PRESENT RULER:

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Mangrol Chiefship is an administration having plenary jurisdictional powers analagous to those of Second Class states as known in Kathiawar. Its relations with Junagadh of Political Subordination are mediatized by the British government, and as such, Mangrol is styled as a "Mediatized Taluka under Junagadh". The estate of Mangrol has been subject to Junagadh since 1767. Its twenty-one villages are scattered over a wide area in Junagadh state. Estate holders were .....

1. Meherban Sheikh Shri MIAN, 1st Sheikh Sahib of Mangrol 1749/1783, died 1783.

2. Meherban Sheikh Shri BADRUDDIN, 2nd Sheikh Sahib of Mangrol 1783/1816, died 1816.

3. Meherban Sheikh Shri ABA MIAN, 3rd Sheikh Sahib of Mangrol 1816/1824, died 1824

4. Meherban Sheikh Shri BADA MIAN, 4th Sheikh Sahib of Mangrol 1824/1874

5. Meherban Sheikh Shri MUHAMMAD BADRUDDIN, 5th Sheikh Sahib of Mangrol 1874/1879, married and had issue. He died 1879.

   • Meherban Sheikh Shri Hussain Mian Saheb (qv)

   • Meherban Sheikh Shri MuhammadD Jehangir Mian Saheb (qv)

REGENCY in 1879

6. Meherban Sheikh Shri HUSSAIN MIAN, 6th Sheikh Sahib of Mangrol 1879/1908, married (as her first husband), Sahibzadi Fakhrunnisa Begum, daughter of HH Al-Haj Nawab Mirza Sir Amiruddin Ahmed Khan Bahadur K.C.I.E., 5th Nawab of Loharu. He died 1908.

7. Meherban Sheikh Shri MUHAMMAD JEHANGIR MIAN SAHEB, 7th Sheikh Sahib of Mangrol [27.6.1908] - [4.1.1941] ^(#1), born 1860, Dewan of Mangrol, he abdicated in favour of his son on 4th January 1941; married and had issue, seven sons.

   • Meherban Sheikh Shri Abdul Khaliq Mian Saheb (qv)

   • Nawabzada Mohammed Sadiq, married Nawabzadi Shahzadi Begum [Begum Mohammed Sadiq of Mangrol], daughter of Nawab Mir Masud Alam Khan Bahadur of Belha, and has issue.

     • Sahibbzada Bahauddin, married Nawabzadi Fawzia Begum, daughter of Nawab Mir Sultan Alam Khan of Belha, and has issue, two children.

       • Sahibzada Moinuddin Aslam, married and has issue, one daughter.

         • Sahibzadi Safiya

       • Sahibzadi Sameena Khan, married and has issue, two daughters.

         • Asiya Khan

         • Sarah Khan

8. Meherban Sheikh Shri ABDUL KHALIQ MIAN SAHEB, 8th Sheikh Sahib of Mangrol [4.1.1941] - [24.8.1943], born 5th November 1896, he succeeded his father on his abdication on 4th January 1941; married and had issue, six sons and one daughter. He died 1943.

   • Meherban Sheikh Shri Muhammad Nasiruddin Mian Saheb (qv)

   • Shaikh Mohamed Saeedsaheb Abdulkhaliq, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1947)

   • Sheikh Mahomed Zahid Abdul Khaliq, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1959)

9. Meherban Sheikh Shri MUHAMMAD NASIRUDDIN MIAN SAHEB, 9th Sheikh Sahib of Mangrol [25.8.1943] - [1947], born 9th August 1916, educated privately till 1930, then at Rajkumar College, Rajkot till 1934; he then went to Dehra Dun and joined Col. Brown's Cambridge School to prepare himself for the Senior Cambridge examination, remaining there till 1936, after which he went to England in 1937; he was accepted by Cambridge University in 1938 and after studying there for one year, the 2nd WW intervened and he was unable to finish the course; he played Cricket for the County of Northamptonshire for two years; installed as Sheikh of Mangrol in October 1943, married 25th April 1940 at Manavadar, daughter of Khan Saheb Shri Fatehuddin Khan Ghazanfar Khan Babi, Nawab Saheb of Manavadar.

OTHER MEMBERS:

• Maj. Sheikh Mohammed Ali, died 1965

• Kumar Shri Nazir Ahmed Shaikh, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1948)

• Shaikh Ziaurrahman A. Bin Hamid educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1950)

• Shaikh Ahmeduddin Abdul Aziz, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1958)

• Sheikh Mohamed Kalim Mohamed Salim, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot (1972)

The help of John Duncan McMeekin, is gratefully acknowledged, June 2014.