Indian Princely States

MALER KOTLA (Princely State)

(11 gun salute)

VILLAGES: x

AREA: 427 km²

STATE: Pepsu

REVENUE: 140,000Rs (1948)

DYNASTY: x

PRIVY PURSE: 110,000Rs

ACCESSION: 20th August 1948

RELIGION: Muslim

POPULATION: 90,000 (1892)

PRESENT RULER:

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Predecessor state was founded in 1454 when Sheikh Sadruddin Sadr-i-Jahan married a daughter of Sultan Bahlul Lodi of Delhi (1451/1489), and was given 68 villages near Ludhiana in jagir. Bayezid Khan (died 1657) was the first Nawab and founder of the Princely State. The state ranked 12th in the Punjab Darbar (1890). Rulers were...

Sheikh SADRUDDIN Sadr-i-Jahan, Chief of Malerkotla 1454/1508

Sheikh EISA, Chief of Malerkotla 1508/1538

Khan MUHAMMED SHAH, Chief of Malerkotla 1538/1545

Khwaja MADUD KHAN, Chief of Malerkotla 1545/1566

Khan FATEH MUHAMMED KHAN, Chief of Malerkotla 1566/1600

Nawab BAYEZID KHAN, Nawab of Malerkotla 1600/1657, died 1657.

Nawab FEROZ KHAN, Nawab of Malerkotla 1657/1672

Nawab SHER MUHAMMED KHAN, Nawab of Malerkotla 1672/1712, married and had issue, seven sons.
- Nawab Jamal Khan (qv)

Nawab GHULAM HUSAIN KHAN, Nawab of Malerkotla 1712/1717

Nawab JAMAL KHAN, Nawab of Malerkotla 1717/1755, married and had issue, five sons.
- Nawab Bhikan Khan (qv)
- Nawab Bahadur Khan (qv)
- Nawab Umar Khan (qv)
- Nawab Asadullah Khan (qv)
- Nawab Ataullah Khan (qv)

Nawab BHIKAN KHAN, Nawab of Malerkotla 1755/1763, married and had issue.
- Nawab Wazir Ali Khan (qv)
- Nawabzada Fateh Khan, married and had issue.
  - Sahibzada Faizullah Khan
  - Sahibzada Faiz Talab Khan, married and had issue.
    - Sahibzada Yakub Ali Khan

Nawab BAHADUR KHAN, Nawab of Malerkotla 1763/1766, married and had issue.
- Nawabzada Himat Khan, married and had issue.
  - Sahibzada Rustam Ali Khan
  - Sahibzada Faiz Ali KHan
- Nawabzada Dalel Khan, married and had issue.
  - Sahibzada Ghulam Muhammed Khan, he contested for the Maler Kotla gaddi in 1871, but was overlooked; married and had issue. He died 1877.
    - Sahibzada Ahsan Ali Khan, he served as a Viceregal Darbari of the Dehli Division; married and had issue.
      - Sahibzada Muhammed Mohsan Ali Khan, died 1888.
      - Khan Muhammed Ihsan Ali Khan, born 1890, educated at Aitchison Chiefs' College, Lahore; married and had issue.
        Khan Hassan Ali Khan, married a daughter of the Nawab of Kunjpura in Karnal Distt.
    - Sahibzada Bakar Ali Khan
    - Sahibzada Muhammed Ali Khan
    - The Hon. Nawab Sir Zulfiqar Ali Khan, born August 1873, Kt., C.S.I. [cr.1911], educated at Aitchison Chiefs' College, Lahore; appointed Extra-Assistant Commissioner at Ludhiana, but resigned in 1895; Member, Punjab Chiefs' Association; Member of the Legislative Council of His Excellency the Viceroy 1910/-; Chief Minister, Patiala State; married and had issue. He died 26th May 1933.
      - Honourable Nawabzada Khurshid Ali Khan, born 1909 at Lahore, M.B.E., educated at Aitchison Chiefs' College, Lahore and at Cambridge Preparatory School, Dehra Dun then privately in England.
      - Begum Saheba Kudsia, born 2nd April 1909; M.L.A. (Uttar Pradesh) 1937/1952 and 1969/1990; Member, Constituent Assembly 1946/1950; Member of Parliament 1950/1952; Member of the Rajya Sabha 1952/1956 and 1962/1968; Minister, Social Welfare and Minorities 1969/1971. She had been the president/office bearer of almost all women's voluntary organizations like All India Women's Conference, Council of Child Welfare, Council of Moral and Social Hygiene and Council of University Women etc. In the field of education she contributed her full might to spread it particularly among girls. She was the president of Karamat Husain Muslim Girls Degree College Lucknow, I.R. College, Sandila and Aizaz Rasool Degree College, Sandila. President of the All India Women’s Hockey Association for twenty years. She was also the chairperson of UP Minorities Commission 1979/1989, married Nawab Syed Aizaz Rasul of Sandila, and had issue, two sons and two daughters. She died 1st August 2001 and was laid to rest with full state honours at her ancestral graveyard in Sandila, near Lucknow.^(#2)
    - Sahibzada Yusuf Ali Khan
    - Sahibzada (name unknown), married HH Nawab Muhammed Ibrahim Ali Khan, Nawab of Malerkotla (see below).

