PRESENT RULER: Nawab ALI HAMID KHAN, Head of the Zamindari family of Prithimpassa since 1995. (Muraicherra Tea Estate, P.O. Prithimpassa Dist.- Moulvibazar, Bangladesh)

born 26th September 1956 in Patna, India, married and has issue.

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The estate was founded in 1499 by Sakhi Salamat, a Persian nobleman, who, with his family settled in the area, and were made Governors of Orissa by Suleiman Shah and Daud Shah in 1573. Estate holders were....

• Sakhi SALAMAT, 1st Zamindar of Prithimpassa 1499/-, married and had issue.

  • Nawab Ismail Khan Lodhi (qv)

• Nawab ISMAIL KHAN LODHI, 2nd Zamindar of Prithimpassa, he was granted the titles of Khan-e-Jahan Khan and Amir-ul-Amara, and also received a Jagir from the Mughal Emperor, Padshah Akbar; Governor of Orissa (confirmed in 1573); married and had issue.

  • Nawab Shamsuddin Muhammad (qv)

• Nawab SHAMSUDDIN MUHAMMAD, 3rd Zamindar of Prithimpassa 1624/1682, married and had issue. He died in 1682.

  • Nawab Muhammad Rabi Khan (qv)

• Nawab MUHAMMAD RABI KHAN, 4th Zamindar of Prithimpassa 1682/-, he was tutor of the children of Nawab Nazim Sarfraz Khan of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, and was granted a sanad for jagirs from him and Nazim Mir Muhammed Qasim Ali Khan Bahadur Nasirat Jang, and also from the Mughal Emperor, Padshah Alamgir II; he also was granted the title of Danishmandi from the Nazim of Bengal; the area of Moulvi Bazar in present day Sylhet district in Bangladesh is named after him (then known as Rabir Bazar); married and had issue.

  • Nawab Muhammad Ali Khan (qv)

• Nawab MUHAMMAD ALI KHAN, 5th Zamindar of Prithimpassa, he served as the Assistant Qazi of Sylhet in 1773 and then Qazi of Taraf; he crushed the rebellion of Naga and Koki tribes for which he was awarded further Jagirs (which were made hereditary in 1819) and honors from the British Government; married and had issue.

  • Nawab Gaus Ali Khan (qv)

• Nawab GAUS ALI KHAN, 6th Zamindar of Prithimpassa, he sided with the Mutineers during the First Indian War of Independence (Sepoy Mutiny of 1857) and sheltered 300 sepoys who had looted the Chittagong Treasury; married and had issue.

  • Nawab Moulvi Ali Ahmed Khan (qv)

• Nawab MOULVI ALI AHMED KHAN, 7th Zamindar of Prithimpassa -/1874, born 1840; he assisted the British Forces in the Battle of Loshai in 1869; married and had issue. He died 1874

  • Nawab Moulvi Ali Amjed Khan (qv)

  • Nawabzadi Latifa Banu

• Nawab MOULVI ALI AMJED KHAN, 8th Zamindar of Prithimpassa 1874/1905, born in November 1871, he established the Rungicherra Tea Estate and the Ali Amjad Girls' High School, Member of the Aligarh University Committee, he was recognized as an Honorary Magistrate by the British, married and had issue. He died in November 1905.

  • Nawab Ali Haider Khan (qv)

  • Nawab Ali Asghar Khan (qv)

• Nawab ALI HAIDER KHAN, 9th Zamindar of Prithimpassa 1905/1963, born in February 1900, he established the library of Prithimpassa Estate in 1921; he served as Minister of Agriculture in the cabinet of Sir Syed Muhammad Sadullah, Minister of Power and Water Development in the Bardalai's cabinet 1942/1946, and leader of the Independent Muslim Party; in 1945, he led his party into an alliance with Assam Congress and its coalition partners; after partition he continued in politics as leader of the Muslim League and contested elections; married Nawabzadi Syeda Husne Ara Begum, daughter of Ihtishamul-Mulk Raisuddaula Amir-ul-Omrah Nawab Asif Quadar Sir Syed Wasif Ali Mirza Khan Bahadur Mahabat Jang of Murshidabad, and had issue. He died 30th June 1963.

  • Nawabzada Ali Safdar Khan Raja Saheb, born 1917, he was a leader in Ballisara peasant movement of the 1960's, and in 1971, he led the liberation war as commander of his regiment from the Tripura borders. He died 16th July 1974 at Dhaka.

  • Sahebzadi Sayed-un-nessa Begum, born 1923 in Calcutta, married 1stly, Prince Wahid Ali Mirza of Oudh, married 2ndly, Syed Amanat Hossain, a Barah Syed, and superintendent of Special Police Department controlled by the Federal Government in Islamabad and in charge of East Pakistan, and had issue. She died 6th December 1999.

    • Sahebzada Asif Ali Mirza, great grandson of Shahzada Qamar Qadr and great greatson of Padshah Wajid Ali Shah, the ruler of the Royal House of Awadh.

  • Nawab Ali Sarwar Khan (qv)

  • Nawabzada Ali Dewar Khan

• Nawab ALI ASGHAR KHAN, 10th Zamindar of Prithimpassa 1963/1984, born 1903, he served as M.L.C. elected from the Muslim League, married a daughter of Ihtishamul-Mulk Raisuddaula Amir-ul-Omrah Nawab Asif Quadar Sir Syed Wasif Ali Mirza Khan Bahadur Mahabat Jang of Murshidabad, and had issue. He died in May 1984.

  • Nawabzada Ali Yeawar Khan, born 1925, he was elected as member of the Provincial Assembly from 1958 to 1968, died 2003.

• Nawab ALI SARWAR KHAN, 11th Zamindar of Prithimpassa 1984/1995, born 15th May 1924 at Sylhet House in Calcutta, he was elected as member of the Provincial Assembly, which later became the Constituent Assembly following the independence of Bangladesh, on 9th December 1970, he contested the election again in 1973 and was elected Member of Parliament in a landslide victory, married and had issue. He died 21st July 1995 in Dhaka.

  • Nawab Ali Hamid Khan (qv)

• Nawab Syed ALI HAMID KHAN, 12th Zamindar of Prithimpassa (see above)