Nawab Nawab is a royal title indicating a 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 Kingdom of Saxony, Kings of ...

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Sajida Sultan Ali Khan Pataudi (4 August 1915 – 5 September 1995) was the daughter of the

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 Confederacy from 1737 to 1818, then under British rule from 1818 to 19 ...

Hamidullah Khan Nawab Sir Hamidullah Khan (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 ...

, and the wife and

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Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi Nawab Mohammad Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, sometimes I. A. K. Pataudi (16 March 1910 – 5 January 1952), was an Indian prince and cricket player. He was the captain of the India's national cricket team during its tour of England in 1946. His ...

, the 8th

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, and in her own right, the 12th

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Sajida Sultan was born on 4 August 1915 in the Qasr-e-Sultani Palace,

Bhopal Bhopal (; ISO 15919, ISO: Bhōpāl, ) is the capital (political), capital city of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and the administrative headquarters of both Bhopal district and Bhopal division. It is known as the ''City of Lakes,'' due to ...

, to

, last ruling

and his wife, Begum Maimoona Sultan. She was the second of three children; she had an older sister,

Abida Sultan Princess Suraya Jah, Nawab Gowhar-i-Taj (born Abida Sultan Begum Sahiba; 28 August 1913 – 11 May 2002), also known as Abida Sultaan, was the eldest daughter of Hamidullah Khan, the last Nawab of the Bhopal state, and his wife Begum Maimoona Su ...

, and a younger sister, Rabia Sultan. Sultan Jahan, the Begum of Bhopal, was her grandmother, and her predecessor Shah Jahan Begum was her great-grandmother. The Pakistani diplomat

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, is her nephew through her sister Abida. On 23 April 1939, Sajida married Nawab Iftikhar Ali Khan, 8th

. Together they had three daughters – Saleha, Sabiha, and Qudsia – and a son, the cricketer

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 ap ...

Sher Ali Khan Pataudi Nawabzada Sher Ali Khan of Pataudi () Hilal-i-Jurat, HJ (13 May 1913 – 29 May 2002) was a Pakistan Army general who served as Chief of the General Staff (Pakistan), Chief of the General Staff and later became a diplomat and politician. Born int ...

, the major general in the

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was her brother-in-law by marriage. The actors

Saif Ali Khan Saif Ali Khan (; born Sajid Ali Khan Pataudi; 16 August 1970) is an Indian actor and film producer who primarily works in Hindi cinema, Hindi films. The titular head of the Pataudi family since 2011, he is the son of actress Sharmila Tagore a ...

and

Soha Ali Khan Soha Ali Khan Pataudi (born 4 October 1978) is an Indian actress who has worked in Hindi, Bengali, and English films. She is the younger daughter of veteran actress Sharmila Tagore and former India cricket captain Mansoor Ali Khan, of Bhopal, ...

, the jewelry designer Saba Ali Khan and the cricketer Saad Bin Jung are her grandsons and granddaughters.

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, an actress in the

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is her great-granddaughter. On 5 January 1952, Iftikhar Ali Khan died and Mansoor succeeded his father as the 9th titular

. In 1960, upon the death of her father, she became the titular ruler of Bhopal. Her older sister, Abida, was the heiress apparent to the title but had emigrated to

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in 1950 and declined to return to Bhopal permanently; her son declined also. Sajida was formally recognised as the Nawab Begum of Bhopal in 1962, with recognition being effective from 1960. She died on 5 September 1995 at the age of 80. Mansoor Ali Khan subsequently became the ''mutawalli'' of the Auqaf-e-Shahi of Bhopal, a title which is currently held by her granddaughter Saba Ali Khan.

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