Abida Sultan

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Abida Sultan Begum
Nawab of Bhopal
FatherHamidullah Khan
MotherMaimoona Sultan

Bhopal state
, and his wife Begum Maimoona Sultan.

Life and family

Bhopal royal family. From left to right: Nawab Hamidullah Khan, his wife Maimoona Sultan, their daughters – Rabia Sultan, Abida Sultan, Sajida Sultan in London, 1932

Sultan is the daughter of

Begum of Bhopal, Sultan Jahan, was her grandmother, and her predecessor Shah Jahan Begum was her great-grandmother. The cricketer Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi was her brother-in-law through his marriage to Sajida, and the cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
is her nephew.

In 1926 she married Nawab Mohammad Sarwar Ali Khan, ruler of Kurwai State. In 1928, she was recognized as the heiress apparent to the Bhopal throne. However, she gave up her right to the throne and migrated to the newly formed Pakistan in 1950.[1]

In Pakistan, she joined the

Sajida succeeded her instead upon her father's death in 1960, although Abida Sultan contested the succession in court.[2]

Abida Sultan had arrived in the newly created

Shaharyar Khan, was to become the Foreign Secretary of Pakistan and then the Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board.[3]

References

  1. ^ "The remarkable Begums who defied patriarchal norms to rule Bhopal for more than a century".
  2. ^ "The remarkable Begums who defied patriarchal norms to rule Bhopal for more than a century".
  3. ^ "The remarkable Begums who defied patriarchal norms to rule Bhopal for more than a century".
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