Talk:Masud Khan

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There is some more information to be found.
 * http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=fa.010b.0190a
 * http://books.google.de/books?id=eRg6p7KZm9oC&pg=PA161&lpg=PA161&dq=Masud+Kahn%27s+position+within+British+analytic+society&source=bl&ots=JIgm6vHuCm&sig=W06lqJrNk8vojMK-3DGpONcf9dY&hl=de&ei=71SSSrJ5zMr-Bvv9wKoC&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3#v=onepage&q=&f=false
 * http://www.atypon-link.com/GPI/doi/pdf/10.1521/prev.2008.95.6.1017?cookieSet=1
 * http://www.eupjournals.com/doi/abs/10.3366/pah.2006.8.2.281?cookieSet=1&journalCode=pah
 * http://www.bostonreview.net/BR27.6/boynton.html

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What should be inserted and how best?


 * -- 88.75.91.156 (talk) 09:06, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Masud Raza Khan was my Grandfather's brother and I wish to add something about his family and personal life. His father Raja Fazaldad Khan was a hereditary Land Lord belonging to a principal family of the Mair-Minhas Rajput tribe of Chakwal(the reason he insisted to be referred as a Prince). While It is true that he was never really accepted in the Rajput clan due to his maternal background, he was in touch with his step brothers and sisters till he died. His eldest brother Muhammed Akbar Khan(O.B.E) was the first native Indian to become commissioned and later become a General in the British-Indian and later on in Pakistan Army. His other five brothers(Gen. Iftikhar, Gen. Anwar, Ge. Zafar, Brig. yousaf, Brig Afzal) were also famous Generals and Brigadiers in British-Indian and later Pakistan Army. Tahir was his only real brother. There are Wikipedia articles about his tribe and bothers which may be linked to his personal history if desired.

Background
It seems per all well-researched published biographical sources that the above is not particularly accurate, given it's established his father was of peasant origin and basically a "self-made man" who was well-rewarded for his service to the British military. For Masud Khan to call himself "noble born", as the article gives, is not incorrect (despite what was clearly a tendency to be a teller of quite lofty tales) given his father's ascent to zamindar status, and changing his name from merely "Fazaldad" to "Khan Bahadur Fazaldad Khan", but the claim of princely status doesn't seem to be based in any fact that's been reliably produced. Fazaldad Khan certainly doesn't appear to have had any "hereditary" land, nor was he a "Raja" as far as published sources go. The information in Hopkins, for example, as can be seen at https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/books/chapters/0121-1st-hopk.html, is attributed to two of Fazaldad Khan's granddaughters, resident in the U.S.A.