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The result of the move request was: article moved. Dabomb87 (talk) 00:35, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Bhopal (state) → Bhopal State — Name format should be like that for Bombay State, Mysore State, Hyderabad State, etc. See also Category:Indian Princely States. --TopoChecker (talk) 17:33, 20 January 2011 (UTC)  comment by banned editor 
 * Support Straight forward.  Skinsmoke (talk) 10:59, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment - Just some examples
 * http://www.harappa.com/abida/abida1.html in text : Bhopal State
 * http://www.stampcommunity.org/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8513 stamps: BHOPAL STATE
 * Imperial Gazetteer of India http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/ put "bhopal state" in the search, all results show Bhopal State TopoChecker (talk) 18:17, 23 January 2011 (UTC)  comment by banned editor 
 * Support. Per nominator. The evidence is pretty clearly for that Bhopal State is used as a name is used as a name, and it is consistent with Wikipedia naming of similar subject.TheFreeloader (talk) 13:31, 3 February 2011 (UTC)


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How the rule of “regents” was established

 * Hayat Md Khan was nawab from 1777 to 1807.
 * He had two son, Ghaus Khan and Taj Md. Taj Md had no sons, only one daughter, Malika Bibi.
 * Ghaus Md Khan (b. 1767) became ruler in December 1807 when his father died.
 * In 1808, after losing a battle, Ghaus accepted Scindia as overlord. He also accepted a distant but agnatic cousin, Wazir-ud-dowlah, as regent.
 * Ghaus then retired to Raisen but remained nominal Nawab until his death in 1826
 * In March 1816, Regent Wazir-ud-Dowlah died. His son Nasiruddin (b. 1793) became the regent.
 * Note that the regents (father and son) belong to the same dynasty as the Nawab. They are distant but agnatic cousins.

How the regent family uses Qudsia Begum, so-called “first begum of Bhopal”

 * Nawab Ghaus Khan had eight sons and eight daughters. Qudsia Negum was his youngest daughter
 * In Feb 1818, Regent Nasiruddin (aged 25) married Qudsia Begum (aged 16)
 * In 1819, a daughter named Sikandar Begum was born to them
 * In Nov 1819, Regent Naseeruddin died in a "shooting accident." Actually he was assassinated.
 * At this point, Qudsia Begum (aged 19) was proclaimed as Regent (to her own father!!). Her father, the actual Nawab, is alive and well, living in retirement in Raisen.
 * Qudsia actually has no power, in fact she cannot step outside one portion of her own house. All power is in the hands of her husband’s brother, who may have had a hand in the murder of Regent Naseeruddin.

How regent family became royal family of Bhopal

 * In 1826, Qudsia's father died and her eldest brother Muiz Md Khan was installed as Nawab.
 * Qudsia continues as "Regent" for her elder brother. Qudsia and Muiz are the children of Ghaus Khan and they have the same mother, Zeenat Begum, who dies in 1827.
 * In April 1835, Qudsia’s only child, her daughter Sikandar Begum (aged 16) is married to her cousin Jehangir Md Khan (aged 19). Jehangir is the third son of Regent Naseeruddin’s only brother, Mian Amir, who controls Regent Qudsia.
 * Thus, Jehangir Md Khan is a grandson of the first regent (Wazir-ud-doulah) and nephew of the second regent (Naseeruddin, his own fatherin-law)
 * In Nov 1837, three events occur:
 * Qudsia "relinquishes" power to her son-in-law (who is also her husband's nephew)
 * The very next day, Nawab Muiz Md Khan (Qudsia’s brother) is deposed and permanently disinherited. He has two sons and a daughter. He dies in 1869.
 * Jehangir Md Khan is proclaimed Nawab of Bhopal. The throne is settled on him and his issue (by his wife! - whose mother is only a regent)

