Nawab (
Balochi Balochi, sometimes spelt in various other ways, may refer to:
* Balochi language, a language of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan
* an adjective for something related to the Baloch people, an ethnic group of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan
* an adjecti ...
: نواب; ar, نواب;
bn, নবাব/নওয়াব;
hi, नवाब;
Punjabi
Punjabi, or Panjabi, most often refers to:
* Something of, from, or related to Punjab, a region in India and Pakistan
* Punjabi language
* Punjabi people
* Punjabi dialects and languages
Punjabi may also refer to:
* Punjabi (horse), a British Th ...
: ਨਵਾਬ;
Persian,
Punjabi
Punjabi, or Panjabi, most often refers to:
* Something of, from, or related to Punjab, a region in India and Pakistan
* Punjabi language
* Punjabi people
* Punjabi dialects and languages
Punjabi may also refer to:
* Punjabi (horse), a British Th ...
,
Sindhi,
Urdu: ), also spelled Nawaab, Navaab, Navab, Nowab, Nabob, Nawaabshah, Nawabshah or Nobab, is a
Royal title indicating a
sovereign
''Sovereign'' is a title which can be applied to the highest leader in various categories. The word is borrowed from Old French , which is ultimately derived from the Latin , meaning 'above'.
The roles of a sovereign vary from monarch, ruler or ...
ruler, often of a South Asian state, in many ways comparable to the western title of
Prince. The relationship of a Nawab to the Emperor of India has been compared to that of the
Kings of Saxony
The Kingdom of Saxony (german: Königreich Sachsen), lasting from 1806 to 1918, was an independent member of a number of historical confederacies in Napoleonic through post-Napoleonic Germany. The kingdom was formed from the Electorate of Saxon ...
to the
German Emperor. In earlier times the title was ratified and bestowed by the reigning
Mughal emperor to semi-autonomous
Muslim
Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...
rulers of subdivisions or
princely states in the
Indian subcontinent loyal to the
Mughal Empire, for example the
Nawabs of Bengal
The Nawab of Bengal ( bn, বাংলার নবাব) was the hereditary ruler of Bengal Subah in Mughal India. In the early 18th-century, the Nawab of Bengal was the ''de facto'' independent ruler of the three regions of Bengal, Bihar, ...
. The title is common among Muslim rulers of South Asia as an equivalent to the title
Maharaja.
"Nawab" usually refers to males and literally means ''Viceroy''; the female equivalent is "
Begum" or "''Nawab Begum''". The primary duty of a Nawab was to uphold the sovereignty of the
Mughal emperor along with the administration of a certain province.
The title of "nawabi" was also awarded as a personal distinction by the paramount power, similar to a
British peerage, to persons and families who ruled a princely state for various services to the government of
British India. In some cases, the titles were also accompanied by
jagir
A jagir ( fa, , translit=Jāgir), also spelled as jageer, was a type of feudal land grant in the Indian subcontinent at the foundation of its Jagirdar (Zamindar) system. It developed during the Islamic rule era of the Indian subcontinent, start ...
grants, either in cash revenues and allowances or land-holdings. During the British Raj, some of the chiefs, or
sardars, of large or important tribes were also given the title, in addition to traditional titles already held by virtue of chieftainship.
The term ''"
Zamindari"'' was originally used for the ''
subahdar
Subahdar, also known as Nazim or in English as a "Subah", was one of the designations of a governor of a Subah (province) during the Khalji dynasty of Bengal, Mamluk dynasty (Delhi), Khalji dynasty, Tughlaq dynasty, Mughal era ( of India who w ...
'' (provincial governor) or viceroy of a ''
subah
A Subah was the term for a province (State) in the Mughal Empire. The word is derived from Arabic and Persian. The governor/ruler of a ''Subah'' was known as a '' subahdar'' (sometimes also referred to as a "''Subeh''"), which later became ''subed ...
'' (province) or regions of the
Mughal empire.
