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History
No single personality has been at the center of political domination in Awadh, and for such a long period of time (1793-1837), than Nawab Meerza Mehdi Ali Khan, Muntazim ud Doulah alias Hakim Mehdi. He has rightly been described by the British as "the stormy petrol of Oudh politics". The Nawab represents the eldest or the main branch of the ‘Shish Mahal’ family. The family’s original residences were in the area around the present Lucknow Charbagh Station that extended towards Kanpur but shifted to ‘Shish Mahal’ in 1860s when the Railway line was ordered to be laid by the East India Company. Since then the family has been known as the ‘Shish Mahal’ family. This family is one of the families of Awadh who still has the hereditary title of ‘Nawab’ and who also had a permanent seat in the Durbar of the ex-royal families.

Descent
Muntazim ud Doulah alias Hakim Mehdi was born in Kashmir around 1743-44. His father Mir Mohammad Saeed alias Khwaja Sakhi traces his descent from Janab Ibrahim, a son of Imam Moosi e Kazim (A.S.), the 7th Imam of the Athna-e Ashari sect of Islam. Hakim Mehdi had an elder brother, Mir Hadi Ali Khan.

Humayun, the 2nd Mughal King, after being defeated by Sher Shah Suri in 1540, was given shelter by the Safavid Kings of Persia and had stayed there for 13 years. After getting back the throne of Delhi in 1553, with the help of Persia, Humayun brought along with him, some very important and able administrators to India; he had also established marital relations in Persia, and Syed Ghulam Haider Ibn-e Syed Mohammad Haider, an ancestor of Hakim Mehdi, was one of them, and who was also an expert on revenue collection. =

Nawab Ibrahim Ali Khan


Ibrahim Ali Khan s/o Safdar Ali Khan s/o Haider Ali Khan s/o Sadiq Ali Khan s/o Baqir Ali Khan s/o Amjad Ali Khan ‘Ashruf ud Doulah’ s/o Ahmad Ali Khan ‘Munawwar ud Doulah’ is registered with the British Indian Association, Anjuman- e Hind, as the Taluqdar of Kunwah Khera, District Sitapur.

He descends from Syed Ibrahim, one of the sons of Imam Moosi-e Kazim (A.S.), the 7th Imam. Initially, this family arrived in India with the conquest of Humayun over Sher Shah Suri in 1554. His paternal great-grandmother descended from Mir Mohammad Amin, Nawab S’adat Khan, Burhan ul Mulk; one of his ancestress descended from Shah Abbas Safavi, Shah of Persia. His ancestor, Nawab Ahmad Ali Khan ‘Munawwar ud Doulah’, was Prime Minister to two Kings: King Mohammad Ali Shah and King Amjad Ali Shah, without taking any salary; he was also the son in law of King Mohammad Ali Shah. Before him, Nawab Ahmad Ali Khan’s uncle, Nawab Mehdi Ali Khan ‘Muntazim ud Doulah’ alias Hakim Mehdi was also Prime Minister to King Nasir ud din Haider and King Mohammad Ali Shah. His grandmother was the grand-daugter of H. H. Nawab Saeed Ali Khan, the Nawab of Rampur, his mother is the niece of Mir Yousuf Ali Khan, Sir Salar Jung 3rd of Hyderabad, world famous for his Sir Salar Jung Museum of Antiques; his maternal uncle, Nawab Kazim Nawaz Jung alias Ali Pasha, was the son in law of Mir Osman Ali Khan, the last Nizam of Hyderabad.

Nawab Safdar Ali Khan
Wedding of Nawab Safdar Ali Khan, November 1945,

To Sir Salar Jung's left - Nawab Sadiq Ali Khan of Shishmahal; to Nawab Turab Yar Jung's left - Nawab Haider Ali Khan of Shishmahal; to Nawab Haider Ali Khan's left - Nawabzada Shujaat Ali Khan of Shishmahal, and Sir Salar Jung has his hands on the shoulders of Nawabzada Tahawwur Ali Khan of Shishmahal.

Nawab Haider Ali Khan


Nawab Haider Ali Khan Shish Mahal on his wedding day at Sadiq Manzil along with his close relatives on either side.

Nawab Sadiq Ali Khan
Nawab Sadiq Ali Khan, Taluqdar of Konwa Khera, Sitapur. He was Born in 1876.



Succeeded on January 17,1921 on the death of his father Nawab Meerza Mohomed Baqar Ali Khan.

Residence: Sadiq Manzil, Golagunj, Lucknow.