Beginning of the era of the Begums

 * Nawab Jehangir and his wife Sikandar Begum have only one daughter, Shah Jehan Begum
 * Nawab Jehangir Md Khan also has a bastard son by a dancing girl.
 * In December 1844, aged 28, Nawab Jehangir dies. There is turmoil in the state at this point
 * Upon Jehangir’s death in Dec 1844, his father (Mian Amir) and others try to put Jehangir’s bastard son, Mian Alamgir, on the throne. This is unsuccessful.
 * Jehangir's father (Mian Amir) seizes Kaliakheri fort and attempts to seize power in 1846. He is defeated and imprisoned in Asirgarh. He died 1854.
 * In April 1845, four months after the death of her father, Shah Jehan Begum (b. July 1838, aged seven years) is proclaimed ruler BY THE BRITISH.
 * At the same time, her mother Sikandar Begum is named Regent. The bastard son is put away.
 * Poor old Mian Amir is clearly disempowered and disgruntled. For many years, he was the real power in Bhopal and he had controlled his brother’s widow Qudsia. Now his own grand-daughter is on the throne, but he is out of power. He tries futile rebellion in 1846, is defeated and imprisoned. He spends the last eight years of his life in prison and dies in 1854.

Sikander Jehan and Shah Jehan

 * So by 1846, the BRITISH are firmly in control, the seven-year-old child Shah Jehan is the Nawab of Bhopal, and her mo4ther Sikandar Begum is the regent, taking all the advice and orders given by the British Resident Sahib.
 * In 1855, Nawab Shah Jehan Begum (aged 18) became the third wife of Baqi Md Khan (aged 33). Baqi Md Khan is NOT otherwise related to the Bhopal royals.
 * Baqi's first wife, Malika Bibi, was the only child of Nawab Ghaus' brother Taj Md Khan. Thus, Malika and granny Qudsia are first cousins, and Shah Jehan is married her grand-aunt’s husband.
 * In 1858 and 1860, two daughters were born to Shah Jehan and Baqi. The younger daughter died as a child and only one daughter, Kaikhusrau Jehan, survived.
 * The Regency was to end when Shah Jehan turned 21. However, in the run-up to this date, her mother Sikandar Begum petitioned the British to be made ruler herself.
 * The British emissary met the young Shah Jehan privately. She told him that she wished to abdicate of her own free will. The British Raj accepted.
 * In 1860, Sikandar Jehan replaced her daughter Shah Jehan as Nawab of Bhopal. Shah Jehan, until now the Nawab, was named heir-apparent.
 * This happened because Regent Sikandar demanded the throne for herself and the British complied. Various good reasons were given by her.
 * In 1867, Shah Jehan's first husband (Baqi Md) died.
 * In 1868, her mother Nawab Sikander Jehan died and Shah Jehan became Nawab
 * In 1871, Shah Jehan married a second time. She became the second wife of her second husband, Saddiq Hasan Khan.
 * At this time, Shah Jehan was already pregnant with Saddiq's child.
 * However, Shah Jehan had no surviving children by her second husband. Her only surviving child was her eldest daughter, Kaikhusrau, born 1858.

Kaikhusrau Jehan Begum, last female Nawab

 * In 1874, Kaikhusrau (aged 18) married Ahmed Ali Khan, an agnatic descendant of Dost Mohammed Khan.
 * It should be noted that Kaikhusrau's father was NOT an agnatic descendant of Dost Md Khan, who founded Bhopal. Her father, Baqi, belonged to some other family. However, her husband was a dynast of the founder.
 * Kaikhusrau and her husband had three sons. All the sons married and had children of their own.
 * Granny Qudsia Begum died only in December 1881, aged 80. She had certainly lived through history!

