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 state ranked 17th in the
Panjab Darbar (1890). 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 Khan
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 (#3),
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.
|
Nawab SAIF ALI
KHAN, 10th Nawab of Pataudi since 22nd September
2011.
