Faizullah Khan

Faizullah Khan

Nawab of Rampur

Portrait of Nawab Syed Faizullah Khan
Reign 1774–1794
Coronation 1774
Predecessor Ali Mohammad Khan
Successor Muhammad Ali Khan
Born (1730-09-23)23 September 1730
Rampur State Present day Rampur,Uttar Pradesh
Died 17 September 1794(1794-09-17) (aged 64)
Rampur,Uttar Pradesh
Burial Near Eidgah in Rampur
Full name
Syed Faizullah Khan
House Rampur
Dynasty Rohilla
Father Ali Mohammad Khan
Mother Marghalari Begum
Religion Islam

Syed Faizullah Khan (c.1730 - July 17, 1794) [1] was the first Nawab of Rampur.[2] The princely state of Rampur was set up in 1774, after the First Rohilla War, by the dismemberment of the Rohilla state of Rohilkhand. Faizullah Khan, the surviving heir of Ali Mohammed Khan and opponent of the forces of Awadh and the British East India Company in the war, was installed as ruler of what was a state. It bordered the Maratha Empire to the south, making it a strategic point.

Biography

He was the second son of Ali Muhammad Khan. He assumed rule of the Rohillas after his father's death. In 1774, during the invasion of Rohilkhand by the united armies of the Vizier Shuja-ud-Daula and the British East India Company, Faizullah Khan led a resistance in which many of the Rohilla's principal chiefs were killed. Escaping from the slaughter, Faizullah Khan made his retreat good towards the mountains, with all his treasure. He collected the scattered remains of his countrymen; and as he was the eldest surviving son of Ali Mohammed Khan, he seems at length to have been generally acknowledged by his natural subjects the undoubted heir of his father's authority.

Faizullah Khan was a syed among the pashtuns and his family settled South Asia during the Mughal Empire. The pashtuns consisted of high-ranking soldiers and administrative elites of the Mughal Empire. Rampur State was one of the important Shia princely states with Awadh. Faizullah Khan was Sunni and wanted his son Muhammad Ali Khan to accept the same tradition. However, due to the influence and teaching of Nawab Asaf-ud-Dauala, his eldest son accepted Shia creed.[3]

He was buried in a tomb near Eidgah Darawaza Rampur.

Under tutelage of the East India Company, Faizullah Khan ruled peacefully for 20 years.[1] The capital Rampur was founded,[4] and the Raza Library collection gathered.[5]

Descendants

He had 18 children.[3]

From wife Gulzadi Begum Kulan, sister of his brother-in-law Bahadur Khan Kamalzai:

From wife Taj Begum of Kamalzai ancestry:

From wife Gulzadi Begum Khird of Kamalzai tribe:

From wife Nihayat Begum of Bunerwal ancestry:

Notes

  1. 1 2 Khan, Mohammad Najmul Ghani (1918). Akhbar-us-Sanadeed, Vol. 1. Lucknow: Munshi Nawal Kishore. p. 599.
  2. ↑ RAMPUR
  3. 1 2 Khan, Mohammad Najm-ul-Ghani (1918). Akhbar-us-Sanadeed, Vol. 1. Lucknow: Munshi Nawal Kishore. pp. Page 601–603.
  4. ↑ Rampur Online
  5. ↑ Untitled Document
Faizullah Khan
Born: c.1730 Died: 24 July 1793
Regnal titles
Preceded by
None; new dynasty		 Nawab of Rampur
15 September 1748- 24 July 1793 		Succeeded by
Nawab Muhammad Ali Khan
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