Messing with the succession

 * In 1901, Shah Jehan died and was succeeded by her daughter Kaikhusrau Jehan Begum as Nawab of Bhopial
 * In 1902, Kaikhusrau's husband died.
 * During the year 1924, Kaikhusrau lost two of her three sons. Her two elder boys died that year.
 * These boys had married two sisters, the daughters of their father's sister, Chanda Begum, famous mother of six or seven daughters.
 * The elder son had two sons, both in their 20s. The second son had three sons, the youngest born in Nov 1907 (thus aged 17)
 * All of these five boys, and their sisters, were disinherited in 1926 by their grandmother in 1926.
 * Kaikhusrau personally and dramatically prevailed on George V to name her third and only surviving son as her heir.
 * She said that this was as per islamic law (followed today in Saudi Arabia). Hamidullah Khan was duly accepted as heir apparent.
 * To confirm the matter, Kaikhusrau abdicated the throne in April 1926. She died in 1930.
 * Upon her abdication, her third and only survi

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History of Bhopal state
The house of Bhopal descends from Dost Mohammad Khan, an Afghan adventurer and cunning intriguer, who belonged to the Mirzai (or Mirazi) sept of the Orakzai (Warakzai) clan of Tirah, an area which today straddles the Af-Pak border. Born around 1672, Dost Mohammad left home as a teenager to seek a living in India. He took service first under Jalal Khan, a noble who belonged to his own Afghan tribe, and later directly under the emperor Aurangzeb. By 1705, when Aurangzeb was in the last years of his very long life, and disorder was already rife, Dost Mohammad (now in his 30s) took service under the Hindu Raja of Sitamau and served as the Mukhtar (guardian) of the infant Thakur of Mangalgarh, whose widowed mother was regent. Mangalgarh was a baronial estate under the Raja of Sitamau. Aurangzeb died in 1707, and several decades of anarchy ensued. During this time, Dost Mohammad played a constant game of intrigue and cunning, leveraged the motley forces available to him from Sitamau and Mangalgarh, used kinship ties within the Afghan community, plundered the coffers of his infant ward, betrayed all his former patrons by turn, seized territories from them and from the Mughal heirs of Aurangzeb, and somehow managed to carve out the sizable principality of Bhopal for himself.

In 123, Dost Mohammad declared himself independent of Mughal authority, an reckless act of hubris which raised the heckles of Asaf Jah I (later the first Nizam of Hyderabad), his immediate overlord in the Mughal hierarchy, who had been on the other side of intrigues at the Mughal court. Dost Mohammad had sided with the Sayyid brothers, who were upstarts like himself, while the Nizam had resisted their usurpation of power. In 1724, the Nizam invaded Bhopal, and Dost Mohammad proved no match for him; after all, this was real war, rather than skirmishes laced with intrigue and back-stabbing, in which he had excelled. Dost Mohammad was stripped of any pretensions to independence and reduced to vassalage, holding office as the Nizam's Qiledar (fort-governor). He was also forced to cede a very big chunk of his territory, including the town of Islamnagar, and to pay one million rupees (10 lakhs) in cash. To ensure his good behavior, his eldest son was taken from him as a hostage by the Nizam.

Dost Mohammad died only four years later, in 1728. He had fathered six sons and several daughters by various wives and concubines, and his descendants were abundant of number, but not of ability. The state faced frequent attack from its neighbours, in particular the Marathas, but the ruling family was both incompetent and racked by internecine conflict among the descendants of Dost Mohammad's two eldest sons. The root cause of discord was the fact that the eldest son was illegitimate, and the eldest legitimate son was a minor when his father died. In 1724, Dost Mohammad had given his eldest (but illegitimate) 15-year-old son, Yar Mohammad, as a hostage to the Nizam of Hyderabad. When Dost Mohammad died in 1728, the Nizam invested his hostage with the insignia of royalty and sent him back to his homeland (Bhopal) to make good his claim on the throne. With the help of the army loaned to him by the Nizam, Yar Mohammad gained control of the state; expand this and talk of Yar Mohammad's wife and widow Maaji Sahib Mamola Bai (a Rajput convert) and her two step-sons (the two sons of Yar Mohammad), her adopted son Chhotey Khan (a Brahmin convert) and how Mamola and Chhotey administered the state effectively and rather well. Chhotey Khan died in 1794 and Mamola Bai died in 1795 aged around 80.