History
Nawab is a
Hindustani
Hindustani may refer to:
* something of, from, or related to Hindustan (another name of India)
* Hindustani language, an Indo-Aryan language, whose two official norms are Hindi and Urdu
* Fiji Hindi, a variety of Eastern Hindi spoken in Fiji, and ...
term, used in
Urdu,
Hindi,
Bengali and many other North-Indian languages, borrowed via
Persian from the
Arabic honorific plural of ''naib'', or "deputy." In some areas, especially
Bengal, the term is pronounced ''nobab''. This later variation has also entered English and other foreign languages as
nabob.
The term "Nawaab" is often used to refer to any Muslim ruler in north or
south India while the term "
nizam" is preferred for a senior official—it literally means "governor of region". The
Nizam of Hyderabad
The Nizams were the rulers of Hyderabad from the 18th through the 20th century. Nizam of Hyderabad (Niẓām ul-Mulk, also known as Asaf Jah) was the title of the monarch of the Hyderabad State ( divided between the state of Telangana, Mar ...
had several nawabs under him: Nawabs of Cuddapah, Sira, Rajahmundry, Kurnool, Chicacole, et al. "Nizam" was his personal title, awarded by the Mughal Government and based on the term "Nazim" as meaning "senior officer". "Nazim" is still used for a district collector in many parts of India. The term "nawab" is still technically imprecise, as the title was also awarded to Hindus and
Sikh
Sikhs ( or ; pa, ਸਿੱਖ, ' ) are people who adhere to Sikhism, Sikhism (Sikhi), a Monotheism, monotheistic religion that originated in the late 15th century in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, based on the revelation of Gu ...
s, as well, and large
zamindars and not necessarily to all Muslim rulers. With the decline of that empire, the title, and the powers that went with it, became hereditary in the ruling families in the various provinces.
Under later British rule, nawabs continued to rule various
princely states of
Amb
AMB may refer to:
* Active magnetic bearing
* Advanced Memory Buffer, used in Fully Buffered DIMM memory
* Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, one of the armed sections of the Palestinian Fatah movement
* Ambergate railway station, abbreviation used in the ...
,
Bahawalpur,
Balasinor,
Baoni,
Banganapalle,
Bhopal,
Cambay,
Jaora,
Junagadh,
Kurnool
Kurnool is a city in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. It formerly served as the capital of Andhra State (1953–1956). The city is often referred to as "The Gateway of Rayalaseema".Kurnool is also known as The City of Gem Stones. It also se ...
(the main city of Deccan),
Kurwai, Mamdot,
Multan,
Palanpur,
Pataudi,
Radhanpur,
Rampur,
Malerkotla,
Sachin, and
Tonk. Other former rulers bearing the title, such as the nawabs of
Bengal and
Awadh, had been deprived by the British or others by the time the Mughal dynasty finally ended in 1857.
Some princes became Nawab by promotion, e.g. the ruler of
Palanpur was "diwan" until 1910, then "nawab sahib". Other nawabs were promoted are restyled to another princely style, or to and back, e.g. in
Rajgarh a single rawat (rajah) went by nawab.
The style for a nawab's queen is ''
begum''. Most of the nawab dynasties were male
primogeniture
Primogeniture ( ) is the right, by law or custom, of the firstborn legitimate child to inherit the parent's entire or main estate in preference to shared inheritance among all or some children, any illegitimate child or any collateral relativ ...
s, although several ruling
Begums of Bhopal were a notable exception.
Before the incorporation of the
Subcontinent into the
British Empire, nawabs ruled the kingdoms of Awadh (or Oudh, encouraged by the British to shed the Mughal suzerainty and assume the imperial style of Badshah), Bengal,
Arcot and Bhopal.
Ruling nawab families
Families ruling when acceding to India
* Nawab of Akbarpur - Asmatara Farida Begum
* Nawab
Mir Osman Ali Khan Bahadur, the 7th
Nizam of Hyderabad
The Nizams were the rulers of Hyderabad from the 18th through the 20th century. Nizam of Hyderabad (Niẓām ul-Mulk, also known as Asaf Jah) was the title of the monarch of the Hyderabad State ( divided between the state of Telangana, Mar ...
