PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Pataudi was ruled by Barench clan which had control of
territory between Kandahar and Pishin, about 1000 years ago. Salamat
Khan came to India in 1480 and was responsible for subduing Mewati
uprising and ruled over Bala Hisar. General Lake, in 1806, granted
Fa'iz Talab Khan, the Pataudi Ilaka in perpetual jagir, with full
judicial and revenue powers.
The rulers were...
- Nawab FA'IZ TALAB KHAN, 1st Nawab of Pataudi
1804/1829, married the sister of
Najabat Ali
Khan, Nawab of
Jhajjar, and had issue. He died 1827 or 1829.
- Nawab Muhammed Akbar Ali Khan (qv)
- Nawab MUHAMMED AKBAR ALI KHAN, 2nd Nawab of Pataudi
1829/1862, married and had
issue. He died 3rd March 1862.
- Nawab Muhammed Taqi Ali Khan (qv)
- Nawabzada Inayat Ali Khan, married and had
issue.
- Sahibzada Muhammed Hasan Khan
- Sahibzada Ahmad Hasan Khan
- Nawabzada Sadiq Khan, married and had
issue.
- Sahibzada Habib-ul-Rahman Khan
- Nawabzada Jafar Ali Khan, married and had
issue.
- Sahibzada Muazam Ali Khan
- Sahibzada Wasiat Ali Khan
- Nawabzada Mirza Asghar Ali Khan
- Nawab MUHAMMED TAQI ALI KHAN [Muhammed Naqi Ali
Khan], 3rd Nawab of Pataudi
1862/1867, married and had
issue. He died 1862 or 1867?
- Nawab Muhammed Mukhtar Husain Ali Khan (qv)
- Nawab MUHAMMED MUKHTAR HUSAIN ALI KHAN, 4th Nawab of
Pataudi 1867/1878,
born 1856, married a granddaughter of Nawab Najabat Ali Khan of
Jhajjar,
and had issue. He died
1878.
- Nawab Muhammed Mumtaz Husain Ali Khan Bahadur (qv)
- Nawab Muhammed Muzaffar Ali Khan (qv)
- Nawab MUHAMMED MUMTAZ HUSAIN ALI KHAN Bahadur, 5th
Nawab of Pataudi 1878/1898,
born 1874,
educated at Aitchison College, Lahore; succeeded
30th March 1878 (#1).
- Nawab MUHAMMED MUZAFFAR ALI KHAN, 6th Nawab of
Pataudi 1898/1913, married and had
issue.
- Nawab Muhammed Ibrahim Ali Khan (qv)
- Nawab MUHAMMED IBRAHIM ALI KHAN, 7th Nawab of Pataudi
1913/1917, married
Sahibzadi Shaher Bano, daughter of HH
Al-Haj Nawab Mirza Sir Amiruddin Ahmed Khan Bahadur of Loharu, and his wife, Akhtaree Begum, and
had
issue. He
died
30th November 1917.
- Nawab Muhammed
Iftikhar Ali Khan (see below)
- Maj.-Gen. H.E. Nawabzada Muhammed Sher Ali Khan HJ, born
13th
May 1913 in
Pataudi (#2),
educated at Aitchison Chief's College, Lahore; the Prince of Wale's
Royal
Indian Military College, Dehra Dun and Royal Military College,
Sandhurst.
He was commissioned into the 7th Light Cavalry in 1933, he subsequently
commanded the First battalion of the First Punjab Regiment during the
Second
World War, following this he served as the Defence Attache of the
Indian
Armed Forces in Washington DC. He commanded the Parachute Brigade
during
the 1948-49 Kashmir War in which action he was awarded the Hilal-i-Jurat.
He
was
appointed
Adjutant General of the Pakistan Army and later served
as the Chief of the General Staff. In 1958 he was appointed Pakistan's
High Commissioner to Malaysia and in 1963 as Pakistan's Ambassador to
Yugoslavia
with concurrent accreditation to Bulgaria. He served as Federal
Minister
for Information 1967/1969 and National Affairs 1969/1971. He was a
member
of Pakistan's Polo team for many years, Captain of the all Malaysia
Polo
team for six years and President of the Malayan Polo Association
1959/1963.
He also established the Djakarta Riding/Saddle club and was its first
elected
President. He taught briefly at Aitchison Chiefs' college and was also
Vice Chairman of its Board of Governors. He was the Co-founder and
Chairman
of the governing body of Vigar-un-Nisa Women's College at Rawalpindi.
He
was the Author of several books and the recipient of the highest civil
awards from governments in Malaysia, Yugoslavia and Indonesia, and was
a Dato of the State of Pahang in Malaysia; he married 1stly,
Nawabzadi Jahanara Begum, born 1915, daughter of Nawab
Abdus
Samad Khan of
Najibabad,
and his wife, Sahibzadi Aliya Sultan Begum, married 2ndly, Begum
Silvat
Sher Ali Khan Pataudi, daughter of Mian Ghulam Mueenuddin of Loharu,
and had issue, four sons and a
daughter.