By 1795, Bhopal had lost much of its power and territory. In that year (1795), Bhopal was again faced by an existential threat from the Marathas, and the ruling Nawab, Hayat Mohammad, was able to defend the state only by importuning the intervention of his distant but agnatic cousin, Wazir Mohammad, who was the grandson of Dost Mohammad's fourth son, and who was holding a high position in the army of the Nizam of Hyderabad at that time. With his help, the Marathas were fended off with great difficulty, but the matter did not end there. Wazir Mohammad chose to resign from the service of the Nizam and settle in Bhopal as minister and advisor to his royal kinsman.

Hayat Mohammad died twelve years later, in December 1807, and was succeeded by his indolent son, Ghaus Mohammad, whose mother had been Hayat Mohammad's favorite dancing-girl. Within a matter of months, Ghaus Mohammad had lost battle to the Maharaja Scindia of Gwalior, yielded valuable territory to him, accepted him as overlord, and agreed to pay an annual tribute of Rs. 50,000 to the Gwalior durbar. After this had transpires, minister Wazir Mohammad came to an agreement with Nawab Ghaus Mohammad. While the Nawab would remain Nawab all his life, receiving every mark of honour and public deference, as also a generous allowance, he would make no intervention in affairs of state. He would live in retirement at Raisen outside Bhopal, and the administration would be run by Wazir Mohammad, who was named Nawab Regent. This agreement was reached in November 1808, and Ghaus Mohammad duly retired to Raisen, where he would indeed spend his remaining years quietly. By the time he died in 1826, he would be the father of as many as fifty-six children, borne mostly by concubines and dancing-girls.

In 1816, eight years after talking over the administration, Regent Wazir Mohammad died. He was succeeded as Regent by his second son, Naseer Mohammad (b. 1793), the elder son having been set aside because he had quarreled with his father. Naseer Mohammad, whose mother was a Hindu Rajput lady, was a cultured and well-mannered young man, and he won the goodwill of Nawab Ghaus Mohammad by virtue of polite attentions, deference and good manners. Refined as he was, the new regent had neither experience of battle nor taste for it; there was thus much in common between Nawab and regent. Between them, they quickly agreed upon accepting the treaty of subsidiary alliance which the British were pressing upon all the rulers of India at that time. In February 1818, Ghaus Mohammad bestowed one of his better-born daughters, Qudsia (b. 1801), in marriage upon the young Regent. Exactly at this time, in fact only two days before the wedding, the Bhopal court entered into subsidiary alliance with the H'ble East India Company (HEIC), thereby becoming a protectorate of that company of tradesmen. As part of the agreement with the HEIC, signed in February 1818, significant territory which had earlier been lost to Scindia was restored to Bhopal. A period of general settlement, of external peace and internal concord between the Nawab and his regent son-in-law, was inaugurated. It lasted less than two years. On 11 November 1819, regent Naseer Mohammad was killed in a shooting accident, aged only 26. He was survived by his wife, the 18-year-old Qudsia, and by an infant daughter, Sikandar. Qudsia was pregnant with a second child at this time, but she miscarried within hours of hearing about her husband's death.

The Bhopal Succession Case, 1926
From the early 19th century, the rulers of Bhopal had been female and in the direct line from the founder of the Afghan Pathan Orakzai dynasty, Dost Muhammad Khan. In 1868, at the coronation of the second Nawab Begum, Shah Jehan, her sole surviving daughter, Sultan Kaikhusrau Jahan Begum, was recognised by the British government as the heir apparent (rather than as heiress presumptive). This was unprecedented, because it meant that even if her mother gave birth to a son later, he would not get the throne; the existing daughter would supersede her brother. This had been done for a reason: Nawab Shah Jehan Begum had recently taken a second husband (after the death of Kaikhusrau's father); that second husband was a man of low birth, uncouth manners and corrupt habits. Also, he did not belong to the Mirzai Khel dynasty to which all preceding rulers of Bhopal (including women rulers) had belonged by birth. The idea that a son of such a man may one day sit on the throne of Bhopal was anathema to the nobility of Bhopal, as also to the British, and therefore they had taken the precaution of naming the Begum's only child by her first marriage, her daughter Kaikhushrau, as the heir apparent. In other words, the Begum's second marriage had been rendered effectively morganatic. It happened that the Begums's second marriage did not produce a living child, and so the inherent infirmity of the arrangement was never tested. Following the death of Nawab Shah Jehan Begum in 1901, her only surviving child, her daughter Kaikhusrau Jahan ascended the throne as Nawab Begum of Bhopal.Template:Fix/category[citation needed]