* Nawab of Ashwath
* Nawab Babi of
Balasinor
*
Nawab of Banganapalle, previously
Masulipatam
* Nawab of
Baoni
* Nawab of Lucknow, Late Nawab B.B Agnihotri
* Nawab of Basai, Nawab Khwaja Muhammad Khan
* Nawab of
Berar styled Mirza of Berar (under the
Nizam of Hyderabad
The Nizams were the rulers of Hyderabad from the 18th through the 20th century. Nizam of Hyderabad (Niẓām ul-Mulk, also known as Asaf Jah) was the title of the monarch of the Hyderabad State ( divided between the state of Telangana, Mar ...
)
* Nawab of
Bhikampur and Datawali (Aligarh)
*
Nawab of Bhopal
The Nawabs of Bhopal were the Muslim rulers of Bhopal, now part of Madhya Pradesh, India. The nawabs first ruled under the Mughal Empire from 1707 to 1737, under the Maratha Empire from 1737 to 1818, then under British rule from 1818 to 1947, an ...
(female rulers were known as Nawab Begum of Bhopal)
*
Nawabs of Cambay
Nawab ( Balochi: نواب; ar, نواب;
bn, নবাব/নওয়াব;
hi, नवाब;
Punjabi : ਨਵਾਬ;
Persian,
Punjabi ,
Sindhi,
Urdu: ), also spelled Nawaab, Navaab, Navab, Nowab, Nabob, Nawaabshah, Nawabshah or Nobab, ...
(Kambay)
* the former
Nawabs of the Carnatic, restyled Princes of Arcot
* Nawab of Dujana
*
Nawab of Farrukhabad
Farrukhabad is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is the administrative headquarters of the Farrukhabad tehsil. The city is on the banks of river Ganges and is from the national capital Delhi and from the state capital Lucknow.
...
* Nawab of
Jaora
* Nawab Sahib of
Junagadh
* Nawab of
Maler Kotla
* Nawab of
Muhammadgar
* Nawab Sahib of
Palanpur (till 1910 styled Diwan)
*Nawab of Awadh
* Nawab of
Pathari
Pathari is a town in Vidisha district, Many tourist attractions in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
Geography
Pathari is located at . It is located close to a lake on a hillock with an elevation of 550 metres. There are ancient ruins ...
*
Nawab of Radhanpur
Radhanpur State was a princely state in India during the British Raj. Its rulers belonged to a family of Babi House, the state was once a polity within the Mughal Empire. The last ruling Nawab, Nawab of Radhanpur, Nawab Murtaza Khan, signed the ...
*
Nawab of Rampur
*
Nawab of Sachin
*
Nawab of Sardhana The Nawab of Sardhana is an honorary Muslim title bestowed upon the descendants of the Afghan warlord and statesman Jan-Fishan Khan, for services to the British Raj – both in the failed British Anglo-Afghan War, Afghan campaigns, as well as during ...
*
Nawab of Tonk, India
* Nawab of
Ghazipur
Former dynasties of princely states in India abolished before independence
*
Nawab of Kurwai
*
Nawab of Pataudi
*
Nawab of Savanur
Savanur State, Nawab of Savanur was one of the princely states in British India. The last ruler of the state acceded to the Dominion of India on 8 March 1948, becoming part of the Mysore State in what is now Karnataka.
History
The name Savanur ...
*
Nawab of Mamdot
* Nawab of
Tarakote State
Tarakote formerly Shergarh-Tarakote Estate was a quasi princely state in Korei, Odisha which was established under the Mughal Empire as a Sarakaar and was later reduced to an intermediary princely estate during the subsequent Maratha and the Br ...
*
Nawab of Farukhnagar
Nawab ( Balochi: نواب; ar, نواب;
bn, নবাব/নওয়াব;
hi, नवाब;
Punjabi : ਨਵਾਬ;
Persian,
Punjabi ,
Sindhi,
Urdu: ), also spelled Nawaab, Navaab, Navab, Nowab, Nabob, Nawaabshah, Nawabshah or Noba ...
