Everything on Nawabi States

Historical Periods & Dynasties

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• The Viceroy Who Never Went Back: Hyderabad under the Nizams, 1724–1948 — essay · Hyderabad Nizams · 20 sources
  A Mughal governor stopped reporting to Delhi and a state lasted two hundred and twenty-four years. At its end it was the largest and richest principality in India, with its own coinage, railway, airline and university — and an administration in which the majority of its people held almost none of the senior posts. Both of those sentences are documented from the state's own records. This essay sets out the spine of the story; the archive examines its most disputed limbs separately, on eight claim pages, and does not soften what they found.

• Qudsia Begum — Person · Regent of Bhopal, 1819 – 1837 · Bhopal Begums
  Widow of a nawab shot dead by a child, named Regent for her infant daughter in 1819, and the first of the four women who governed Bhopal for a century — removed in 1837 by an arrangement that gave her an estate and gave her son-in-law the throne.
• Sikandar Begum — Person · Regent from 1847; proclaimed Ruler c. 1860; d. 1868 · Bhopal Begums
  Regent of Bhopal from 1847 and its proclaimed Ruler from 1859/60, Sikandar Begum was the only child of Nawab Nazar Mahomed and Qudsia Begum; her own daughter Shah Jahan Begum stood aside from the throne in her favour before eventually succeeding her.
• Shah Jahan Begum — Person · r. 1868 – 1901 · Bhopal Begums
  The only child of Sikandar Begum, Shah Jahan Begum was recognized as heir in infancy, briefly waived her claim to her mother in 1859, and was installed as Ruler of Bhopal in November 1868, reigning for thirty-three years until her death on 16 June 1901.
• Sultan Jahan Begum — Person · r. 1901 – 1926 · Bhopal Begums
  The only surviving child of Shah Jahan Begum, Sultan Jahan Begum succeeded on her mother's death on 16 June 1901 and was formally installed at a durbar at the Sadar Manzil palace on 4 July 1901; her own account of the accession, and of her mother's death, survives in her memoir An Account of My Life.
• Awadh — the Nawab-Viziers and Kings of Oudh — Dynasty · 1722 – 1856 · Awadh Nawabs
  From Sa'adat Khan Burhan al-Mulk's appointment, 1134/1722, to the British annexation and Wajid Ali's deposition, 1272/1856, per Bosworth's table and closing prose.
• Hyderabad — the Nizams (Asaf Jahis) — Dynasty · 1724 – 1948 · Hyderabad Nizams
  Dates mark Chin Qilich Khan's de facto independence as Mughal governor of the Deccan, taking the title Asaf Jah (1137/1724), to the state's forced integration into the Indian Union in 1948.
• Sayyid Muhammad Amin Sa'adat Khan Bahadur, Burhan al-Mulk — Person · r. 1722 – 1739 · Awadh Nawabs
  Assumed virtual independence in Awadh as the Mughal empire declined after Awrangzib's death in 1118/1707, founding the line as Nawab-Vizier.
• Abu Mansur Khan, Safdar Jang — Person · r. 1739 – 1754 · Awadh Nawabs
  Succeeded as Nawab-Vizier of Awadh in 1152/1739, styled Safdar Jang.
• Haydar, Shuja al-Dawla Jalal al-Din — Person · r. 1754 – 1775 · Awadh Nawabs
  Son of Safdar Jang; ruled as Nawab-Vizier with the title Shuja al-Dawla Jalal al-Din from 1167/1754.
• Asaf al-Dawla — Person · r. 1775 – 1797 · Awadh Nawabs
  Son of Haydar (Shuja al-Dawla); ruled as Nawab-Vizier of Awadh from 1189/1775.
• Wazir Ali — Person · r. 1797 – 1798 · Awadh Nawabs
  Adopted son of Asaf al-Dawla; ruled briefly from 1212/1797 to 1213/1798 and died in 1232/1817.
• Sa'adat Ali Khan — Person · r. 1798 – 1814 · Awadh Nawabs
  Son of Asaf al-Dawla, per Bosworth's table; ruled as Nawab-Vizier of Awadh from 1213/1798.
• Haydar I, Ghazi al-Din — Person · r. 1814 – 1827 · Awadh Nawabs
  Son of Sa'adat Ali Khan; ruled as Nawab-Vizier from 1229/1814 and took the title of King after 1234/1819.
• Haydar II, Sulayman Jah — Person · r. 1827 – 1837 · Awadh Nawabs
  Son of Ghazi al-Din Haydar; ruled as King of Awadh, styled Sulayman Jah, from 1243/1827.
• Muhammad Ali, Mu'in al-Din — Person · r. 1837 – 1842 · Awadh Nawabs
  Son of Sa'adat Ali Khan, styled Mu'in al-Din; ruled as King of Awadh from 1253/1837.
• Amjad Ali, Thurayya Jah — Person · r. 1842 – 1847 · Awadh Nawabs
  Son of Muhammad Ali, styled Thurayya Jah; ruled as King of Awadh from 1258/1842.
• Wajid Ali Shah — Person · r. 1847 – 1856 (deposed) · Awadh Nawabs
  Son of Amjad Ali; ruled as King of Awadh from 1263/1847 until deposed by Governor-General Lord Dalhousie on grounds of misgovernment in 1272/1856, ending the kingdom of Oudh.
• Chin Qilich Khan, Qamar al-Din Nizam al-Mulk (Asaf Jah I) — Person · r. 1720 – 1748 · Hyderabad Nizams
  Mughal governor of the Deccan who became independent at Hyderabad and received the title Asaf Jah.
• Nasir Jang — Person · r. 1748 – 1751 · Hyderabad Nizams
  Son of Nizam al-Mulk who succeeded him as ruler of Hyderabad in 1748.
• Muzaffar Jang — Person · r. 1751 – 1752 · Hyderabad Nizams
  Son-in-law of Nizam al-Mulk, named in Bosworth's table as his successor in 1751.
• Salabat Jang — Person · r. 1752 – 1762 · Hyderabad Nizams
  Son of Nizam al-Mulk who ruled Hyderabad from 1752.
• Nizam Ali Khan — Person · r. 1762 – 1803 · Hyderabad Nizams
  Son of Nizam al-Mulk who ruled Hyderabad from 1762.
• Sikandar Jah — Person · r. 1803 – 1829 · Hyderabad Nizams
  Son of Nizam Ali Khan who succeeded him in 1803.
• Farkhanda Ali Khan, Nasir al-Dawla — Person · r. 1829 – 1857 · Hyderabad Nizams
  Son of Sikandar Jah, styled Nasir al-Dawla, who ruled Hyderabad from 1829.
• Mir Mahbub Ali I, Afdal al-Dawla — Person · r. 1857 – 1869 · Hyderabad Nizams
  Son of Farkhanda Ali Khan, styled Afdal al-Dawla, who ruled Hyderabad from 1857.
• Mir Mahbub Ali II — Person · r. 1869 – 1911 · Hyderabad Nizams
  Son of Mahbub Ali I who acceded in 1869 and ruled under the regency of Salar Jang until 1884.
• Mir Uthman Ali Khan Bahadur, Fath Jang — Person · r. 1911 – 1948 · Hyderabad Nizams
  Son of Mahbub Ali II, the last Nizam of Hyderabad; the state was forcibly integrated into the Indian Union in 1948.