Hamidullah Khan‎

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|name = Nawab Sir Hamidullah Khan

|image = File:Nawab hmidulla khan.jpg

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|caption = Nawab Hamidullah Khan, Last Ruler of Bhopal

|succession = Nawab of Bhopal

|reign = 20 April 1926 – 1 June 1949

|coronation = 9 June 1926

|predecessor = Kaikhusrau Jahan

|successor = Monarchy abolished, Bhopal State created.

|succession1 = Titular Nawab of Bhopal

|reign1 = 1 June 1949 – 4 February 1960

|reign-type1 = Pretender and titular monarch

|successor1 = Sajida Sultan

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|mother = Kaikhusrau Jahan

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1894|09|09|df=y}}

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1960|02|04|1894|09|09|df=y}}

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|allegiance = {{flagicon image|Drapeau Bhopal.svg}} Bhopal State

|serviceyears = 1926 - 1949

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|office = 3rd President of BCCI

|term_start = 1935

|term_end = 1937

|predecessor = Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan

|successor = Sir K. S. Digvijaysinhji

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Nawab Sir Hamidullah Khan {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCSI|GCIE|CVO|KStJ}} (9 September 1894 – 4 February 1960) was the last ruling Nawab of the princely salute state of Bhopal. He ruled from 1926 when his mother, Begum Kaikhusrau Jahan Begum, abdicated in his favour, until 1949 and held the honorific title until his death in 1960. A delegate to the Round Table Conference in London, he served as Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes from 1944 to 1947, when India became independent as the Dominion of India.

During the Second World War, Nawab Hamidullah was present at the Battle of Keren and the Battle of El Alamein. He was very close to Muhammad Ali Jinnah and on very good terms with Louis Mountbatten, Viceroy and Governor General of India. Despite pressure from Jinnah, he reluctantly agreed to have Bhopal join the Union of India.{{cite book|last1=Guha|first1=Ramchandra|title=India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy|date=12 August 2008|isbn=978-0-06-095858-9|page=46,47|publisher=Harper Collins }} He was succeeded by his second daughter, Sajida Sultan, Begum of Bhopal.Nawab Hameedullah Khan by Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, Fikr-o-Nazar, Namwaran-i Aligarh, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, 1986. p., 431-39

Personal life

Nawab Hamidullah Khan attended the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College (MAO College), now the Aligarh Muslim University, graduating in 1905 and Allahabad University, graduating with a BA in law in 1915.{{Cite web |url=http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/b/bhopal.html |title=BHOPAL |access-date=19 April 2015 |archive-date=7 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150607125302/http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/b/bhopal.html |url-status=dead }}

On 5 September 1925 at Peshawar, Nawab Hamidullah Khan married Maimoona Sultan Shah Banu Begum Sahiba (1900–1982), the great-great-granddaughter of Padshah Shuja Shah Durrani of Afghanistan. The couple had three daughters:

  • Suraya Jah, Nawab Gowhar-i-Taj, Abida Sultan Begum Sahiba
  • HH Sikander Saulat, Iftikhar ul-Mulk, Nawab Mehr-i-Taj Sajida Sultan Begum Sahiba, Nawab Begum of Dar ul-Iqbal-i-Bhopal
  • Nawabzadi Qamar-i-Taj Dulhan Rabia Sultan Begum Sahiba (1916–2001). Married twice and had one son and one daughter.