In 1874, Nawab Sultan Kaikhusrau Jahan married a distant cousin, Nawab Ahmad ‘Ali Khan Bahadur (1854-1902), a member of a senior branch of the dynasty to which Dost Muhammad had belonged, namely the Mirzai Khel dynasty. Upon her marriage, Kaikhusrau Jahan became a member of that dynasty, which by birth she was not, because her father had not been a Mirzai Khel dynast. The marriage ensured that the same dynasty would continue in the male line. The couple had three sons, Muhammad Nasrullah Khan (1876-1924), Muhammad Ubaidullah Khan (1878-1924) and Muhammad Hamidullah Khan (1894-1960).Template:Fix/category[citation needed] In 1902, the two elder sons married the daughters of Chanda Begum, their father's only sister, whose husband belonged to the Jalalabadi family, a prominent noble family of Bhopal state. Later, the third son, Hamidullah Khan, married an Afghan princess, Maimoona Sultan. Unfortunately, both of the elder sons died 1924, Ubaidullah from cancer in March that year, and Nasrullah from advanced diabetes in September.[2] Both of them left legitimate male heirs, and by the principle of primogeniture which prevailed in almost every Indian state, the logical heir presumptive to the throne would have been Nasrullah's elder son Muhammad Habibullah Khan (1903-1930).[3]

However, the Nawab Begum of Bhopal had other ideas, which were probably put into her head by her only surviving son, Hamidullah. In 1925, Sultan Kaikhusrau Jahan formally requested the Viceroy's Executive Council to recognise Hamidullah Khan as the heir apparent, in preference to her senior grandson, Habibullah Khan. She provided five reasons, including the following: firstly, that as the ruler, she had the right to nominate her successor; secondly, that Hamidullah Khan was more experienced and better educated than his nephew; thirdly, that Islamic law favoured surviving sons over any grandsons. Her main substantive argument was that the Islamic system of succession, where the throne passed from brother to brother, and therefore surviving sons were preferred over grandsons (see Rota system and the system of succession in the Saudi royal family) should apply to Bhopal. Supported by the Jalalabadi family, Habibullah filed a counter-claim, saying that there was no precedent for applying Islamic principles to succession in Bhopal and pointing out that the laws of primogeniture which had been prevalent since time immemorial in most Indian states, whether Hindu or Muslim, and certainly since the inception of British rule.[3]

After studying the facts of the case, the Viceroy's legal advisors rejected the Begum's request on 21 May 1925, averring that Islamic system of succession had never been applied in Bhopal.[3] Undeterred, Sultan Kaikhusrau Jahan appealed the matter to the India Office in London, then headed by the distinguished advocate Lord Birkenhead. Additional research conducted by the India Office found some support for Sultan Kaikhusrau Jahan's position. It was determined that under a 1772 decree issued by Warren Hastings, all civil legal proceedings for Muslims were to be dealt with according to Islamic law; this included succession to titles and properties. Several precedents existed, including one concerning the succession of Akbar Shah II to the Mughal throne in 1804, where the succession had been justified by citing the same Islamic rules of succession which the Nawab Begum was now invoking.[4]

