PRESENT RULER: Nawab ABDUL MAJID KHAN Diler Jang Bahadur, Nawab of Savanur since February 1993.

born 4th March 1963, Master of Business Administration, Bachelor of Business Administration, Bachelor of Commerce, married 25th December 1994 in Balasinor, Gujarat, Begum Anjum Sultana of Balasinor, and has issue.

• Nawabzadi Khaleequnnissa Jehan Begum

• Nawabzadi Nasiha Jehan Begum

PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Founded in 1672 when the jagir of Sarkar Bankapur was granted to Sardar Abdu'l Karim Khan, a pathan of the Miyana tribe. Rulers were.....

• Nawab ABDU'L KARIM KHAN 1672/1686, a sardar in the service of the Sultans of Bijaipur, was granted the jagir of Sarkar Bankapur in 1672, which formed the nucleus of Savanur State, Wazir of Bijaipur 1675/1677, later also granted the jagir of Miraj, married (amongst others), a daughter of Nawab Masaud Khan, Chief of Adwani, and had issue.

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Nabi Khan (eldest), ancestor of the Nawabs of Kadapa in Madras.

  • Nawabzada Mahmad Ikhlas Khan

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Aziz Khan

  • Nawab ABDU'L RAUF KHAN (qv)

• Nawab ABDU'L RAUF KHAN Diler Jang Bahadur 1686/1720, confirmed in the jagir of Sarkar Bankapur in 1686, Diler Khan Bahadur Diler Jang[cr.1686], granted a Mansab of 7000 zat and 6,000 sawar on 13th September 1686, married a daughter of Ali Adil Shah of Bijaipur and had issue, 12 sons. He died 12th June 1720.

  • Nawab ABDU'L FATAH KHAN Diler Jang Bahadur (qv)

  • Nawab ABDU'L MUHAMMED KHAN Diler Jang Bahadur (qv)

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Rasul Khan

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Karim Khan

  • Nawab ABDU'L GHAFFAR KHAN Diler Jang Bahadur (qv)

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Sattar Khan, Regent of Savanur 1726/1730, died 1730.

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Qasim Khan

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Ruzzaq Khan

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Mukim Khan

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Mahmud Khan

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Kasim Khan

• Nawab ABDU'L FATAH KHAN Diler Jang Bahadur 1720 (June to September), died sp September 1720.

• Nawab ABDU'L MUHAMMED KHAN Diler Jang Bahadur 1720/1721, died sp March 1721.

• Nawab ABDU'L GHAFFAR KHAN Diler Jang Bahadur 1721/1726, married and had issue. He died 27th March 1726.

  • Nawab ABDU'L MAJID KHAN Diler Jang Bahadur (qv)

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Kasim Khan

• Nawab ABDU'L MAJID KHAN Diler Jang Bahadur 1726/1754, installed on the gaddi 19th October 1730, married and had issue, 9 sons. He died 1754

  • Nawab ABDU'L HAKIM KHAN Diler Jang Bahadur (qv)

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Khalim Khan

  • Nawabzada Rasul Khan

  • Nawabzada Nabi Khan

  • Nawabzada Kasim Khan

  • Nawabzada Gannu Khan

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Karim Khan

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Samad Khan

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Ruzzaq Khan

• Nawab ABDU'L HAKIM KHAN Diler Jang Bahadur 1754/1794, installed 5th November 1754, married and had issue, 22 sons. He died 20th February 1794, buried at Khadarbag in Savanur.

  • Nawab ABDU'L KHAYR KHAN Diler Jang Bahadur (by Sumkhanduma Saheb) (qv)

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Samad Khan

  • Nawab ABDU'L HUSSAIN KHAN Diler Jang Bahadur (qv)

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Rahim Khan

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Jawar Khan

  • Nawabzada Hafiz Khan

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Rashid Khan

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Kasim Khan

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Latif Khan

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Halik Khan

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Mohsin Khan

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Firuz Khan

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Ahmad Khan

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Mahmud Khan

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Majid Khan

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Kudus Khan

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Chhemli Khan

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Shekas Khan

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Karim Khan

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Diler Khan

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Kham Khan

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Fatah Khan

  • Nawabzadi Nawaz Begum, married 1779, Abdul Karim of Mysore.

• Nawab ABDU'L HUSSAIN KHAN Diler Jang Bahadur 1794 (9 months), married and had issue. He died 1794.

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Rahim Khan

• Nawab ABDU'L KHAYR KHAN Diler Jang Bahadur 1794/1827, installed 18th December 1794, married (amongst others), 1779, Sultan Begum, daughter of Haidar Ali of Mysore, and had issue, 7 sons. He died 2nd November 1827.

