Pataudi State was a small

princely state A princely state (also called native state or Indian state) was a nominally sovereign entity of the British Raj, British Indian Empire that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule, ...

in India, established in 1804 during the East India Company rule in India. The state formed a part of the

Delhi Territory The Delhi Territory was an administrative region in British India which comprised present-day Delhi plus Bhiwani, Faridabad, Fatehabad, Gurgaon, Hisar, Jhajjar, Karnal, Nuh, Palwal, Panipat, Rewari, Rohtak, Sirsa, Sonipat and Yamunanaga ...

in the

Ceded and Conquered Provinces The Ceded and Conquered Provinces constituted a region in northern India that was ruled by the British East India Company from 1805 to 1834; it corresponded approximately—in present-day India—to all regions in Uttar Pradesh sta ...

. It was under the

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of the Commissioner of Delhi. It had an area of 52 square miles and included one town, Pataudi, and 40 villages, ruled by the

Pataudi family The Pataudi family is an Indian people, Indian family of actors and erstwhile nawabs of the former princely states, princely state of Pataudi State, Pataudi, from which they take their name. The first nawab of Pataudi, nawab was Faiz Talab Kha ...

History

The state of Pataudi was established in 1804 by the

British East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southea ...

, when Faiz Talab Khan, an

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Muslim

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of the

Barech Barech (also Baraich, Bareach, Barreach) is a Pashtun tribe in southern Kandahar province Kandahār ( ps, ; Kandahār, prs, ; ''Qandahār'') is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the southern part of the country, sha ...

tribe, who was made the first Nawab, aided them in their battle against the

Maratha Empire The Maratha Empire, also referred to as the Maratha Confederacy, was an early modern Indian confederation that came to dominate much of the Indian subcontinent in the 18th century. Maratha rule formally began in 1674 with the coronation of Shi ...

, during the

Second Anglo-Maratha War } The Second Anglo-Maratha War (1803–1805) was the second conflict between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India. Background The British had supported the "fugitive" Peshwa Raghunathrao in the First Anglo-Maratha War ...

.The Hindu, Sunday, 3 Aug 2003 - ''Royal vignettes: Pataudi: The Afghan connection''
/ref> The family traces their origin to 16th century India, when their ancestors immigrated from present day

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to India during the period of the

Lodi dynasty The Lodi dynasty ( ps, لودي سلسله; fa, سلسله لودی) was an Afghan dynasty that ruled the Delhi Sultanate from 1451 to 1526. It was the fifth and final dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate, and was founded by Bahlul Khan Lodi when he ...

. The 8th Nawab, Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, played cricket for both England and India and captained the latter. His son the last Nawab also captained the

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. At the end of the

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and with the

political integration of India After the Indian independence in 1947, the dominion of India was divided into two sets of territories, one under direct British rule, and the other under the suzerainty of the British Crown, with control over their internal affairs remaining i ...

in 1948, the princely state of Pataudi was absorbed into the new

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(later

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). In 1971, by virtue of the 26th amendment to the

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, the Government of India abolished all official symbols of princely India, including titles, privileges, and remuneration ( privy purses). The former

Pataudi Palace The Pataudi Palace, also called Ibrahim Kothi, is a palace of the former ruling family Pataudi family in Pataudi town of Gurgaon district (now Gurugram district) in Haryana state of India. Passed from the last ruling nawab, Iftikhar Ali Khan, ...

was a hotel for some time, but is now owned privately by

Saif Ali Khan Saif Ali Khan (; born Sajid Ali Khan Pataudi; 16 August 1970) is an Indian actor and film producer who works in Hindi films. Part of the Pataudi family, he is the son of actress Sharmila Tagore and cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi. Khan ...

, the current patriarch of the family.

Rulers

Rulers bore the title of the

Nawab Nawab (Balochi language, Balochi: نواب; ar, نواب; bn, নবাব/নওয়াব; hi, नवाब; Punjabi language, Punjabi : ਨਵਾਬ; Persian language, Persian, Punjabi language, Punjabi , Sindhi language, Sindhi, Urd ...

. * Faiz Talab Khan (1804–1829) * Akbar Ali Khan (1829–1862) * Mohammad Ali Taqi Khan (1862–1867) * Mohammad Mukhtar Husain Khan (1867–1878) * Mohammad Mumtaz Husain Ali Khan (1878–1898) * Mohammad Muzaffar Ali Khan (1898–1913) * Mohammad Ibrahim Ali Khan (1913–1917) * Mohammad Iftikhar Ali Khan (1917–1948)(1948-1952) (just as titular nawab after merging with India) *

Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi Nawab Mohammad Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (also known as Mansur Ali Khan, or M. A. K. Pataudi; 5 January 1941 – 22 September 2011; nicknamed Tiger Pataudi) was an Indian cricketer and a former captain of the Indian cricket team. Pataudi was a ...

(1952–1971) (Title abolished in

1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events Ja ...

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* {{Princely states of the Punjab and Simla Hills Princely states of Punjab Muslim princely states of India History of Haryana Pashtun dynasties Gurgaon district Pataudi

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