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VILLAGES: 88 (+2 towns)
AREA: 1,015 km2
STATE: Bombay (now Anand Dist., Gujarat)
PRIVY PURSE: 138,000Rs
REVENUE: Rs
DYNASTY: Najam-es-Sani
ACCESSION: 10th June 1948
RELIGION: Muslim (Shia)
PRESENT RULER: HH Najum-ud-Daulah Mumtaz-ul-Mulk Momin Khan Bahadur Dilawar Jung Nawab Mirza MUHAMMED JA'AFAR ALI KHAN Bahadur Mo'min Khan VIII, 10th Nawab of Cambay
born 15th October 1936, married Begum Parvin Sultan Qizilbash, daughter of Sardar Baqir Ali Khan Qizilbash of Lahore.
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The state was founded in 1730. Also known as Kambay or Khambhat, it is an ancient port city of Gujarat. 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)
1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 , p.95
2. The Bombay Gazetteer, pp. 231-233
Cambay was formerly a flourishing city, the seat of an extensive trade, and celebrated for its manufactures of silk, chintz and gold stuffs. The Arab traveler al-Mas'udi visited the city in 915 AD, describing it as a very successful port; it was mentioned in 1293 by Marco Polo, who, calling it Cambaet, noted it as a busy port. He mentions that the city had its own king. Indigo and fine buckram were particular products of the region, but much cotton and leather was exported through Cambay. In the early 1340s, the Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta remarked on its impressive architecture and cosmopolitan population.
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