He 29th May 2002 at Lahore, Pakistan. (Sher Manzil, 6,
Lawrence
Road,
Lahore, Pakistan)
- Major General Sahibzada Isfandiyar Ali Pataudi,
Commander of the
26th Mechanized Division of the Pakistan Army.
- Nawabzadi (name unknown) Begum Saheba, married
Nawabzada Capt. Maqbul Hussain Khan
Qureshi, born
1903,
died 31st May 1935 in the Quetta earthquake, and had issue.
- Nawab MUHAMMED IFTIKHAR ALI KHAN. 8th Nawab of
Pataudi 1917/1952, born 17th March
1910 at Pataudi House in Delhi, succeeded
30th November 1917, Investiture was 10th December 1931, educated at
Aitchison
Chiefs' College, Lahore and Balliol College, Oxford winning "blues" for
both cricket and hockey, a right hand batsman and Test cricketer with
the unique distinction of playing in Tests for both England (debut in
1932) and India (debut in 1946), he eventually retired due to ill
health with a Test high score of 102 and First Class high score of 238
not out; he was also a fine hockey and billiards player and an
accomplished
speaker; after independence, he was employed in the Indian
Foreign Office till 1952; married in 1938, HH Nawab Begum Sajjida
Sultaan, second daughter of Col. HH Nawab Hamidullah Khan
of Bhopal, and his first wife, HH
Maimuna Sultan Shah Banu Begum Sahiba, and had issue. He died 5th
January
1952 in New Delhi.
- Nawab Muhammed Mansur Ali Khan (qv)
- Nawabzadi Saleha Sultaan Begum Saheba, born 15th January
1940, married
Nawab Bashir Yar Jung of the Paigah family, and has issue.
- Nawabzada Saad Bin Jung, born 26th October 1960
in Delhi.
- Nawabzadi Qudsia Sultaan Begum Saheba
- Nawabzadi Sabiha Sultaan Begum Saheba.
 Nawab
MUHAMMED
MANSUR ALI KHAN, 9th Nawab of Pataudi 1952/2011, born 5th January
1941 in Bhopal, succeeded his father on 5th January 1952, educated at
Welham Boys'
School in Dehradun, Lockers Park Prep School in Hertfordshire,
Winchester College, and Balliol College, Oxford; former captain of the
Indian cricket team 1962/1970, he played in 46 Test matches for India
between 1961 and 1975 as a right-hand batsman with a high score of
203 not out and a Test batting average at 34.91; his father also was
Captain of the Indian Cricket Team, a rare distinction in Test cricket;
recipient of
the Arjuna Award in 1964 and the Padma Shri in 1967; married
27th
December 1968 at Calcutta, Sharmila Tagore, born 8th December 1944 in
Hyderabad,
she
took the name of Ayesha Sultaan on her conversion; an actress who made
her debut in the 1959 film Apur
Sansar, she heads the Indian Film Censor Board from April 2005,
she was chosen as an UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in December 2005, she
has won the following awards, Filmfare Best Actress Award in 1969 (Aradhana), National Film Award for
Best Actress in 1976 (Mausam),
Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997, Star Screen Lifetime
Achievement Award in 2003; and had issue, one son and two daughters. He
died of respiratory failure on 22nd September 2011 at the Sir Ganga Ram
Hospital in New Delhi, and was buried in Pataudi.
- Nawabzada
Saif Ali Khan, he succeeded as Nawab Saif Ali Khan (qv)
- Nawabzadi
Saba Ali Khan (Photo), born 1976,
Jewellry designer, educated at the British
School
in Delhi and studied advertising from the Delhi college of Arts, worked
in the advertising agency, Lintas, for a couple of months, studied at
the
Gemological Institute of America from 1997.
- Nawabzadi Soha Ali Khan (Photo),
born
4th October 1978 in New Delhi; educated at The British School in
New Delhi, then studied
History at Balliol College, Oxford University and has a Masters in
International Relations from the London School of Economics and
Political Sciences; she worked for the Ford
Foundation and Citibank and served on the Advisory Board for a
new project of the public entrepreneur group, Res Publica. She has also
recently modeled for the spring-summer collection of Globus, an Indian
chain of boutique. She made her acting debut with the Bollywood
production Dil Maange More
(2004).
- Nawab SAIF ALI KHAN, 10th Nawab of Pataudi (see
above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Two Princesses of Pataudi, married Nawab Sir Shah Nawaz
Khan of Mamdot
1883-1942.
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Nawab SAIF
ALI KHAN, 10th Nawab of Pataudi since 22nd September 2011.
