PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Predecessor state was founded in 1454 when Sheikh
Sadruddin Sadr-i-Jahan married a daughter of Sultan Bahlul
Lodi of Delhi (1451/1489), and was given 68 villages near
Ludhiana in jagir. Bayezid Khan (died 1657) was the first
Nawab and founder of the Princely State. The state ranked
12th in the Punjab Darbar (1890). Rulers were...
- Sheikh SADRUDDIN
Sadr-i-Jahan, Chief of Malerkotla 1454/1508
- Sheikh EISA,
Chief of Malerkotla 1508/1538
- Khan MUHAMMED SHAH,
Chief of Malerkotla 1538/1545
- Khwaja MADUD KHAN,
Chief of Malerkotla 1545/1566
- Khan FATEH MUHAMMED
KHAN, Chief of Malerkotla 1566/1600
- Nawab BAYEZID KHAN,
Nawab of Malerkotla 1600/1657, died 1657.
- Nawab FEROZ KHAN,
Nawab of Malerkotla 1657/1672
- Nawab SHER MUHAMMED
KHAN, Nawab of Malerkotla 1672/1712, married
and had issue, seven sons.
- Nawab GHULAM HUSAIN
KHAN, Nawab of Malerkotla 1712/1717
- Nawab JAMAL KHAN,
Nawab of Malerkotla 1717/1755, married and had issue,
five sons.
- Nawab Bhikan Khan (qv)
- Nawab Bahadur Khan (qv)
- Nawab Umar Khan (qv)
- Nawab Asadullah Khan (qv)
- Nawab Ataullah Khan (qv)
- Nawab BHIKAN KHAN,
Nawab of Malerkotla 1755/1763, married and had issue.
- Nawab Wazir Ali Khan (qv)
- Nawabzada Fateh Khan, married and had issue.
- Sahibzada Faizullah Khan
- Sahibzada Faiz Talab Khan, married and had
issue.
- Nawab BAHADUR KHAN,
Nawab of Malerkotla 1763/1766, married and had issue.
- Nawabzada Himat Khan, married and had issue.
- Sahibzada Rustam Ali Khan
- Sahibzada Faiz Ali KHan
- Nawabzada Dalel Khan, married and had issue.
- Sahibzada Ghulam Muhammed Khan, he contested for
the Maler Kotla gaddi in 1871, but was
overlooked; married and had issue. He died 1877.
- Sahibzada Ahsan Ali Khan, he served as a
Viceregal Darbari of the Dehli Division; married
and had issue.
- Sahibzada Muhammed Mohsan Ali Khan, died
1888.
- Khan Muhammed Ihsan Ali Khan, born 1890,
educated at Aitchison Chiefs' College, Lahore;
married and had issue.
- Khan Hassan Ali Khan, married a daughter
of the Nawab of Kunjpura in Karnal Distt.
- Sahibzada Bakar Ali Khan
- Sahibzada Muhammed Ali Khan
- The Hon. Nawab Sir Zulfiqar Ali Khan, born
August 1873, Kt., C.S.I. [cr.1911], educated at
Aitchison Chiefs' College, Lahore; appointed
Extra-Assistant Commissioner at Ludhiana, but
resigned in 1895; Member, Punjab Chiefs'
Association; Member of the Legislative Council
of His Excellency the Viceroy 1910/-; Chief
Minister, Patiala State; married and had issue.
He died 26th May 1933.
- Honourable Nawabzada Khurshid Ali Khan, born
1909 at Lahore, M.B.E., educated at Aitchison
Chiefs' College, Lahore and at Cambridge
Preparatory School, Dehra Dun then privately
in England.
- Begum Saheba Kudsia, born 2nd April 1909;
M.L.A. (Uttar Pradesh) 1937/1952 and
1969/1990; Member, Constituent Assembly
1946/1950; Member of Parliament 1950/1952;
Member of the Rajya Sabha 1952/1956 and
1962/1968; Minister, Social Welfare and
Minorities 1969/1971. She had been the
president/office bearer of almost all women's
voluntary organizations like All India Women's
Conference, Council of Child Welfare, Council
of Moral and Social Hygiene and Council of
University Women etc. In the field of
education she contributed her full might to
spread it particularly among girls. She was
the president of Karamat Husain Muslim Girls
Degree College Lucknow, I.R. College, Sandila
and Aizaz Rasool Degree College, Sandila.