*
Nawab of Jhajjar
Nawab ( Balochi: نواب; ar, نواب;
bn, নবাব/নওয়াব;
hi, नवाब;
Punjabi : ਨਵਾਬ;
Persian,
Punjabi ,
Sindhi,
Urdu: ), also spelled Nawaab, Navaab, Navab, Nowab, Nabob, Nawaabshah, Nawabshah or Nobab, ...
*
Nawab of Surat
Families ruling when acceding to Pakistan
*
Nawab of Kalabagh
Malik Amir Mohammad Khan (; 20 June 1910 – 26 November 1967) was the Nawab of Kalabagh and a prominent feudal lord, politician, the chief or sardar of the Awan tribe, and of his tribal estate Kalabagh, in Mianwali District of north western P ...
*
Nawab of Amb
Amb or Kingdom of Amb also Feudal Tanawal (Urdu/ Persian: ''ریاست امب,'' romanized: ''Riyasat-e-Amb'') was a princely state in the present day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region of Pakistan. It was a monarchy ruled by the Tanolis, a tribe of th ...
*
Nawab of Bahawalpur
* Nawab of
Dir
* Nawab Sahib of
Junagadh
* Nawab of
Kharan
* Nawab of
Maler Kotla
Families ruling when acceding to Bangladesh
*
Nawab of Bengal
The Nawab of Bengal ( bn, বাংলার নবাব) was the hereditary ruler of Bengal Subah in Mughal India. In the early 18th-century, the Nawab of Bengal was the ''de facto'' independent ruler of the three regions of Bengal, Bihar, ...
*
Nawab of Dhaka
*
Nawab of Longla (Sylhet)
Former dynasties which became political pensioners
*
Padshah-i-Oudh, formerly
Nawab Wazir
Nawab ( Balochi: نواب; ar, نواب;
bn, নবাব/নওয়াব;
hi, नवाब;
Punjabi : ਨਵਾਬ;
Persian,
Punjabi ,
Sindhi,
Urdu: ), also spelled Nawaab, Navaab, Navab, Nowab, Nabob, Nawaabshah, Nawabshah or Nobab, ...
of Awadh,
:: also imperial
Wazir
Wazir often refers to:
* Vizier or wazir, a high-ranking political advisor or minister
Wazir may also refer to:
Places
* Wazirabad, a City in Punjab, Pakistan
* Waziristan, a region in tribal belt of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
* Wazir Akbar K ...
of all Mughal India, both hereditary
*
Nawabs of Bengal
The Nawab of Bengal ( bn, বাংলার নবাব) was the hereditary ruler of Bengal Subah in Mughal India. In the early 18th-century, the Nawab of Bengal was the ''de facto'' independent ruler of the three regions of Bengal, Bihar, ...
, as Nawabs of
Murshidabad
* Nawab of Marauli
* Nawab of Patna
* Nawab of Surat
*
Nawab of Longla (Sylhet)
Rohilla Confederation
All of these states were at some point under the authority of the Nawab of Rohilkhand, later made the Nawab of Rampur. Most of these states were annexed at the close of the
First Rohilla War.
*
Nawab of Badaun
*
Nawab of Moradabad
*
Nawab of Bareilly
*
Nawab of Najibabad
*
Nawab of Philibit
*
Nawab of Farrukhabad
Farrukhabad is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is the administrative headquarters of the Farrukhabad tehsil. The city is on the banks of river Ganges and is from the national capital Delhi and from the state capital Lucknow.
...
*
Nawab of Bisollee
Miscellaneous nawabs
Personal nawabs
The title ''nawab'' was also awarded as a personal distinction by the paramount power, similarly to a
British peerage, to persons and families who never ruled a princely state. For the Muslim elite various Mughal-type titles were introduced, including nawab. Among the noted British creations of this type were Nawab
Hashim Ali Khan (1858–1940), Nawab
Khwaja Abdul Ghani (1813–1896),
Nawab Abdul Latif
Nawab Bahadur Abdul Latif (1828 – 10 July 1893) was a 19th-century Bengali aristocrat, educator and social worker. His title, ''Nawab'' was awarded by the British in 1880. He was one of the first Muslims in 19th-century India to embrace the i ...
