PRESENT RULER:

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: This Fifth Class State is a Jurisdictional Taluka and includes the Bhayati Estate of Pajod (qv), it also has a share in Bantwa Bara Majmu Taluka. The territory borders on the North of Gondal's largest block of territory, and is otherwise enclosed within Junagadh. Following the partition of the taluka of Bantva into Manavadar and Bantva in 1760, Sher Zaman Khan Babi received Bantva. Upon his death, his two sons partitioned it again in equal shares, Mukhtiar Khan received Gidad (now known as Sardargarh). This share was further partitioned into Sultanpur (formerly Khambala) and Pajod, both of which are subordinate to Sardargarh. Rulers were...

• Khan Shri MUKHTYARKHANJI SHERJAMAKHANJI, 1st Khan Sahib of Gidad 1779/1813, son of Khan Shri Sherzamankhanji of Bantva, itself an off-shoot of Junagadh, married and had issue. He died 1813.

  • Khanzada Shri Salabatkhanji Mukhtiarkhanji, married and had issue. He died before 1813.

    • Khanzada Shri Anwarkhanji Salabatkhanji, died young.

    • Khan Shri Nathukhanji Salabatkhanji (qv)

    • Khanzada Shri Sujayatkhanji Salabatkhanji, he was granted the jagir of Pajod in about 1820, as his share of his father's estate, he married and had issue (see Pajod).

• Khan Shri NATHUKHANJI SALABATKHANJI, 2nd Khan Sahib of Gidad 1813/1867, married and had issue, three sons. He died 1867.

  • Khan Shri Samatkhanji Nathukhanji (qv)

  • Khanzada Husain Yarkhanji Nathukhanji, he was granted the estate of Sultanpur as his share of his father's estate (see below).

  • Khan Shri Anwarkhanji Nathukhanji, he succeeded his brother after he was deposed in 1880 (see below)

REGENCY 1867/1879

• Khan Shri SAMATKHANJI NATHUKHANJI, 3rd Khan Sahib of Sardargadh 1867/1903, born 1858 or 1854 ^(#1), married and had issue, an only son. He died 1903.

  • Khan Shri Husain Yawarkhanji Samatkhanji (qv)

• Khan Shri HUSAIN YAWARKHANJI SAMATKHANJI, 4th Khan Sahib of Sardargadh 1903/1933 (deposed), born 14th July 1880, he succeeded to the gadi on 6th March 1903; in 1933, after a lenghthy trial for criminal misconduct related, amoung other things, to a dispute involving ownership of the village of Pajod, subordinate to Sardargarh, the Khan of Sardargarh was deposed and banished to Bombay, he later abdicated in 1940; married Begum Amir Bhakte, and had issue. He died in Rajkot.

  • Khan Shri Ghulam Moinuddinkhanji Husainyawarkhanji (qv)

  • Khanzada Shri Abdul Hamid Khanji Husainyawarkhanji, married and has issue, four children. (Rajkot, India)

    • Kumari Kousarjanha Begam

    • Kumari Sayrajanha Begam

    • Khanzada Shri Ezazkhanji Abdul Hamid Khanji

    • Khanzada Sarfrazkhanji Abdul Hamid Khanji

  • Khanzada Shri Abdul Majeed Khanji Husainyawarkhanji, married and has issue, six children. (Rajkot, India)

    • Khanzada Shri Amiruddinkhanji Abdul Majeed Khanji

    • Khanzada Shri Ayubkhanji Abdul Majeed Khanji

    • Khanzada Shri Jahangirkhanji Abdul Majeed Khanji

    • Khanzada Shri Sherkhanji Abdul Majeed Khanji

  • Khanzada Shri Nisarahmad Khanji Husainyawarkhanji, unmarried. (Rajkot, India)

REGENCY [19.1.1934] - [1940]

• Khan Shri GHULAM MOINUDDINKHANJI HUSAINYAWARKHANJI, 5th Khan Sahib of Sardargadh 1934/1947, born 11th June 1919, he succeeded on 19th January 1934 and settled in Pakistan after the partition of India; married on 11th November 1945, Nawabzadi Bima Shri Inayat Bakhte Sahiba, died 1959, third daughter of Nawab Sir Muhammad Mahabat Khan II of Junagadh.

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: This estate was formerly known as Khambala and is a Non-Jurisdictional Taluka under Sardargadh. Estate holdres were....

• Khan Shri Husain Yarkhanji Nathukhanji, 1st Khan Sahib of Sultanpur 1867/1880 (deposed)

• Khan Shri Anwarkhanji Nathukhanji, 2nd Khan Sahib of Sultanpur 1880/-, married and had issue.

  • Khan Shri Sardar Muhammedkhanji Anwarkhanji (qv)

• Khan Shri Sardar Muhammedkhanji Anwarkhanji, 3rd Khan Sahib of Sultanpur, married and had issue.

  • Khan Shri Jabbarjastkhanji Sardar Muhammedkhanji (qv)

• Khan Shri Jabbarjastkhanji Sardar Muhammedkhanji, 4th and last Khan Sahib of Sultanpur -/1947, married and had issue.

  • Khanzada Shri (name unknown) Jabbarjastkhanji, fled to Pakistan upon Independence.

  • Khanzada Shri Sardar Sardar Muhammedkhanji Jabbarjastkhanji

  • Khanzada Shri Anwarkhanji Jabbarjastkhanji

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