TITLES: Mir 1680/1850; Khan 1850/1909; Khan Sahib 1909/1911; Sardar 1911/1919; Sardar Bahadur 1919/1921 and Nawab from 1921.

PRESENT RULER: His Highness, the Nawab of Kharan

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: A state founded before 1697 and feudatory to Kalat. Became independent of Kalat in 1940, acceded to Pakistan on 17th March 1948 and was dissolved on 14th October 1955. Rulers were....

• Mir MUHAMMED KHAN 1650/-

• Mir ABBAS KHAN I

• Malik DOSTEN KHAN

• Malik DINAR KHAN I

• Mir LALLA KHAN

• Mir FEROZ KHAN

• Malik DOSTEN KHAN II

• Mir SHAHDAD KHAN

• Mir RAHMAT KHAN -/1711, died 1711.

• Miur PURDIL KHAN 1711/1747 or 1711/1759

• Mir ABBAS KHAN II 1747? and 1764/1796

• Mir SHAHDAD KHAN II 1747/1759 or 1759/1764

• Mir ABBAS KHAN II 1764/1796

• Mir JAHANGIR KHAN 1796/1804 (deposed), succeeded by adoption, died 1806.

• Mir ABBAS KHAN III 1810/1833 or 1804/1835, died 1835.

• Khan Mir AZAD KHAN 1833/1885, born 1794, died 1885.

• Khan Sir Mir NOWRUZ KHAN Bahadur [Nauroz Khan] K.C.I.E., 1885/1909, born 1855, died 1909.

• Khan Sahib Mir MUHAMMED YAQUB KHAN 1909/1911, born 1873, married and had issue. He was assasinated 19th April 1911.

  • Khan Sahib Amir Khan (qv)

  • Sardar Bahadur Nawab Mir Habiballah Khan (qv)

  • Nawabzada Shahbaz Khan Nowsherani, born in Kharan city, served as the President of Kalat State National Party in 1937/38. Joined the Baloch League in 1946. Joined Muslim League in 1948 and People’s Party in 1974.

• Khan Sahib AMIR KHAN, born 1896, he usurped the musnaid in 1911 and was deposed after a short time.

• Sardar Bahadur Nawab Mir HABIB ALLAH KHAN 1911/1958, born 1897, succeeded 17th September 1911, he was granted the title of Sardar in 1911, the title of Sardar Bahadur in 1919 and Nawab in 1921; married and had issue. He died 1958.

  • Nawabzada Nustafa Khan Nausherwani, born 1915, married and had issue. He died 196x.

    • Sahibzada Ghulam Mustafa Khan Nausherwani, born in or about 1936.