PRESENT RULER: Nawab RAZA ALI KHAN QIZILBASH, present Nawab of Nawabganj since 1944.

married and has issue.

• Nawabzada Fateh Ali Khan

• Nawabzada Muzaffar Ali Khan

• Nawabzada Jaan Ali Khan

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The family are Shia Muslims of the Asna Ashari sect and are governed by the Imamia law. The Qizilbash family has its roots in Iran and Afghanistan. According to one account, they came to India with the Mughal Emperor Humayun from Persia. Estate holders were...

• Sardar NAUROZ ALI KHAN, married and had issue.

  • Sardar Ali Khan (qv)

• Sardar ALI KHAN, he was the first of this family to leave Sherwan, on the west coast of the Caspian (now in Russia), where for many generations, his family, Turks of the Kizilbash tribe, had resided and exercised authority, he accompanied Nadir Shah on his campaign to India in 1738, he served throughtout the campaign, and on his return from India, he was appointed Governor of Kandhar, he obtained the district of Hazara from Ahmad Shah Durrani, who he accompanied to India in 1760, and shared in his victory at Panipat in 1761, married and had issue. He was assassinated in 1770 by his attendants on the orders of Ahmad Shah Durrani.

  • Sardar Gul Muhammed Khan, born 1764, he was granted the title of Sardar by Timur Shah, married and had issue. He died 1835.

    • Sardar Ali Akbar Khan, died shortly after his father.

    • Sardar Ali Jan Khan, he succeeded to his father's estates. He died after 1864.

  • Sardar Hidayat Ali Khan (qv)

  • Sardar Ali Muhammed Khan, he accompanied Wazir Fateh Khan in 1813 in their successful expedition against Kashmir

• Sardar HIDAYAT ALI KHAN, he accompanied Shah Zaman Durrani to Lahore in 1797, and remained there for some months, married and had issue, six sons. He died 1836.

  • Sardar Muhammed Hassan Khan, he served under Wazir Fateh Muhammed Khan at Hirat-khan, then later he served well the British Government during the Afghanistan campaign,

  • Sardar Muhammed Husain Khan, he served Muhammad Azim Khan in Kashmir, and then Dost Muhammed Khan in Kabul, later went on pilgrimage to Arabia, where he resided for some years before returning to Kabul.

  • Sardar Haji Muhammed Khan, he served as Minister to Habibullah of Kabul.

  • Nawab Ali Raza Khan (qv)

  • Sardar Mohammed Raza Khan, he was twice wounded at Mallu and Shamsabad, and afterwards he received the first-class Order of Merit, the title of Sardar Bahadur and the grant of his pension of 200Rs p.m. in perpetuity, married and had issue. He died at Lucknow.

    • Sardar Raza Ali Khan

  • Sardar Muhammed Takki Khan, he was killed, fighting bravely, at Khasniganj in 1857.

• Nawab ALI RAZA KHAN Bahadur, 1st Taluqdar of Nawabganj, he succeeded to his hereditary estate ^(#2), appointed Chief Agent of the Commissariat Department by the British when its army first entered Kabul, he remained firm to British interests, in India, he joined the British camp during the Sutlej campaign with his brothers and sixty horsemen of his tribe, and fought in the battles of Mudki, Firushahr and Sobraon, he accompanied Major H. Lawrence to Kangra and Kashmir in 1846, and furnished 100 horsemen during the rebellion of 1848-49, in June 1857, he raised a troop of horse at his own expense for service before Delhi, this troop formed part of the celebrated 'Hodson's Horse', he was granted the title of Khan Bahadur in 1859 and that of Nawab in 1862 for services to the British during their campaign in Afghanistan, appointed Honorary Magistrate of Lahore, after the mutiny he was granted a Taluqdari estate in the Bahraich district of Oudh, comprising 147 villages, married and had issue, three sons. He died 1865.

  • Nawab Sir Nawazish Ali Khan (qv)

  • Nawab Nasir Ali Khan (qv)

  • Nawabzada Sardar Nisar Ali Khan, Manager of the Nawabganj estate, created an Honorary Assistant Commissioner, married and had issue. He died 1878.

    • Haji Nawab Sir Fateh Ali Khan (qv)

• Nawab Sir NAWAZISH ALI KHAN K.C.I.E., 2nd Taluqdar of Nawabganj 1865/1890, born 1828 ^(#1), he served with Major G. Lawrence at Peshawar when the Sikh troops mutinied in 1848, K.C.I.E. [cr.1888], C.I.E., title of Nawab granted 21st May 1866 as a personal distinction, married and had issue. He died 1890.

  • Nawab Hidayat Ali Khan

• Nawab NASIR ALI KHAN, 3rd Nawab of Nawabganj 1890/1896, title of Nawab made hereditary in 1892; married and had issue. He died 19th November 1896.

  • Khan Bahadur Sardar Mohammad Ali Khan

• Haji Nawab Sir FATEH ALI KHAN K.C.I.E., 4th Nawab of Nawabganj 1896/1923, born 1862, nominated a member of the Punjab Legistlative Council in 1897, he was awarded the order of C.B.E. at the Delhi Darbar in 1902, additional member of the Governor General's Legislative Council 1904/-, during WWI he donated a large sum of money to aid the war effort, during the disturbances in the Punjab in 1919, he again rendered valuable assistance to the administration and at the time of the last Afghan War he was attached as liaison officer to the Kohat-Khurram Force, he started a school and an intermediate college at Lucknow and became their Honorary General Secretary, he served as President of the Punjab Chiefs Association, the Anjuman-e-Himayet-e-Islam in Lahore, the Punjab Muslim League and the Anjumane-Islamia in the Punjab; K.C.I.E. [cr.1921], married and had issue. He died of a kidney condition on 28th October 1923.

  • Nawab Nisar Ali Khan (qv)

  • Nawabzadi Aliya Sultan Qizilbash, married Khan Bahadur Baqir Ali Khan Qizilbash, General Manager (ret'd.) of North Western Railway, Pakistan. She died July 1982.

  • Nawabzada Muzaffar Ali Khan Qizilbash, born 1908, a minister in the governments of the Punjab, West Pakistan and Pakistan, served as Minister for Industries in 1957 (October to December), served as Minister for Industries, Commerce and Parliamentary Affairs 1957/1958, appointed Chief Minister of West Pakistan in 1958 (March to October), later served as Finance Minister 1969/1971. He died September 1982.

  • Nawabzada Zulfiqar Ali Khan Qizilbash, born 1910, married Nawabzadi Taj-ul-nissa, sister of the Nawab of Cambay.

  • Nawabzada Talib Ali Khan Qizilbash, born 1913.

  • Nawabzadi Safia Sultan Qizilbash, married January 1936, HH Najum-ud-Daulah Mumtaz-ul-Mulk Momin Khan Bahadur Dilawar Jung Nawab Mirza Husain Yawar Khan II Bahadur, the Nawab of Cambay.

• Nawab NISAR ALI KHAN QIZILBASH, 5th Nawab of Nawabganj 1923/1944, born 1901, Nawab [cr.1937]. He died 1944.

• Nawab RAZA ALI KHAN QIZILBASH, 6th Nawab of Nawabganj (see above)