President of the All India Women’s Hockey
Association for twenty years. She was also the
chairperson of UP Minorities Commission
1979/1989, married Nawab Syed Aizaz Rasul of
Sandila, and had issue, two sons and two
daughters. She died 1st August 2001 and was
laid to rest with full state honours at her
ancestral graveyard in Sandila, near Lucknow.(#2)
- Sahibzada Yusuf Ali Khan
- Sahibzada (name
unknown), married HH Nawab Muhammed
Ibrahim Ali Khan, Nawab of Malerkotla (see
below).
- Nawab UMAR KHAN,
Nawab of Malerkotla 1766/1780, married and had issue.
- Nawabzada Hasain Khan, married and had issue.
- Sahibzada Sultan Khan
- Sahibzada Torabaz Khan
- Nawab ASADULLAH
KHAN, Nawab of Malerkotla 1780/1784, married
and had issue. He died 1782/1784.
- Nawabzada Muhammed Ali Khan
- Nawab ATAULLAH KHAN,
Nawab of Malerkotla 1784/1810, married and had issue.
He died 1809/1810.
- Nawabzada Rahmat Ali Khan, married and had issue.
He died 1852.
- Sahibzada Muhammed Dilawar Ali Khan, married and
had issue. He died 1861.
- HH Nawab Mihammed Ibrahim Ali Khan (qv)
- Sahibzada Inayat Ali Khan, Aide-de-Camp during
the Afghan War in the staff of General John
Watson; married and had issue.
- Sahibzada Muhammed Abdullah Khan, died 1889.
- Sahibzada Sadat Ali Khan
- Nawabzada Fazal Ali Khan
- Nawabzada Amam Ali Khan
- Nawab WAZIR ALI
KHAN, Nawab of Malerkotla 1810/1821, married
and had issue.
- Nawab AMIR ALI KHAN,
Nawab of Malerkotla 1821/1845, married and had issue.
- Nawab Mahbub Ali Khan (qv)
- Nawab MAHBUB ALI
KHAN, Nawab of Malerkotla 1845/1859, married
Nawab Maher Begum, and had issue.
- Nawab Sikander Ali Khan (qv)
- Nawab SIKANDER ALI
KHAN, Nawab of Malerkotla 1859/1871, he was
granted a sanad of adoption in 1861; married
and had issue, as well as adoptive issue. He died
1871.
- Nawabzada Ghaus Muhammed Khan, died vpsp.
- Nawabzada Roshan Ali Khan, died vpsp.
- (A) HH Nawab Muhammed Ibrahim Ali Khan
(qv)
- HH Nawab MUHAMMED
IBRAHIM ALI KHAN, Nawab of Malerkotla
1871/1908, born 1857 (1858), succeeded 16th July 1871
(#1), married a daughter
of Sahibzada Ghulam Muhammed Khan, and had issue. He
died 1908.
- Nawabzada Ishaq Ali Khan, died 1884.
- Lt.Col. HH Nawab Sir Muhammed Ahmad Ali Khan
Bahadur (qv)
- Nawabzada Muhammed Ali Khan
- Lt.Col. HH Nawab
Sir MUHAMMED AHMAD ALI KHAN Bahadur K.C.S.I.,
K.C.I.E., Nawab of Malerkotla 1908/1947, K.C.S.I.
[cr.1915], K.C.I.E. [cr.1921], born 10th
September 1881 and succeeded 23rd August 1908 (#3), Lieutenant Colonel
(Indian Army). Died 16th October 1947.
- HH Nawab IFTIKHAR
ALI KHAN Bahadur, Nawab of Malerkotla
1947/1982 , MLA, married 4thly (div. 1980), HH Nawab
Sajida Begum, MLA, (married 2ndly, Haji Anwer Ahmed
Khan). He died sp
in 1982.
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