  • Nawab ABDU'L FAYAZ KHAN Diler Jang Bahadur (qv)

  • Nawab ABDU'L MUNAWWAR KHAN Diler Jang Bahadur (qv)

  • Nawab ABDU'L DILER KHAN Diler Jang Bahadur (qv)

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Namwar Khan, died young.

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Mubariz Khan (by Rajibi Saheb), married the daughter of Shamas Khan Khanjada.

  • Nawabzada Hyder Hussain Khan (by Sultan Begum)

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Manawar Khan, married the daughter of Chhamu Khan Khanjada.

  • ?Nawabzada Dula Khan (by Rajibi Saheb)

• Nawab ABDU'L FAYAZ KHAN Diler Jang Bahadur 1827/1828 (2 months and 10 days), married 1825 , the daughter of Ruknuddin Hussain Khan Bahadur, and had issue. He died spm .

• Nawab ABDU'L MUNAWWAR KHAN Diler Jang Bahadur 1828/1834, born 1805, married the daughter of Sahibzada Hussain Miya Khanjada, and had issue. He died about June 1834.

  • Daughter, born (posthumously) 16th December 1834.

• Nawab ABDU'L DILER KHAN Diler Jang Bahadur 1834/1862, installed 11th March 1828, MLC (Bombay), married (amongst others), 1824 the daughter of Syed Ahmad walad Syed Mahmud Shah Kumdan, and had issue, 6 sons and 5 daughters. He died 1862.

  • Nawab ABDU'L KHAYR KHAN II Diler Jang Bahadur (qv)

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Qasim Khan, born c1823, married the daughter of Hasan Miya Khanjada of Basavanakoppa, and had issue.

    • Nawab ABDU'L TABRIZ KHAN Diler Jang Bahadur (qv)

  • Nawabzada Muzaffar Khan, born c1825.

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Majid Khan, born c1827, married 1848, the daughter of Daud Khan Saheb.

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Hakim Khan, born c1829, married 1848, the daughter of Mahmad Daulat Khan Saheb.

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Karim Khan, born c1834, married 1848, the daughter of Hayat Khan Saheb.

• Nawab ABDU'L KHAYR KHAN II Diler Jang Bahadur 1862/1868, born c1822, married 1841, the daughter of Mahmad Ghous Khan, Dewan of Savanur, and had issue. He died 1868.

  • Nawab ABDU'L DILER KHAN II Diler Jang Bahadur (qv)

• Nawab ABDU'L DILER KHAN II Diler Jang Bahadur 1868/1884, born 1862, installed 10th February 1869, died sp 1884.

• Nawab ABDU'L TABRIZ KHAN Diler Jang Bahadur 1885/1892, born 1864 ^(#1), married and had issue, 1 son and 3 daughters. He died 26th July 1892 at Dharwad.

• Maj. Meherban Nawab ABDU'L MAJID KHAN II Diler Jang Bahadur 1893/- , born 2th October 1890 and succeeded 30th January 1893, installed 12th November 1912, educated at Dharwad till 1900, Rajkumar College, Rajkot till 1908, Mayo College, Ajmer and M.A.O. College, Aligarh as well as three years with the Imperial Cadet Corps at Dehra Dun 1909/1912, married September 1912, Khaliqunnissa Begum, daughter of Nawab Afsar-ul-Mulk, and had issue, 2? sons and 3 daughters.

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Hamid Khan, born 6th March 1919.

  • Nawab ABDU'L RASHID KHAN Diler Jang Bahadur (qv)

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Sayeed Khan

  • Nawabzada Abdu'l Wahid Khan

  • Nawabzadi Shahnu Jahan Begum, married Maj. Nawabzada Syed-uj-Jafar Khan Fakr-ul-Mulk of Bhopal, and had issue.

    • Sahibzadi Enver Zia Sultana, married 1960, Shri Mahendra Mathur, son of Amarnath Mathur, a Zamindar of North India, and has issue.

      • Varun Mathur

      • Ira Mathur Mohammed

      • Rashimi Mathur Fairfield

  • Nawabzadi Hasin Pasha Begum, married Sahibzada Imtiaz Khan of Sachin, and had issue. She died 13th June 2005.

  • Nawabzadi Nayim Pasha Begum

• Nawab ABDU'L RASHID KHAN Diler Jang Bahadur -/1993, born 1925/1926, married Safinaz Begum, and had issue. He died February 1993

  • Nawab ABDUL MAJID KHAN Diler Jang Bahadur (qv)

  • Yaseen Sultan Jehan Saheba, born 27th March 1968 in Hyderabad, married 28th December 1987,

• Nawab ABDUL MAJID KHAN Diler Jang Bahadur (see above)