(1828–1893), Nawab
Faizunnesa Choudhurani
Nawab Begum Faizunnesa Choudhurani ( bn, নওয়াব বেগম ফয়জুন্নেসা চৌধুরানী; 1834–1903) was Zamindar of Homnabad-Pashchimgaon Estate in present-day Comilla District, Bangladesh. She is mo ...
(1834–1904), Nawab
Ali Chowdhury (1863–1929),
Nawaab Syed Shamsul Huda
Syed Shamsul Huda (1862–1922) was a Muslim political leader of the Bengal Executive Council. He became the first British Indian Muslim President of the Legislative council in 1921. Huda was born in Gokarna, palace known as Gokarna Nawab ...
(1862–1922),
Nawab Sirajul Islam Nawab Sirajul Islam (1845-1923) was a Bengali lawyer during the British rule of India, a Muslim activist, and education reformer. He was the second Muslim from Bengal Presidency to complete graduation studies.
Early life
Islam was born in 1845 in ...
(1848–1923),
Nawab Alam yar jung Bahadur, M.A, Madras, B.A., B.C.L., Barr-At-Law (1890–1974). There also were the Nawabs of Dhanbari, Nawabs of Ratanpur, Nawabs of
Baroda and such others.
Nawab as a court rank
''Nawab'' was also the rank title—again not an office—of a much lower class of
Muslim
Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...
nobles—in fact retainers—at the court of the
Nizam of Hyderabad
The Nizams were the rulers of Hyderabad from the 18th through the 20th century. Nizam of Hyderabad (Niẓām ul-Mulk, also known as Asaf Jah) was the title of the monarch of the Hyderabad State ( divided between the state of Telangana, Mar ...
and
Berar State, ranking only above
Khan Bahadur
Khan Bahadur – a compound of khan ('leader') and bahadur ('brave') – was a formal title of respect and honor, which was conferred exclusively on Muslim and other non-Hindu natives of British India. It was one degree higher than the title of K ...
and Khan, but under (in ascending order)
Jang,
Daula,
Mulk,
Umara and
Jah
Jah or Yah ( he, , ''Yāh'') is a short form of (YHWH), the four letters that form the tetragrammaton, the personal name of God: Yahweh, which the ancient Israelites used. The conventional Christian English pronunciation of ''Jah'' is , even th ...
; the equivalent for Hindu courtiers was
Raja Bahadur.
Derived titles
Nawabzada
This style, adding the Persian suffix ''-zada'' which means son (or other male descendants; see other cases in prince), etymologically fits a nawab’s sons, but in actual practice various dynasties established other customs.
For example, in
Bahawalpur only the nawbab's
heir apparent used ''nawabzada'' before his personal name, then ''Khan Abassi'', finally ''Wali Ahad Bahadur'' (an enhancement of Wali Ehed), while the other sons of the ruling nawab used the style
sahibzada
Sahib or Saheb (; ) is an Arabic title meaning 'companion'. It was historically used for the first caliph Abu Bakr in the Quran. The title is still applied to the caliph by Sunni Muslims.
As a loanword, ''Sahib'' has passed into several langua ...
before the personal name and only Khan Abassi behind. "Nawabzadi" implies daughters of the reigning nawbab.
Elsewhere, there were rulers who were not styled nawbab yet awarded a title nawabzada to others.
