PRESENT RULER: Nawab SHAH NAWAZ MAMDOT (Mamdot Villa, Lahore, Pakistan)

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The city of Kasur, approximately 52 kilometres south of Lahore, was settled by some 3,500 pathans in 1570 with the permission of Padshah Akbar of Delhi. They remained there until it was overrun by the sikhs led by Sardar Gulab Singh. They were driven out by Nizamuddin and Qutbuddin in 1794, and they established a chiefship of their own, which was subject to a series of attacks by the Sikhs, holding Kasur until 1807, when Qutbuddin had to submit to Maharaja Ranjit Singh, who allowed him to keep the jagir of Mamdot. Rulers were....

• SULTAN KHAN, Chief of Kasur, married and had issue.

  • MAUJUDDIN KHAN (qv)

  • Muhammad Khan

• MAUJUDDIN KHAN, Chief of Kasur, married and had issue.

  • NIZAMUDDIN (qv)

  • QUTBUDDIN KHAN (qv)

• NIZAMUDDIN, Chief of Kasur 1794/1802, married and had issue. He died 1802.

  • Fatehdin Khan, he was granted a jagir at Marup in the Gogaira district, in 1831 he attacked his uncle, and defeated him, but Maharaja Ranjit Singh, confirmed Jamaluddin as the owner of Mamdot. He died about 1845

• QUTBUDDIN KHAN, Chief of Kasur 1794/1807, Jagirdar of Mamdot 1800/1831; he conquered Mamdot from the Rai of Raikot in 1800, but lost control of Kasur in 1807; married and had issue. He died about 1831 at Amritsar.

  • Kali Khan

  • Nawab JAMALUDDIN KHAN (qv)

  • Nawab JALALUDDIN KHAN (qv)

• Nawab JAMALUDDIN KHAN 1831/1856 (deposed), Nawab [cr.1848], married and had issue. He died of apoplexy in March 1863 at Macchewarah in Firozepur district.

  • Nawabzada Khan Bahdur Khan, born 1838, married and had issue.

    • Nawab Sir SHAH NAWAZ KHAN (qv)

    • Sahibzada Akbar Khan, born 1886.

    • Sahibzada Fatehuddin Khan, born 1887.

  • Muhammad Khan, died 1872.

INTERREGNUM 1856/1864 (succession was prevented by a dispute between the sons of Jamaluddin, and their uncle Jalaluddin, who was the choice of the British Government, but he chose to accompany his brother in exile, and even refused to accept maintenance for himself.)

• Nawab JALALUDDIN KHAN, declared hereditary Nawab of Mamdot on the 5th December 1864 ^(#1), married and had issue. He died May 1875.

  • Nawab NIZAMUDDIN KHAN (qv)

• Nawab NIZAMUDDIN KHAN 1875/-, born 1862.

• Nawab GHULAM QUTBUDDIN KHAN -/1928, married Sahibzadi Meher Bano, daughter of HH Al-Haj Nawab Mirza Sir AMIRUDDIN AHMED KHAN Bahadur of Loharu, and his wife, Akhtaree Begum. He died sp 1928.

INTERREGNUM 1928/1931

• Nawab Sir SHAH NAWAZ KHAN 1931/1942, Nawab [cr.1931], born 1883 at Mamdot, joined the Hyderabad State Police after 1907, joined the Unionist Party of Punjab, joined the All India Muslim League in 1938 and became President of the Punjab Muslim League; he played a pivotal role in organizing the historic session of the All India Muslim League in March 1940 at Lahore. He was the Chairman of the Reception Committee. He remained President of the Punjab Muslim League and member of the All India Muslim League Working Committee till his death; married two Princesses from Pataudi, and had issue. He died 28th March 1942.

  • Nawab IFTIKHAR HUSSAIN KHAN (qv)

• Nawab IFTIKHAR HUSSAIN KHAN -/1969, born 1906 in Lahore, educated at Government College, Lahore; joined the Police Service in Hyderabad, Member of the All-India Muslim League, President of the Punjab Provincial Muslim League 1942/1944, Chief Minister of the West Punjab 1947/1949, Member of the Pakistan Constituent Assembly 1947/1955, Governor of Sindh 1954/1955, married and had issue. He died 16th October 1969.

  • Nawab PERVAIZ IFTIKHAR MAMDOT (qv)

  • Nawab Jamshed Iftikhar Mamdot, died 29th June 1999.

• Nawab PERVAIZ IFTIKHAR MAMDOT 1969/-

• Nawab SHAH NAWAZ MAMDOT (see above)