Thus, the British authorities agreed that Hamidullah Khan would succeed his mother, if he survived her. This decision by the India Office did not, however, mean that the succession was secured to the progeny of Hamidullah Khan alone. On 7 May 1926, the Viceroy of India informed the Nawab Begum that if Hamidullah Khan predeceased her, the succession would pass to the line of her senior surviving grandson in preference to the children of Hamidullah Khan. This was strictly as per the same principles of Islamic succession which the Nawab Begum herself had strenuously insisted upon. However, the Begum was alarmed because it was entirely possible that her third son would die young, just as her two elder sons had died. She wanted earnestly to ensure that the succession passed only to her third son and then his progeny. There was only one way of ensuring this: she should abdicate and make him the ruler immediately. On 14 May 1926, Sultan Kaikhusrau Jahan abdicated in favour of Hamidullah Khan. The new Nawab of Bhopal formally informed the Viceroy and his council that his eldest daughter, Abida Sultan Begum, would succeed him unless he bore a male heir at a later date, in which case his son would succeed to the throne. The Government of India accepted his declaration, deciding the issue for the time being. Thus, Hamidullah Khan ascended the throne of Bhopal during the lifetime of his mother, and ensured that his own children would succeed him, rather than the progeny of his two older brothers.

The eldest son of the Nawab Kaikhusrau Jahan Begum, namely Nasrullah Khan, had left three children as his heirs when he died in 1924. All three of them, including the unfortunate Habibullah Khan, died without leaving any children of their own. The second son of the Nawab Begum, Ubaidullah Khan, had issue three surviving sons. His eldest son died childless and the second son had only one daughter, who embraced the Hindu religion and married an army officer. It was the third son of Ubaidullah Khan, namely Rashid Khan, who remains as a putative claimant to the throne of Bhopal. If Nawab Kaikhusrau Jahan had not changed the succession, it is Rashid Khan and his sons who would have inherited the throne of Bhopal. That family today runs the Jahan Numa hotel in Bhopal and the Reni Pani jungle lodge in the nearby forests.

Post-independence period
Nawab Hamidullah Khan ruled Bhopal until acceding to the Union of India in May 1949. In 1928, he had designated his eldest daughter, Abida Sultan, as heir apparent; she, however, chose to emigrate to Pakistan in 1948, following which Nawab Hamidullah designated his second daughter Sajida Sultan, the Begum of Pataudi, as the new heiress to the throne of Bhopal.[5] The state of Bhopal became a constituent part of Madhya Pradesh in November 1956, and the former Nawab died in Bhopal in February 1960. Following his death, his decision to designate Sajida Sultan as heiress apparent was immediately contested by two other branches of the family before the Indian government formally recognised the claim of Sajida Sultan in January 1961, with retroactive effect. Sajida Sultan was recognised by the Indian government as the last Nawab Begum of Bhopal from her accession in 1960 until 1971, when the government formally derecognised the Indian princely houses. She died in 1995, upon which her only son Mansur Ali Khan, the Nawab of Pataudi, succeeded to the headship of the dynasty and was crowned as the titular Nawab of Bhopal. His maternal aunts Abida Sultan and Rabia Sultan, however, challenged his right to inherit the family properties and filed two civil suits in the Madhya Pradesh High Court in attempts to challenge his "coronation." Other members of the extended family also filed their own claims to various properties in Bhopal, resulting in several ongoing disputes.[5] In 2000, the Bhopal district court issued a ruling which affirmed the Government of India's previous recognition of Sajida Sultan as Nawab Begum of Bhopal over her elder sister Abida Sultan. Abida Sultan herself died in Pakistan two years later, but her son and heir Shahryar Khan declined to assert any claims to the family headship or to any properties in Bhopal.[5]

Following the 1965 Indo-Pakistan War, the 1968 Enemy Property Act gave the central government the right to appropriate Indian properties held by Pakistan nationals. After Nawab Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi died in 2011, his son Saif Ali Khan Pataudi was crowned as the titular Nawab of Pataudi in succession to his father, but he did not formally assume the headship of the erstwhile Bhopal ruling house or hold an investiture ceremony in Bhopal. The office of the Custodian of Enemy Property for India (CEPI) did however issue Saif Ali Khan a notice in December 2014 which recognised him as the successor to the Bhopal estates since his father's death. As of May 2015, the legal process to verify Saif Ali Khan Pataudi's inheritance rights remained an ongoing one.[5]