In 1947, he married Aftab Jahan Begum Sahiba (1919–2002), the daughter of a local Bhopali Muslim family. The couple had one daughter:

  • Farzana Begum Sahiba (1948)

He remained the Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University from September 1930 to April 1935.{{Cite web |url=http://www.muslimissues.com/amus-chancellors-a-brief-about-glorious-history/ |title=AMU's Chancellors; a brief about glorious history. Muslim Issues |access-date=18 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170603004918/http://www.muslimissues.com/amus-chancellors-a-brief-about-glorious-history/ |archive-date=3 June 2017 |url-status=dead }}

Titles

  • 1894–1903: Nawabzada Muhammad Hamidu'llah Khan Bahadur
  • 1903–1907: Hajji Nawabzada Muhammad Hamidu'llah Khan Bahadur
  • 1907–1921: Hajji Nawabzada Hafiz Muhammad Hamidu'llah Khan Bahadur
  • 1921–1922: Hajji Nawabzada Hafiz Muhammad Hamidu'llah Khan Bahadur, CSI
  • 1922–1923: Hajji Nawabzada Hafiz Muhammad Hamidu'llah Khan Bahadur, CSI, CVO
  • 1923–1926: Lieutenant Hajji Nawabzada Hafiz Muhammad Hamidu'llah Khan Bahadur, CSI, CVO
  • 1926–1927: Lieutenant His Highness Sikander Saulat, Iftikhar ul-Mulk, Hajji Nawab Hafiz Muhammad Hamidu'llah Khan Bahadur, Nawab of Dar ul-Iqbal-i-Bhopal, CSI, CVO
  • 1927–1929: Lieutenant-Colonel His Highness Sikander Saulat, Iftikhar ul-Mulk, Hajji Nawab Hafiz Sir Muhammad Hamidu'llah Khan Bahadur, Nawab of Dar ul-Iqbal-i-Bhopal, GCIE, CSI, CVO, KStJ
  • 1929–1932: Lieutenant-Colonel His Highness Sikander Saulat, Iftikhar ul-Mulk, Hajji Nawab Hafiz Sir Muhammad Hamidu'llah Khan Bahadur, Nawab of Dar ul-Iqbal-i-Bhopal, GCIE, CSI, CVO, KStJ
  • 1932–1939: Lieutenant-Colonel His Highness Sikander Saulat, Iftikhar ul-Mulk, Hajji Nawab Hafiz Sir Muhammad Hamidu'llah Khan Bahadur, Nawab of Dar ul-Iqbal-i-Bhopal, GCSI, GCIE, CVO, KStJ
  • 1939–1943: Colonel His Highness Sikander Saulat, Iftikhar ul-Mulk, Hajji Nawab Hafiz Sir Muhammad Hamidu'llah Khan Bahadur, Nawab of Dar ul-Iqbal-i-Bhopal, GCSI, GCIE, CVO, KStJ
  • 1943–1945: Air Commodore His Highness Sikander Saulat, Iftikhar ul-Mulk, Hajji Nawab Hafiz Sir Muhammad Hamidu'llah Khan Bahadur, Nawab of Dar ul-Iqbal-i-Bhopal, GCSI, GCIE, CVO, KStJ
  • 1945–1946: Air Vice-Marshal His Highness Sikander Saulat, Iftikhar ul-Mulk, Hajji Nawab Hafiz Sir Muhammad Hamidu'llah Khan Bahadur, Nawab of Dar ul-Iqbal-i-Bhopal, GCSI, GCIE, CVO, KStJ
  • 1946–1960: Major-General & Air Vice-Marshal His Highness Sikander Saulat, Iftikhar ul-Mulk, Hajji Nawab Hafiz Sir Muhammad Hamidu'llah Khan Bahadur, Nawab of Dar ul-Iqbal-i-Bhopal, GCSI, GCIE, CVO, KStJ

Honours

Gallery

File:Nawab Hamidullah Khan.jpg|Image inside Golghar Bhopal

File:Inside golghar Bhopal (2).jpg|Inside Golghar Bhopal

File:Nawab bhopal.jpg|A young Nawab Hamidullah Khan

File:Bhopal Royal Family.jpg|Bhopal royal family. From left to right: Nawab Hamidullah Khan, his wife Maimoona Sultan, their daughters, Rabia Sultan, Abida Sultan, Sajida Sultan in London

File:Caricature of Hamidullah Khan.png|Caricature by Emery Kelen

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