PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
The state was founded
in 1730. The Nawab maintains a military force of 36 cavalry, 496
infantry and 12 guns (in 1893). The rulers were...
- Mirza JA'AFAR NAJUM
ud-DAULA MO'MIN KHAN I, 1st Nawab of Cambay 1730/1743,
last Muslim
Governor of Gujarat, married Olia Begum, daughter of Mirza Abdul Husain
Dehlami Momin Khan, Diwan of Gujarat 1723/1728 (#2), Agent
for Surat and Cambay, and had issue, as well as illegitimate issue. He
died 1743.
- Nawab Muftakhar Khan Nuruddin Muhammed Khan Mo'min Khan
II (qv)
- Nur Jahan Khanum Begum, married Zimal Abidin Najam Khan,
Governor of Cambay 1743/1748, poisoned to death in 1748 (#2). She died sp.
- Nawab MUFTAKHAR KHAN
NURUDDIN MUHAMMED KHAN MO'MIN KHAN II, 2nd Nawab of Cambay
1743/1783, in spite of his valour, military skill and tact, his rule
was ruinous to Cambay, his heavy and ill-judged levies forced from the
city the wealth and skilled industry which might have outlived the
change in the course of trade and the unchecked disorder of the rest of
the province, married and had illegitimate issue as well as adoptive
issue. He died 1783 (#2).
- Jogni Khanum (by a slave girl), married Nawab Muhammad
Quli Khan (qv)
- (A) Mia Manu aka
Muhammad Quli Khan, illegitimate son of Zimal Abidin Najam Khan,
Governor of Cambay 1743/1748 (see above) (qv)
- Nawab MUHAMMED QULI KHAN,
3rd Nawab of Cambay 1783/1789, illegitimate son of Zimal Abidin Najam
Khan, by the wife of a doorkeeper, his reign was generally uneventful,
a rule of good government, married Jogni Khanum, illegitimate daughter
of Nawab Muftakhar Khan Nuruddin Muhammed Khan Mo'min Khan II (see
above), and had issue, three sons. He died 1789 (#2).
- Najum-ud-Daulah Mumtaz-ul-Mulk Khan Bahadur
Dilawar Jung Nawab Fateh Ali Khan Mo'min Khan III (qv)
- Najum-ud-Daulah Mumtaz-ul-Mulk Momin
Khan Bahadur
Dilawar Jung Nawab Bande Ali Khan Mo'min Khan IV (qv)
- Nawabzada Yawar Ali Khan,
he waived his succession rights in favour of his son in 1841, married
and had issue.
- Najum-ud-Daulah Mumtaz-ul-Mulk Momin
Khan Bahadur
Dilawar Jung Nawab Husain Yawar Khan I Mo'min Khan V (qv)
- Najum-ud-Daulah
Mumtaz-ul-Mulk Khan Bahadur
Dilawar Jung Nawab FATEH ALI
KHAN MO'MIN KHAN III, 4th Nawab of Cambay 1790/1823,
eldest of three
sons, he sent a large present ot the Emperor of Delhi and in return he
received the additional titles of Najum-ud-Daulah
Mumtaz-ul-Mulk Khan
Bahadur Dilawar Jung, and the rank of a commander of six
thousand as
Nawab
of Cambay; by the Treaty of Bassein (31st December 1802) all the
Peshwa's rights in Cambay were ceded to the British, married and had
issue. He died spm in October
1823 (#2).
- Najum-ud-Daulah
Mumtaz-ul-Mulk Momin
Khan Bahadur
Dilawar Jung Nawab BANDE ALI KHAN MO'MIN KHAN IV, 5th Nawab of
Cambay 1823/1841, died 15th March 1841 (#2).
- Najum-ud-Daulah
Mumtaz-ul-Mulk Momin
Khan Bahadur
Dilawar Jung Nawab HUSAIN YAWAR KHAN I MO'MIN KHAN V, 6th Nawab
of Cambay 1841/1880, married
and had issue.
- HH Najum-ud-Daulah Mumtaz-ul-Mulk Momin
Khan Bahadur
Dilawar Jung Nawab Ja'afar Ali Khan Bahadur Mo'min Khan VI (qv)
- HH Najum-ud-Daulah
Mumtaz-ul-Mulk Momin
Khan Bahadur
Dilawar Jung Dawe Ekbalu Sardar Nawab JA'AFAR ALI KHAN Saheb Bahadur
Mo'min Khan VI, 7th Nawab of Cambay 1880/1915 ,
born 1848,
succeeded
11th June 1880 (#1),
married
1stly, 1876, Bibi Gauhar Khanum Saheb, daughter of the Maulvi of
Masulipatam, married 2ndly, 1882, Bibi
Khurshid Jahan
Begum.
He died 21st January 1915.
- HH Najum-ud-Daulah
Mumtaz-ul-Mulk Momin
Khan Bahadur
Dilawar Jung Nawab Mirza HUSAIN YAWAR KHAN II Bahadur Mo'min Khan VII,
8th Nawab of Cambay
1915/- , born
16th
May 1911, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot; married January 1936,
Nawabzadi Safia Sultan Qizilbash, daughter
of Nawab Sir Fateh Ali Khan Qizilbash of Lahore (see Nawabganj),
and had issue.
- HH Najum-ud-Daulah Mumtaz-ul-Mulk
Momin Khan Bahadur
Dilawar Jung Nawab Mirza Muhammed Ja'afar Ali Khan Bahadur Mo'min Khan
VIII (qv)
- Nawabzadi Batool Sultan, born 13th
December 1938.
- Nawabzada Asif Ali Khan (deceased).
- Nawabzadi Shahwar Sultan, born 16th
September 1941.
- Nawabzada Mirza Mohammed Reza Ali Khan, born 22nd
December 1943.
- Nawabzada Taqi Ali Khan, born 1st
November 1945.
- HH Najum-ud-Daulah
Mumtaz-ul-Mulk Momin
Khan Bahadur
Dilawar Jung Nawab Mirza MUHAMMED JA'AFAR ALI KHAN Bahadur Mo'min Khan
VIII, 9th Nawab of Cambay (see above)
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