Claim of Sajida Sultan Begum (1915-1995)
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15px Hajji Nawab Hafiz Muhammad Hamidullah Khan, Nawab of Bhopal (1894-1960; r. 1926-1949) Template:Tree list/final branch 15px Sajida Sultan, Nawab Begum of Bhopal (1915-1995), m. Muhammad Iftikhar ‘Ali Khan Bahadur, Nawab of Pataudi (1910-1952) Nawabzadi Saleha Sultan Begum Sahiba (born 1940) m. Nawab Muhammad Bashir ud-din Khan Bahadur (born 1931) Nawabzada Mohamed Aamer bin Jung (born 1959), m. Zeba Begum Sahiba (born 1961) Sahibzada Mohammad ‘Abdu’llah Sahir bin Jung (born 1984) Template:Tree list/final branch Sahibzadi Esra Sahar Jung (born 1987) Nawabzada Muhammad Sa’ad Bin Jung (born 1960), m. Asma Sangeeta Mankani Begum Sahiba Sahibzada ‘Ali Sha’az Jung (born 1988) Template:Tree list/final branch Sahibzadi Zohar Jung (born 1990) Nawabzada Muhammad Omer Bin Jung (born 1968), m. Anjum Begum Sahiba (born 1968) Sahibzadi Zara Jung (born 1999) Template:Tree list/final branch Sahibzada Ayaan Jung (born 2004) Template:Tree list/final branch Nawabzada Muhammad Fateh Faiz Bin Jung (born 1974) Muhammad Mansur ‘Ali Khan Bahadur, Nawab of Pataudi, Head of the Royal House of Bhopal (1941-2011), m. Nawab Ayesha Sultan Begum Sahiba (Sharmila Tagore) (born 1946) Muhammad Saif Ali Khan Bahadur, Nawab of Pataudi, Head of the Royal House of Bhopal (born 1970), m. (1, 1991-divorced 2004), Amrita Virk [Begum Saif ‘Ali Khan] (born 1958), (2, 2012–present). Kareena Kapoor (born 1980) (1). Nawabzada Ibrahim ‘Ali Khan (born 2001, of Amrita) (2) Nawabzada Taimur Ali Khan (born 2016, of Kareena)[6] Template:Tree list/final branch (3). Nawabzadi Sarah Begum Sahiba (born 1994, of Amrita) (4). Nawabzadi Saba Sultan Begum Sahiba (born 1975) Template:Tree list/final branch (5). Nawabzadi Soha Sultan Begum Sahiba (born 1978), m. Kunal Sharik Khemu (born 1983) Nawabzadi Sabiha Sultan Begum Sahiba (born 1942), m. Sahibzada Mir Arjumand ‘Ali Khan (born 1940) Sahibzadi Zia Sultan Begum Sahiba (born 1965), m. Syed Kamal Fareed Rabia Fareed (born 1989) Template:Tree list/final branch Nadia Fareed (born 1995) Template:Tree list/final branch Sahibzadi Samia Sultan Begum Sahiba (born 1966), m. Christopher Hartnett Imaan Hartnett (born 1995) Template:Tree list/final branch Zara Hartnett (born 1999) Template:Tree list/final branch Nawabzadi Qudsia Sultan Begum Sahiba (1946-1989), m. Mian Ghulam Fariduddin Riaz (born 1939) Iftikharuddin Riaz Template:Tree list/final branch Sara Sultan Begum (born 1970), m. Sahibzada Faiz Muhammad Khan (born 1959; see II) Template:Tree list/final branch Sahibzadi Aaliya Sultan Begum (born 1994) II. Claim of Abida Sultan Begum (1913-2002) Abida Sultan Begum was designated by her father Nawab Hamidullah Khan as the heiress apparent to Bhopal from 1928 until 1948, when she opted to emigrate to Pakistan with her family. She briefly considered contesting the succession to Bhopal upon her father's death in 1960, but ultimately declined to assert her claim to the family headship in favour of her only son, who also declined to exercise his claim.