Naib (Ottoman, Iranian, Arabic title)
The word ''naib'' ( ar, نائب) has been historically used to refer to any
suzerain
Suzerainty () is the rights and obligations of a person, state or other polity who controls the foreign policy and relations of a tributary state, while allowing the tributary state to have internal autonomy. While the subordinate party is calle ...
leader,
feudatory, or
regent in some parts of the
Ottoman Empire, successive early modern
Persianate kingdoms (
Safavids, etc.), and in the eastern
Caucasus (e.g. during
Caucasian Imamate
The Caucasian Imamate, also known as the Caucasus Imamate ( ar, إمامة القوقاز, translit=Imamat Al-Qawqaz), was a state established by the imams in Dagestan and Chechnya during the early-to-mid 19th century in the North Caucasus ...
). In the
Sultanate of Morocco, the Naib was the Sultan's
emissary to the foreign legations in
Tangier between 1848 and 1923, when the creation of the
Tangier International Zone led to its replacement by the office of the
Mendoub
The Mendoub or Mandub ( ar, مندوب, "delegate" or "representative") was a key official in the governance of the Tangier International Zone between 1925 and 1956, with a wartime interruption from 1941 to 1945. He represented the authority of ...
.
Today, the word is used to refer to directly elected legislators in lower houses of parliament in many Arabic-speaking areas to contrast them against officers of upper houses (or
Shura). The term
Majlis al-Nuwwab ( ar, مجلس النواب, literally ''council of deputies'') has been adopted as the name of several legislative lower houses and unicameral legislatures.
"Naib" has also been used in the
Malay language (especially of the
Malaysian variant) to translate the component of "deputy" or "vice" in certain titles (e.g "Vice President" - ''Naib Presiden'') aside from ''timbalan'' and ''wakil'' (latter predominant in the
Indonesian variant).
"Nabob", derived colloquial term
In colloquial usage in English (since 1612), adopted in other Western languages, the
transliteration "nabob" refers to commoners: a merchant-leader of high social status and wealth. "Nabob" derives from the
Bengali pronunciation of "nawab": bn, নবাব ''nôbab''.
During the 18th century in particular, it was widely used as a disparaging term for British merchants or administrators who, having made a fortune in India, returned to Britain and aspired to be recognised as having the higher social status that their new wealth would enable them to maintain.
Jos Sedley in
Thackeray's ''Vanity Fair'' is probably the best known example in fiction.
From this specific usage it came to be sometimes used for ostentatiously rich businesspeople in general.
"Nabob" can also be used metaphorically for people who have a grandiose sense of their own importance, as in the famous alliterative dismissal of the news media as "''nattering nabobs of negativism''" in a speech that was delivered by
Nixon's vice president
Spiro Agnew and written by
William Safire.
"nattering nabobs of negativism"
, PoliticalDictionary.com. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
Gallery
File:Major-General the Hon. Arthur Wellesley being received in durbar at the Chepauk Palace Madras by Azim al-Daula Nawab of the Carnatic 18th February 1805.jpg, Azim-ud-Daula
Azim-ud-Daula (1775 – 2 August 1819) was the Nawab of Carnatic from 1801 to 1819. He was the eldest son of Amir ul-Umara and nephew of Umdat ul-Umara.
Treaty of 1801
He ascended the throne upon his uncle's death in 1801.
As soon a ...
File:Oziashumphrey.jpg, Hyder Beg Khan of Awadh
File:CheetahHunt.jpg, Nawabs hunting a blackbuck with their Asiatic cheetah
The Asiatic cheetah (''Acinonyx jubatus venaticus'') is a critically endangered cheetah subspecies currently only surviving in Iran. It once occurred from the Arabian Peninsula and the Near East to the Caspian region, Transcaucasus, Kyzylkum D ...