Nawab UMAR KHAN, Nawab of Malerkotla 1766/1780, married and had issue.
- Nawabzada Hasain Khan, married and had issue.
  - Sahibzada Sultan Khan
  - Sahibzada Torabaz Khan

Nawab ASADULLAH KHAN, Nawab of Malerkotla 1780/1784, married and had issue. He died 1782/1784.
- Nawabzada Muhammed Ali Khan

Nawab ATAULLAH KHAN, Nawab of Malerkotla 1784/1810, married and had issue. He died 1809/1810.
- Nawabzada Rahmat Ali Khan, married and had issue. He died 1852.
  - Sahibzada Muhammed Dilawar Ali Khan, married and had issue. He died 1861.
    - HH Nawab Mihammed Ibrahim Ali Khan (qv)
    - Sahibzada Inayat Ali Khan, Aide-de-Camp during the Afghan War in the staff of General John Watson; married and had issue.
      - Sahibzada Muhammed Abdullah Khan, died 1889.
  - Sahibzada Sadat Ali Khan
- Nawabzada Fazal Ali Khan
- Nawabzada Amam Ali Khan

Nawab WAZIR ALI KHAN, Nawab of Malerkotla 1810/1821, married and had issue.
- Nawab Amir Ali Khan (qv)

Nawab AMIR ALI KHAN, Nawab of Malerkotla 1821/1845, married and had issue.
- Nawab Mahbub Ali Khan (qv)

Nawab MAHBUB ALI KHAN, Nawab of Malerkotla 1845/1859, married Nawab Maher Begum, and had issue.
- Nawab Sikander Ali Khan (qv)

Nawab SIKANDER ALI KHAN, Nawab of Malerkotla 1859/1871, he was granted a sanad of adoption in 1861; married and had issue, as well as adoptive issue. He died 1871.
- Nawabzada Ghaus Muhammed Khan, died vpsp.
- Nawabzada Roshan Ali Khan, died vpsp.
- (A) HH Nawab Muhammed Ibrahim Ali Khan (qv)

HH Nawab MUHAMMED IBRAHIM ALI KHAN, Nawab of Malerkotla 1871/1908, born 1857 (1858), succeeded 16th July 1871 ^(#1), married a daughter of Sahibzada Ghulam Muhammed Khan, and had issue. He died 1908.
- Nawabzada Ishaq Ali Khan, died 1884.
- Lt.Col. HH Nawab Sir Muhammed Ahmad Ali Khan Bahadur (qv)
- Nawabzada Muhammed Ali Khan

Lt.Col. HH Nawab Sir MUHAMMED AHMAD ALI KHAN Bahadur K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E., Nawab of Malerkotla 1908/1947, K.C.S.I. [cr.1915], K.C.I.E. [cr.1921], born 10th September 1881 and succeeded 23rd August 1908 ^(#3), Lieutenant Colonel (Indian Army). Died 16th October 1947.

HH Nawab IFTIKHAR ALI KHAN Bahadur, Nawab of Malerkotla 1947/1982 , MLA, married 4thly (div. 1980), HH Nawab Sajida Begum, MLA, (married 2ndly, Haji Anwer Ahmed Khan). He died sp in 1982.