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15px Hajji Nawab Hafiz Muhammad Hamidullah Khan, Nawab of Bhopal (1894-1960; r. 1926-1949) Template:Tree list/final branch Suraya Jah, Nawab Gowhar-i-Taj, Abida Sultan Begum Sahiba (1913-2002), m. (sep. 1934), ‘Ali Jah, Anis ud-Daula, Nawab Muhammad Sarwar ‘Ali Khan Bahadur, Firuz Jang, Nawab of Kurwai (1901-1984) Template:Tree list/final branch(1). Nawabzada Shahryar Muhammad Khan (born 1934) (2). Sahibzada Faiz Muhammad Khan (born 1959) Template:Tree list/final branch(5). Sahibzadi Aalia Sultan Begum (born 1994) (3). Sahibzada Omar Ali Khan (born 1962) (4). Sahibzada Yawar Ali Khan (born 1969) Template:Tree list/final branch(6). Sahibzadi Alina Khan (born 2005) Template:Tree list/final branch(7). Sahibzadi Faiza Sultan Begum (born 1974) III. Claim of Rashid uz-Zafar Khan (1907-1961) Nawabzada Muhammad Rashid uz-Zafar Khan Bahadur (1907-1961), the sole surviving son of Nawab Hamidullah Khan's elder brother Ubaidullah Khan, and thus the senior-most male heir of the dynasty, contested the succession following the death of his uncle in 1960. The Indian government eventually dismissed his claim in January 1961.Template:Fix/category[citation needed]

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15px Hajjah Kaikhusrau Jahan, Nawab Begum of Bhopal (1858-1930; r. 1901-1926) Template:Tree list/final branch Hajji Nawab Hafiz Muhammad Ubaidullah Khan Sahib Bahadur (1878-1924) Template:Tree list/final branch Yamin ul-Mulk, Imad ud-Daula, Nawabzada Muhammad Rashid uz-Zafar Khan Bahadur (1907-1961) Sahibzadi Mahbano Begum Sahiba (1946-1987) m. Sahibzada Faruq ‘Ali Khan (1934-1995) Sahibzada Omar Faruq ‘Ali (born 1968) Sahibzadi Meher-Bano ‘Ali Khan (born 1998) Template:Tree list/final branch Sahibzadi Zehra ‘Ali Khan (born 2002) Template:Tree list/final branch Sahibzada Raashid ‘Ali (born 1972) Ryka Ali (born 2004) Zoya Ali (born 2006) Template:Tree list/final branch Ayan Ali (born 2009) Sahibzadi Niloufer Begum Sahiba, m. Sahibzada Kazim ‘Ali Khan (born 1935) Template:Tree list/final branch Sahibzadi Farah Begum [Farah Edwards Khan] (born 1974) Married Tim Patrick Edwards U.K ( born 1969) Template:Tree list/final branch Sameera Edwards Khan (born 2003) Seff Daniel Edwards Khan ( born 2006) Sahibzada Nadir Rashid Khan (born 1951) (1). Sahibzada Zafar Rashid Khan (born 1986) (2). Sahibzada Fazal Rashid Khan Template:Tree list/final branch (7). Sahibzadi Aliya Begum Template:Tree list/final branch (3). Sahibzada Yawar Rashid Khan (born 1953) (4). Sahibzada Faiz Rashid Khan (born 1982) Template:Tree list/final branch (5). Sahibzada Nael Rashid Khan (born June 2015) Template:Tree list/final branch(6). Sahibzada ‘Aly Rashid Khan (born 1985) Template:Tree list/final branch (8). Sahibzadi Alizeh (born July 2015) Template:Fix/category[citation needed]

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