PRESENT RULER: HH Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib IQBAL MUHAMMED KHAN Bahadur Zubdat-ul-mulk, 30th Nawab of Palanpur (1957/-) (Shahibagh, Zorawar Palace, Palanpur, Gujarat, India)

born 8th June 1917, Member of the Rajya Sabha 1960/1964, married HH Maqbul Jehan Begum of Dasada, and has issue, 2 sons and 1 daughter.

• Nawabzada Sahib Muzaffar Muhammed Khan Lohani [Wali Ahmad Khan], born 1941, married a Swiss lady, and has issue.

  • Sahibzada Zahir Khan Palanpur, married Adriana Palanpur, and has issue.

    • Zain Khan Palanpur

    • Riyan Andres Khan Palanpur, born 8th December 2004.

  • Sahibzadi Sarvath Khan Palanpur

• Sahibzada Yusuf Khan

• Sahibzadi Rafat Begum Sahiba, married and has issue, two sons.

  • Zahid Hai

  • Imran Hai

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Founder of the House was Malek Khurram Khan, who captured Jhalor in the 14th century. The 12th ruler of the house, Ghazni Khan, received Dantiwada, Dessa and Palanpur in 1597. The capital was established at Rampur at the end of the 17th century. Rulers were...

1. Malek KHURRAM KHAN fl.1370, married and had issue.

   • Malek YUSUF KHAN (qv)

2. Malek YUSUF KHAN -/1395, married and had issue.

   • Malek HASAN KHAN (qv)

3. Malek HASAN KHAN 1395/1440, married and had issue.

   • Malek SALAR KHAN (qv)

   • Malek USMAN KHAN (qv)

   • Hitam Khan, married and had issue.

     • Pahad Khan

     • Khurram Khan

     • Malek GHAZNI KHAN I (qv)

     • Mir Khan

     • Malek MALEK KHAN (qv)

4. Malek SALAR KHAN 1440/1461, married and had issue.

   • Malek SUBBAN KHAN Zubdat-ul-mulk (qv)

5. Malek USMAN KHAN 1461/1483, 5th ruler, was granted the hereditary title of Zubdat-ul-Mulk by the Sultan of Gujarat.

6. Malek SUBBAN KHAN Zubdat-ul-mulk 1483/1505, married and had issue.

   • Malek MUJAHID KHAN I Zubdat-ul-mulk (qv)

   • Malek ALI SHER KHAN Zubdat-ul-mulk (qv)

7. Malek MUJAHID KHAN I Zubdat-ul-mulk [Munjha Malek] 1505/1509, died 1509.

8. Malek ALI SHER KHAN Zubdat-ul-mulk 1509/1525, married and had issue.

   • Malek SIKANDAR KHAN Zubdat-ul-mulk (qv)

9. Malek SIKANDAR KHAN Zubdat-ul-mulk 1525/1548, died 1548.

10. Malek GHAZNI KHAN I Zubdat-ul-mulk 1548/1550

11. Malek KHANJI Zubdat-ul-mulk 1550/1576, married and had issue. He died 1576.

    • Diwan GHAZNI KHAN II Zubdat-ul-mulk (qv)

    • Diwan FIRUZ KHAN Zubdat-ul-mulk (qv)

12. Malek GHAZNI KHAN II Zubdat-ul-mulk 1576/1614, 12th ruler, received the hereditary titles of Diwan, Mahakhan and Nawab by the mughal Emperor Akbar, appointed Governor of Lahore, raised to the command of 500 infantry and 400 horse, married Banu Begam, the foster sister of the Emperor, receiving Palanpur, Deesa, Dantiwada as a dowry, he married and had issue.

13. Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib PAHAD KHAN I Zubdat-ul-mulk (son) 1614/-

14. Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib FIRUZ KHAN Zubdat-ul-mulk [Kamal Khan] -/1674, married and had issue.

    • Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib MUJAHID KHAN I Zubdat-ul-mulk (qv)

    • Nawabzada Salim Khan, married and had issue.

      • Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib FATEH KHAN I Zubdat-ul-mulk (qv)

      • Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib KAMAL KHAN Zubdat-ul-mulk (qv)

15. Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib MUJAHID KHAN II Zubdat-ul-mulk 1674/1682

16. Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib KAMAL KHAN Zubdat-ul-mulk [Karan Kamal] 1688/1704, married and had issue.

    • Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib FIRUZ KHAN II Zubdat-ul-mulk (qv)

17. Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib FATEH KHAN I Zubdat-ul-mulk 1682/1688, married and had issue.

    • Nawabzada Pir Khan, married and had issue.

      • Sahibzada Fateh Khan, married and had issue.

        • Sahibzada Taj Khan

        • Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib FIRUZ KHAN III Zubdat-ul-mulk (qv)

        • Sahibzada Muhammed Khan

18. Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib FIRUZ KHAN II Zubdat-ul-mulk 1704/1721, married and had issue.

    • Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib KARIM DAD KHAN Zubdat-ul-mulk (qv)

    • Nawabzada Fateh Khan

    • Nawabzada Himat Khan

    • Nawabzada Usman Khan, married and had issue.

