PRESENT RULER: Nawab ZAFAR ALI KHAN, 10th Nawab of Kurwai since 1986.

married and has issue.

• Nawabzada Feroz Mohammad Khan

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Founded in 1730. Rulers were...

1. Nawab MUHAMMED DALAL KHAN, 1st Nawab of Kurwai 1730/175x, he first entered the service of the Raja of Datia, and later in around 1726 the service of the Raja of Basoda; he seized the state on the death of the Chief of Kurwai; married and had issue, two sons.

   • Nawab Muhammed 'Izzat Khan, he succeeded in Kurwai (qv)

   • Nawab Ahsanullah Khan, married and had issue, the Nawabs of Basoda and Muhammadgarh.

2. Nawab MUHAMMED 'IZZAT KHAN, 2nd Nawab of Kurwai 175x/-

3. Nawab HORMAT KHAN, 3rd Nawab of Kurwai -/1820, married and had issue, as well as further issue.

   • Nawabzada Iradat Muhammed Khan, he appealed to the British to restore him to the throne, but they refused and offered an annuity of 6,000Rs, if he gave up his claim to the throne.

   • Nawab Muhammed Akbar Khan (by a secondary union)(qv)

4. Nawab MUHAMMED AKBAR KHAN, 4th Nawab of Kurwai 1820/1843, he seized the throne in preference to the legitimate son, married and had issue, two sons. He died 1843.

   • Nawab Muhammed Muzaffar Khan (qv)

   • Nawab Muhammed Nazaf Khan (qv)

5. Nawab MUHAMMED MUZAFFAR KHAN, 5th Nawab of Kurwai 1843/1858, married and had issue. He died spm 1858.

   • Nawabzadi (name unknown) Begum, married the Nawab of Basoda. and had issue, one son.

6. Nawab MUHAMMED NAZAF KHAN, 6th Nawab of Kurwai 1858/1887, born 1824, married and had issue. He died 15th January 1887.

   • Nawabzadi (name unknown) Begum, married Nawabzada Mazhar Ali Khan, Regent of Kurwai 1887/-, and had issue.

     • Nawab Munawar Ali Khan (qv)

7. Nawab MUNAWAR ALI KHAN, 7th Nawab of Kurwai 1887/1896, born 1869, succeeded 15th January 1887 ^(#1).

8. Nawab MUHAMMED YAQUB ALI KHAN, 8th Nawab of Kurwai 1896/1906, married and had issue.

   • Nawab Muhammed Sarwar Ali Khan (qv)

   • Nawabzadi Ahmad Zaman

   • Nawabzadi Mohammed Zaman

   • Nawabzadi Yusuf Zaman

9. Nawab MUHAMMED SARWAR ALI KHAN, 9th Nawab of Kurwai 1906/1986 (under a regency 1906/1919), born 1st December 1901, married 1stly, 1933 (sep'd. 1934) Nawab Gauhar-e-Taj Abida Sultaan Begum Sahiba, born 28th August 1913, died 11th May 2002, eldest daughter of Col. HH Nawab Hamidullah Khan of Bhopal, and his first wife, HH Maimuna Sultan Shah Banu Begum Sahiba, married 2ndly, Nawabzadi Ayesha Begum of Wai, and had issue. He died 1986.

   • Nawabzada Shaharyar Muhammed Khan, born 1934, educated at Cambridge University and Fletcher University where he was a student in the department of Law and Diplomacy. In 1957, he began his career as a Minister of Foreign Affairs in Pakistan and has had a diplomatic career ever since, being posted in: London (1960/1962 and 1971/1975); Tunisia (1963/19 66); Geneva (1970/1971), he was named Pakistani Ambassador in Jordan (1977/1982); and High Commissioner of Pakistan to the United Kingdom (1987/1990), he has performed many functions: Director (1969/1970); Director General (1975/1977); and Assistant to the Secretary General (1982/1987) before occupying the post of Secretary General between 1990 and 1994. He also presided over the Foreign Affairs Minister's Reform Commission which was put into place in July of 1997. After his retirement, Shaharyar Khan was named Special Representative to the Secretary General of the UN for Rwanda (1994/1996), and then President of the Pakistani Refugee Committee (1997/1998). He has managed the Pakistani national cricket team since the tournament that took place in India at the beginning of 1999. He is also the author of "Begums of Bhopal", a look at the female rulers of this muslim state.

   • Nawabzadi Kaiser Zaman, married and has issue.

     • Sahibzadi Mariyam

     • Sahibzadi Ziya

   • Nawab Zafar Ali Khan (qv)

   • Nawabzada Munawwar Ali Khan

10. Nawab ZAFAR ALI KHAN, 10th Nawab of Kurwai (see above)