VILLAGES: x
AREA: 3,224.55 km2
LOCATION: Pakistan (Frontier State)
TITLE: Tham (to 1905)
PRIVY PURSE: xx
REVENUE: Rs
DYNASTY: Maghlot
ACCESSION: 25th September 1974
RELIGION: Muslim
POPULATION: 13,672 (1931)
PRESENT RULER: HH Raja Mir QASIM ALI KHAN, Raja of Nagar since 2011 (Islamabad, Pakistan)
Installed in September 2011, married 3rd October 2009 in Islamabad, Pakistan, HH Rani Pashmina (née Ahmed).
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: An autonomous principality founded in the 14th century, as an off-shoot of Hunza state, it came under the control of the British from 1889, though it was still considered a vassal of the Maharaja of Kashmir. Acceded to Pakistan in 1947, but remained a self-governing state until the 25th September 1974. Rulers were....
The Ruler of Gilgit ca 1720/1750
Unknown Ruler 1750/-
Unknown Ruler -/1828
TAHIR KHAN, Tham of Nagar 1828/1837, Ra of Gilgit 1830/1837
ASGHAR KHAN, Tham of Nagar in 1837
SHAH SIKANDAR KHAN I, Tham of Nagar 1837/1840, Mehtar of Yasin and Ra of Gilgit 1837/1840, assasinated in 1840.
KARIM KHAN, Tham of Nagar 1840/1845 and Ra of Gilgit 1842/1845
Mir FADL KHAN
Mir DA'UD KHAN
Mir ALIDAD KHAN
Mir HARI THAM KHAN
Mir KAMAL KHAN
Mir RAHIM KHAN I
Mir RAHIM KHAN II, Tham of Nagar -/1839, died 1839.
Mir JAAFAR ZAHID KHAN, Tham of Nagar 1839 or 1845/1886 (deposed and deported) and 1892/1904, died 1904.
Mir GHORI THAM KHAN, Tham of Nagar in 1886, he was shot to death with his foster father, Kalam-e-Thoni, at Yale-e-Bai, a place between Yal Ghulmet and Pisan Nagar in July 1886.
Raja Mir OZOR KHAN [Uzar Khan], Usurper Tham of Nagar 1886/1892, he fled in 1892, was caught and was sent to Kashmir, died 1922.
REGENCY 1892/1904
Raja Mir Sir SHAH SIKANDAR KHAN II K.B.E., C.I.E., Raja of Nagar 1905/1940, born 1871, C.I.E. [cr.1903], K.B.E. (Civil)[cr.1922], he was granted a Nine Gun Salute in 1932; married and had issue. He died 1940.
HH Raja Mir SHAUKAT ALI KHAN, Raja of Nagar 1940/2003, born 1909, married and had issue. He died 22nd May 2003.
HH Raja Mir Barkat Ali Khan (qv)
Mir Basharat Ali
Mir Haibat Ali
Princess Shaukatara
Princess Mussarat, married Prince Abbass of Hunza.
HH Raja Mir BARKAT ALI KHAN, Raja of Nagar 2003/2011, married HH Rani Rahat (née Qureshi), and had issue, one son and two daughters. He died 2011 in a road accident, while travelling between Najaf and Basra in Iraq, buried in the Waadi-e-Islam cemetery in Najaf.
Princess Farah Pooya
Princess Saima
Mir Qasim Ali Khan, he succeeded as HH Raja Mir Kassim Ali Khan (qv)
HH Raja Mir QASIM ALI KHAN, present Raja of Nagar (qv)
OTHER MEMBERS:
Raja Yusuf Ali Khan, great grandson of Raja Uzur Khan, the regent of Nagar.