VILLAGES: 193
AREA: km2
LOCATION: Oudh (Barabanki Distt.)
REVENUE: Rs
DYNASTY: Kidwai Sheikh
ACCESSION: xx
RELIGION: Muslim (Sunni)
PRESENT RULER: Raja MOHAMMAD JAMAL RASUL KHAN, present Raja of Jehangirabad
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Rulers were...
Raja RAZZAQ BAKSH, Raja of Jehangirabad, he was granted the title of Raja by the King of Oudh in 1854; married and had issue.
Rani Abunnissa Begum, married Raja Farzand Ali Khan of Maliaraiganj (later succeeded to Jehangirabad), and had issue (see below).
Raja FARZAND ALI KHAN, Raja of Jehangirabad -/1881, he was granted the title of Raja by the King of Oudh, later recognized as hereditary, married Rani Abunnissa Begum, daughter of Raja Razzaq Baksh of Jehangirabad (see above), and had issue, two daughters. He died 7th April 1881.
Rani Zebunissa Begum (qv)
Rajkumari (name unknown), married Raja Nawab Ali Khan, son of Raja Sheikh Mardan Ali Khan Risaldar Bahadur, Raja of Maliaraiganj, and had issue (see below).
Rani Zebunissa Begum, Rani of Jehangirabad 1881/-, born 28th October 1855 (#1) , married Raja Sheikh Sir Mohammed Tasadduk Rasul Khan, born 1851, died sp in 1921, K.C.S.I. [cr.1908], granted the title of Raja as a personal distinction 2nd January 1893, awarded the Sword of Honour in 1919, Vice President of the British-Indian Association 1900/1911.
Raja Sheikh Sir MOHAMMAD IJAZ RASUL KHAN, Raja of Jehangirabad, K.C.I.E., Kt., MLA, C.S.I., born 28th June 1886, educated at Colvin Taluqdars' School, Lucknow; Vice President of the British Indian Association, elected President in 1935; Member of the Court and Executive Council of Lucknow University; Member of the Court of Muslim University, Aligarh.
Raja MOHAMMAD JAMAL RASUL KHAN, Raja of Jehangirabad
Raja Sheikh HAIDER ALI KHAN, Raja of Maliaraiganj, member of the prominent Kidwai Clan (see Gadwal); married and had issue, two sons.
Raja Sheikh Mardan Ali Khan Risaldar Bahadur, succeeded to Maliaraiganj; married and had issue.
Raja Sheikh Fida Rasul Khan, Raja of Maliaraiganj, married and had issue, two sons and three daughters.
Raja Sheikh Sir Mohammad Ijaz Rasul Khan, succeeded to Jehangirabad (qv)
Raja Sheikh Imtiaz Rasul, Raja of Maliaraiganj (name changed to Rasulpur), married and had issue.
Raja Etizad Rasul Khan, Raja of Rasulpur, he died unmarried aged in his 30's.
Rajkumari Taqiunissa Begum (second daughter), married Khan Bahadur Syed Mahmood-ul-Hasan Kermani, Zamindar of Dewa, and had issue.
Raja Sheikh Sir Mohammed Tasadduk Rasul Khan, born 1851, C.S.I. [cr.1897], K.C.S.I. [cr.1908], granted the title of Raja as a personal distinction 2nd January 1893, awarded the Sword of Honour in 1919, Vice President of the Bristish-Indian Association 1900/1911, in 1900, he took part in the anti-Nagri protests and from 1902 to 1903 was a member of the UP legislative council; Vice-President of the Muslim League; Member of the provincial legislative council for the Fyzabad Division seat 1909/1912; he joined, the Lucknow South Africa protest and was involved in the Cawnpore Mosque deputation to Meston in 1913; he attended the special provincial conference on the Executive Council question in 1915; married Rani Zebunissa Begum, elder daughter of Raja Farzand Ali Khan (see above). He died sp 1921.
Raja Nawab Ali Khan, married a younger daughter of Raja Farzand Ali Khan (see above), and had issue.
Raja Naushad Ali Khan, Raja of Maliaraiganj (qv)
Raja Farzand Ali Khan, he succeeded to Jehangirabad (qv)
Raja NAUSHAD ALI KHAN, Raja of Maliaraiganj, Member of the provisional committee of the All India Muslim League; first secretary of the U.P. provincial Muslim League after its foundation in June 1909; he was supported by his uncle, the Raja of Jehangirabad in 1909 as a candidate for the Oudh Muslim seat on the provincial legislative council; married but died sp aged 35. He had lived extravagantly, often giving donations beyond his means to public causes, e.g. five thousand rupees to the Mohsin-ul-Mulk Memorial Fund at Aligarh. And when he died his estate was sold off to pay his debts.
Smt. Roomi Fatima, Rani of Maliaraiganj
1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 p. 583