaadi Mohammad-un-Nisa Begum, died
sp.
- Rajkumari Banib Zaal Begum, died sp.
- Rajkumar Mohammad Ali Ahmed Khan, died sp.
- Hon. Maharaja Khan
Bahadur Sir MOHAMMED ALI MOHAMMED KHAN, Khan Bahadur
Khan Amirul Omara Saeedul Mulk Muzzafar Jung
Ghanzanfaru-daula, Raja of Mahmudabad
1902/1931, born May 1879 in Amrota, Sitapur District,
K.C.S.I. [cr.1922], C.S.I. [cr.1921], K.C.I.E.
[cr.1909]; first Indian home member in U.P. and First
Vice Chancellor of Muslim University, Aligarh; married
1stly, 1906, and had issue, five children. He died
23rd March 1931.
- Maharajkumari Bibi Baqar-un-Nisa
- Maharajkumari Bibi Sadiq-un-Nisa
- Nawab Raja Mohammad Amir Ahmed Khan, Khan Bahadur
Khan Amirul Omara Saeedul Mulk Muzzafar Jung
Ghanzanfaru-daula (qv)
- Maharajkumar Mohammed Amir Haider Khan, married
Maharajkumar Rani Kaniz Ali, and had issue.
- Shri Mohammad Amir Kazim Khan, born 29th
February 1936 in Mahmudabad, educated at London
University, B.A. (Hons.) in History, (1969) and
M.Sc. (Politics and Sociology), 1979; Councillor,
London Borough of Islington 1982/1986; Vice-Chair,
Race Relations sub-Committee; ILEA Teacher
Research Fellow, Institute of Education 1982/1986;
married 22nd September 2000 in London, U.K., Anita
Khan, and has issue.
- Yumna Zahra Nadezhda Khan
- Maharajkumar Mohammed Mahmud Hasan Khan (by second
wife), born 12th December 1921, he was granted the
estate of Basaha; he married Kunwar Rani Razia
Sultan Begum [Razia Shahzadi], daughter of Nawab
Sajid Yar Jung Bahadur, and had issue.
- Rajkumar Mohammed Amir Naqi Khan, Zamindar of
Basaha; Member, Board of Trustees, Shia College,
Lucknow; Life member of Anjuman-e-Wazifa Saddat
Momineen; Member, Kathak Acharya Lachchu Maharaj
Janmotsav Ayojan Samiti; Founder Director Lachchu
Maharaj Ballet Centre, U.P.; Member of U.P Tourism
Policy and Planning Cell; married Kunwar Rani
Kulsum Begum, daughter of Mirza Jawad Ali Baig,
and grand daughter of the Late Nawab Raza Yar Jung
of Hyderabad (and niece of Salar Jung III), and
has issue. (Iqbal Manzil Palace, Wazir
Ganj, Lucknow, U.P., India)
- Kunwar Hussain Abbas Khan
- Kumari Maliha Khan
- Kumari Sakina Khan
- Nawab Raja MOHAMMAD
AMIR AHMED KHAN, Khan Bahadur Khan Amirul Omara
Saeedul Mulk Muzzafar Jung Ghanzanfaru-daula,
Raja of Mahmudabad 1931/1973, born 5th November 1914,
educated at Lucknow and then in England, he formed the
All India Muslim Students Federation in 1937, served
as Honorary Treasurer of the Muslim League for several
years, placing all his wealth at its disposal. He
migrated to Iraq in 1947 after Independence and later
to Pakistan in 1957, but was disillusioned by the
political turmoil there; he travelled initially
throughout the Middle East and later migrated to the
UK, settling down in London where he remained Director
of the Islamic Culture Centre from 1968 till his death
in 1973; he was an accomplished poet in Urdu and
Farsi; he married in 1928, Rani Kaniz Abdi Saheba of
Bellehra (collateral branch of the Mahmudabad Royal
Family), and had issue. He died 14th October 1973 in
London and was buried at Mashhad in Iran. (Mahmudabad
House, Clifton Road, Karachi, Pakistan)
- Rajkumari Amatul Husain Imam
- Rajkumari Rabab Mehdi
- Nawab Raja Mohammed Amir Mohammed Khan, Khan
Bahadur Khan Amirul Omara Saeedul Mulk Muzzafar Jung
Ghanzanfaru-daula (qv)
- Nawab Raja MOHAMMED
AMIR MOHAMMED KHAN, Khan Bahadur Khan Amirul Omara
Saeedul Mulk Muzzafar Jung Ghanzanfaru-daula
(see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Raja KAZIM ALI KHAN, Raja of Bellehra, married and
had issue.
- Rajkumar Habib Ali Khan, born 1894 in Bellehra,
married 1929 in Lucknow, Munir Fatima, and had
issue.
- Kunwar Mohammed Raza Kazim
- Kunwar Abul-Hasan Kazim
- Kunwar Baqir Kazim
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