      • Sahibzada Mujahid Khan, married and had issue.

        • Sahibzada Usman Khan, married and had issue.

          • Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib SHAMSHER KHAN Zubdat-ul-mulk (qv)

      • Sahibzada Ghazni Khan, married and had issue.

        • Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib SALIM KHAN Zubdat-ul-mulk (qv)

    • Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib BAHADUR KHAN Zubdat-ul-mulk (qv)

19. Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib KARIM DAD KHAN Zubdat-ul-mulk 1721/1733, married and had issue.

    • Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib PAHAD KHAN II Zubdat-ul-mulk (qv)

20. Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib PAHAD KHAN II Zubdat-ul-mulk 1733/1743, married and had issue.

    • Nawabzada Karim Dad Khan

21. Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib BAHADUR KHAN Zubdat-ul-mulk 1743/1768

22. Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib SALIM KHAN Zubdat-ul-mulk 1768/1781, married and had issue.

    • Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib SHER KHAN Zubdat-ul-mulk (qv)

    • Nawabzada Bayazid Khan

    • Nawabzadi Sher Bibi, married and had issue.

      • Diwan MUBARIZ KHAN (qv)

23. Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib SHER KHAN Zubdat-ul-mulk 1781/1788, died spm 1788.

Diwan MUBARIZ KHAN 1788/1790, raised to the throne by his mother, but was deposed by the nobles.

24. Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib SHAMSHER KHAN Zubdat-ul-mulk 1790/1794 and 1812/1813 (deposed)

25. Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib FIRUZ KHAN III Zubdat-ul-mulk 1794/1812, married and had issue. He died 1812.

    • Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib FATEH KHAN II Zubdat-ul-mulk (qv)

26. Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib FATEH KHAN II Zubdat-ul-mulk 1813/1854, born about 1798, succeeded to the throne on 22nd December 1813, married and had issue. He died 1854.

    • Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib Mahakhan Nawab Sahib ZORAWAR KHAN Zubdat-ul-mulk (qv)

    • Nawabzada Ahmad Khan

    • Nawabzada Usman Khan, married and had issue.

      • Sahibzada Husain Muhammed Khan, married and had issue.

        • Sahibzada Zarbadast Khan Husam-ul-mulk, married Noor Bakhte Begum of Junagadh, and had issue.

          • Sahibzada Muhammed Usman Khan

          • Begum Farhat Sultana, married HH Nawab Babi Shri MUHAMMED SALABAT KHANJI II Sahib Bahadur of Balasinor.

    • Nawabzada Sikandar Khan

27. Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib Mahakhan Nawab Sahib ZORAWAR KHAN Zubdat-ul-mulk 1854/1877. He died 1877.

28. HH Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib Sir SHER MUHAMMED KHAN Zubdat ul-Mulk (son) 1877/1918, born 2nd January 1852, Nawab Sahib (Hereditary) [cr.1910], G.C.I.E. [cr.1898], K.C.I.E. [cr.1893], personal salute raised from 11 to 13 guns, married and had issue. He died November 1918.

    • Nawabzada Fateh Khan

    • Lt. Col. HH Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib Sir TALEY MUHAMMED KHAN Bahadur Zubdat-ul-Mulk (qv)

    • Nawabzada Yawar Husain Khan Amir-ul-Mulk, married and had issue.

      • Sahibzada Ata Muhammed Khan, married and had issue.

        • Sahibzada Sher Muhammed Khan, married Sylvia.

        • Sahibzadi Shahnoor Begum [Princess Dimple], born 1942, married 1969, Yuvraj Maharajkumar Shri Sodhsalji Mayurdhwajsinhji Jhala [Shatrujit Dev Sahib] of Dhrangadhra, and had issue. She died 1983.

29. Lt. Col. HH Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib Sir TALEY MUHAMMED KHAN Bahadur Zubdat-ul-Mulk 1918/1957, born 7th July 1883, joined the Imperial Cadet Corps in 1903, Member of the Standing Committee of Indian Princes' Chamber 1920/1921, Member of the Indian Delegation to the 9th Assembly of the League of Nations in 1928, K.C.V.O. [cr.1922], K.C.I.E. [cr.1920], G.C.I.E. [cr.1.1.1932], ADC to HRH the Prince of Wales in 1936, married 1stly, 20th January 1906, daughter of Malek Shri Rustam Khanji of Dasada, died 1954, married 2ndly, HH Begum Jahanara [née Joan Falkiner], born in Melbourne, Australia, daughter of Leigh Falkiner, and had issue. He died 20th May 1957.

    • HH Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib IQBAL MUHAMMED KHAN Bahadur Zubdat-ul-mulk (qv)

    • Nawabzada Sahib Yusuf Muhammad Khan Lohani

    • Nawabzadi Shameem Begum Sahiba (by HH Begum Jahanara), born 1943. (Noosa, Q.L.D., Australia)

30. HH Diwan Mahakhan Nawab Sahib IQBAL MUHAMMED KHAN Bahadur Zubdat-ul-mulk (see above)