File:Javanbakht.jpg, Nawab of Awadh
File:Cheetahs nawab oudh1844.jpg, Nawabs and cheetahs
File:Nawab of Kalabagh Malik Amir Mohammad khan.jpeg, Nawab Malik Amir Mohammad Khan The Nawab of Kalabagh
Malik Amir Mohammad Khan (; 20 June 1910 – 26 November 1967) was the Nawab of Kalabagh and a prominent feudal lord, politician, the chief or sardar of the Awan tribe, and of his tribal estate Kalabagh, in Mianwali District of north western P ...
and chief of the Awan tribe
File:A Nawab of Awadh, Lucknow, India. 19th century.jpg, Afsharids and a Mughal
Mughal or Moghul may refer to:
Related to the Mughal Empire
* Mughal Empire of South Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries
* Mughal dynasty
* Mughal emperors
* Mughal people, a social group of Central and South Asia
* Mughal architecture
* Mug ...
nawab
File:Stinger Lawrence and Nawab Wallajah.JPG, Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah the Nawab of Carnatic
File:Nawab shuja ud daulah.jpg, Shuja-ud-Daula the Nawab of Awadh
File:Shujah ud-Daulah and his sons shoberl.jpg, Shuja-ud-Daula and his sons and relative
File:The Third battle of Panipat 13 January 1761.jpg, Nawabs in battle during the Battle of Panipat (1761)
File:Death of the Nabob of the Carnatic by Paul Philippoteaux.jpg, Nawab of the Carnatic in battle
File:A Nawab of Mughal dynasty, India, 17th-18th century.jpg, A nawab, during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan
Shihab-ud-Din Muhammad Khurram (5 January 1592 – 22 January 1666), better known by his regnal name Shah Jahan I (; ), was the fifth emperor of the Mughal Empire, reigning from January 1628 until July 1658. Under his emperorship, the Mugha ...
File:Shuja-ud-Din Muhammad Khan.jpg, Shuja-ud-Din Muhammad Khan the Nawab of Bengal
The Nawab of Bengal ( bn, বাংলার নবাব) was the hereditary ruler of Bengal Subah in Mughal India. In the early 18th-century, the Nawab of Bengal was the ''de facto'' independent ruler of the three regions of Bengal, Bihar, ...
File:Muhammad Anwaruddin.jpg, Anwaruddin Muhammed Khan the Nawab of the Carnatic
File:Nawab of Bengal.jpg, Nawab of Bengal
The Nawab of Bengal ( bn, বাংলার নবাব) was the hereditary ruler of Bengal Subah in Mughal India. In the early 18th-century, the Nawab of Bengal was the ''de facto'' independent ruler of the three regions of Bengal, Bihar, ...
Indian states formerly ruled by Nawabs
* Amb (Tanoli)
* Arcot
* Awadh
* Bahawalpur
* Balasinor
* Banganapalle
* Baoni
* Bengal
* Berar (nominally under Nizam of Hyderabad)
* Bhopal
* Cambay
* Dir
* Farrukhabad ( Uttar Pradesh, India)
* Farrukhnagar
* Hyderabad
* Jaora
* Junagadh
* Ghazipur
*Tarakote State
Tarakote formerly Shergarh-Tarakote Estate was a quasi princely state in Korei, Odisha which was established under the Mughal Empire as a Sarakaar and was later reduced to an intermediary princely estate during the subsequent Maratha and the Br ...
* Kurwai
* Kalabagh
* Malerkotla
*Mamdot The Nawab of Mamdot was the title of the hereditary rulers of Mamdot, a princely state, near Firozpur, in the Punjab region of British India.
Background
In 1794, Nizamuddin and his younger brother Qutbuddin, established themselves as rulers of Kasu ...
* Manavadar
*Warcha
Warcha ( ur, ), is a village and one of the 51 Union Councils (administrative subdivisions) of Khushab District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), i ...
* Palanpur ( Gujarat, India)
* Pataudi
* Radhanpur
* Rampur
* Sachin
* Tonk
See also
* Subedar
Subedar is a rank of junior commissioned officer in the Indian Army; a senior non-commissioned officer in the Pakistan Army, and formerly a Viceroy's commissioned officer in the British Indian Army.
History
''Subedar'' or ''subadar'' was the ...
* Mughal Empire
References
Further reading
*
*
Etymology OnLine
*{{EB1911, wstitle=Nawab, volume=19, page=317
Gubernatorial titles
Heads of state
Noble titles
Royal titles
Titles in Bangladesh
Titles in India
Titles in Pakistan
Titles of national or ethnic leadership