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PRESENT RULER: Nawab MIR USMAN ALAM KHAN Bahadur, Nawab of Belha and head of the senior branch of the Nawab of Surat's family, since 28th August 1989. (Nawab's Palace, Surat 395 003, India)
born 22nd January 1935, educated at St. Xavier's College, Bombay (Bachelor of Arts) and at Siddharth College, Bombay (Bachelor of Commerce), married 30th June 1968 in Hyderabad, Kulsum Begum Sahiba, Begum of Belha, and has issue.
Nawabzada Mir Maqbool Alam Khan Bahadur [Prince Mickey], Waliad Nawab.
Nawabzadi Fatima Begum [Princess Tammy] (Mrs. Bucktiyar Quadry)
Nawabzadi Zehra Batul Begum [Princess Zara]
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Belha is a small principality near Poona. It was founded through military means and direct conquest by Nawab Maqbool Alam Khan Bahadur, a mansabdar under Emperor Aurangzeb. After the Mughal Empire's collapse, the Belha Nawabs declared themselves independent and fought alongside the Peshwa rulers of Poona against the British in the early 19th century, but they lost and paid the price, being reduced in status to that of an estate. Rulers were...
Nawab MAQBOOL ALAM KHAN -/1743, originally the Nawab of Junner (of which Belha was then part), and first Nawab of Belha.
Nawab MIR MAHMUD ALAM KHAN Bahadur 1743/-, ruled jointly with his brother.
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Nawab MIR ABDUL HUSSAIN ALAM KHAN Bahadur
Nawab MIR MAHMD ALAM KHAN Bahadur, married and had issue.
Nawab MIR SAEED ALAM KHAN Bahadur (qv)
Nawab MIR SAEED ALAM KHAN Bahadur, married Musammatpanah Zia-ul-Nissa Ladli Begum Sahiba, daughter of Darbar Shri Mir Jafur Ali Khan of Kamadhia, and had issue.
Nawab MIR ABDUL RASOOL ALAM KHAN Bahadur (qv)
Nawab MIR ABDUL RASOOL ALAM KHAN Bahadur -/1921, married daughter of the last Nawab of Surat Royal family, and had issue. He died 1929
Nawab MIR MASUD ALAM KHAN Bahadur (qv)
Nawabzada Mir Saeed Alam Khan
Nawab MIR MASUD ALAM KHAN Bahadur, Nawab Saheb of Belha 1921/1943, C.I.E. [cr.1926], Nawab of Belha and head of the senior branch of the Nawab of Surat's family, he was the direct descendant of the last Ruling Nawab of Surat from the maternal side, married Mahmudannissa Begum Sahiba of Belha, and had issue. He died 1943.
Nawab MIR SULTAN ALAM KHAN Bahadur 1943/1989, married Nawabzadi Saida Bano Begum of Loharu, and had issue. He died 28th August 1989.
Nawab MIR USMAN ALAM KHAN Bahadur (qv)
Nawab MIR USMAN ALAM KHAN Bahadur, Nawab of Surat and Belha (see above)
There are three branches of Surat royal family: The Nawab of Belha branch is the senior-most, and the junior branch of the Nawab of Surat’s family now settled in the UK and the US. The third branch and its members are direct descendants of the male heirs of Nawab Mir Jaffur Alee Khan Bahadur of Surat. He was the son-in-law of the last Nawab of Surat, Mir Afzaluddin, and fought in British Parliament for his succession. His descendants from his son Mir Zulfikar Ali are known as the Darbars of Kamadhia and scions of the Nawabs of Surat.
With the death of the last powerful Mughal emperor, Aurangzeb, in 1707, the hold of Delhi began to weaken all over India, and in Surat, the local nawab Tegbeg Khan declared himself the city's autonomous ruler. His position was weak, however, and the British conquered Surat in 1759.
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