Nawab (Urdu: نواب ) was originally the subadar (provincial governor) or viceroy of a subah (province) or region of the Mughal empire. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... A Subah is a province of the former Mughal Empire. ... Extent of Mughal empire in the late 1600s: the Mughals ruled all but the southern tip of the subcontinent. ...

The term is Urdu, derived from the Arabic word naib, meaning deputy. In some areas, especially Bengal, the term is pronounced Nabob. This later variation has entered the English and other foreign languages, see below. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The Arabic language (Arabic: ‎ translit: ), or simply Arabic (Arabic: ‎ translit: ), is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... Bengal, known as Bôngo (Bengali: বঙ্গ), Bangla (বাংলা), Bôngodesh (বঙ্গদেশ), or Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশ) in Bangla, is a region in the northeast of South Asia. ...

Since most of the Muslim rulers of the subcontinent had -like most otherwise titled Hindu (maha)radjas and other princely states- accepted the authority of the Mughals at the height of this empire the term Nawab is often used to refer to any Muslim ruler in the subcontinent. This is technically imprecise, as it was also awarded to others and not applied to every Muslim ruler. 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. A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم) is an adherent of Islam. ... A princely state is any state under the reign of a prince, both terms being taken in the broad sense. ...

Many Nawabs later accepted British rule. Under later British rule, Muslim Nawabs continued to rule various princely states of Awadh, Bahawalpur, Baoni, Banganapalle, Bhopal, Cambay, Jaora, Junagadh, Kalabagh, Kurnool, Kurwai, Palanpur (Pakistan), Pataudi, Rampur, Sachin, and Tonk. Other former rulers bearing the title, such as the Nawabs of Bengal, had been dispossessed by the British or others by the time the Mughal dynasty finally ended in 1857. A princely state or native state was a feudal monarchy in British India ruled by a hereditary ruler, who was nominally sovereign. ... Awadh (also known to the British as Oudh) is a region in the center of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. ... Bahawalpur is a city of Pakistan (1998 pop. ... Banganapalle is a town in Andhra Pradesh state, southern India. ... Bhopāl (भोपाल) is a city in central India. ... Cambay, also known as Khambhat, is a town in Gujarat state, India. ... Jaora is a town in Ratlam district of Malwa, which had been a princely state before independence. ... Junagadh is a city, in Junagadh District, in the Indian state of Gujarat. ... Kalabagh is situated in Mianwali district of Punjab on the bank of Indus River. ... Map showing kurnool district Kurnool is a city in Andhra Pradesh state of southern India - population 267,739 (agglomeration 320,619) (2001 census). ... Kurwai is a town in Vidisha District of the state of Madhya Pradesh in central India. ... Before Indias independence, Palanpur was ruled by Navab, a Muslim ruler. ... A non-descript town lying in the present-day Indian state of Haryana, Pataudi was the seat of the non-salute Princely state of the same name. ... Rampur is a former princely state of India ruled by a Muslim Nawab. ... Sachin may refer to: Sachin Tendulkar (born 1973), Indian cricketer Sachin, Pas-de-Calais, a commune in France Sachin (princely state), India This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Tonk is a town in Rajasthan state, India. ... Bengal, known as Bôngo (Bengali: বঙ্গ), Bangla (বাংলা), Bôngodesh (বঙ্গদেশ), or Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশ) in Bangla, is a region in the northeast of South Asia. ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

The style for a Nawab dynasty's queen(s) (usually his consort, and Islam is polygamous) is Begum (not specific). Most of the Nawab dynasties were male primogenitures, although several ruling Begums of Bhopal were a notable exception. Bhopāl (भोपाल) is a city in central India. ...

Before the incorporation of India into the British Empire, Nawabs ruled the kingdoms of Awadh (or Oudh, encouraged by the British to shed the Mughal suzereignty and assume the imperial style of Badshah), Bengal, Arcot and Bhopal. The British Empire was, at one time, the foremost global power, and the most extensive empire in the history of the world. ... Awadh (also known to the British as Oudh) is a region in the center of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. ... Padishah, Badishah, or Badshah is a title sometimes applied to to a several historic monarchs, notably the rulers of Iran, the Ottoman Empire, and the Moghul Empire. ... Bengal, known as Bôngo (Bengali: বঙ্গ), Bangla (বাংলা), Bôngodesh (বঙ্গদেশ), or Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশ) in Bangla, is a region in the northeast of South Asia. ... Arcot is a city and metropolitan district in Vellore District of Tamil Nadu state in southern India. ... Bhopāl (भोपाल) is a city in central India. ...

A few of the Muslim rulers who were tributary to the Mughal emperors used other titles; the first Nizam of Hyderabad was given the alternative title Nizam ul Mulk, usually translated as Governor of the [Mughal] Kingdom. Nizam-ul-Mulk was the title of the ruler of Hyderabad state from 1724 to 1949. ... Hyderabad and Berar, 1903 Hyderābād was an autonomous princely state of south-central India from 1724 until 1948, ruled by a hereditary Nizam, and an Indian state from 1948 to 1956. ... Abu Ali al-Hasan al-Tusi Nizam al-Mulk (نظام الملك، ابو علي الحسن الطوسي in Arabic; 1018 - 14 October 1092) was a celebrated Persian vizier of the Seljuk Turks. ...

Ruling Nawabs

First we list the Nawabs still in power at the independence of India viz. Pakistan, then those whose princely states had ceased to exist before. A princely state is any state under the reign of a prince, both terms being taken in the broad sense. ...

Families ruling when acceding to India

• Nawab Babi of Balasinor
• the former Nawabs of ArcotCarnatic, restyled Princes of Arcot
• Nawab of Banganapalle * Masulipatam
• Nawab of Baoni
• Nawabs and Begums of Bhopal
• Nawab of Cambay=Kambay
• Nawab of Dujana
• Nawab of Farrukhabad
• Nawab of Jaora
• Nawab Sahib of Junagadh
• Nawabs of Kurwai
• Nawab of Maler Kotla
• Nawab of Muhammadgar
• Nawab Sahib of Palanpur
• Nawab of Pataudi
• Nawab of Pathari
• Nawab of Radhanpur
• Nawab of Rampur
• Nawab of Sachin
• Nawab of Savanur
• Nawab of Tonk, India

The Nawabs of Arcot trace their line back to 2nd Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattāb Nawab ZULFIQAR ALI KHAN 1692/1703 Nawab DAUD KHAN 1703/1710 Nawab MUHAMMED SAADATULLAH KHAN I 1710/1732 Nawab DOST ALI KHAN 1732/1740 (grandnephew), died 1740. ... Banganapalle is a town in Andhra Pradesh state, southern India. ... The term Begum of Bhopal may refer to any of several ladies who ruled the princely state of Bhopal in Central India in the 19th and 20th centuries. ... Cambay, also known as Khambhat, is a town in Gujarat state, India. ... Farrukhabad is one of the Districts of State of Uttar Pradesh in India. ... Jaora is a town in Ratlam district of Malwa, which had been a princely state before independence. ... Junagadh is a city, in Junagadh District, in the Indian state of Gujarat. ... Kurwai is a town in Vidisha District of the state of Madhya Pradesh in central India. ... Malerkotla is a town in the present-day Indian state of Punjab, which was the seat of the eponymous princely state during the British Raj. ... Before Indias independence, Palanpur was ruled by Navab, a Muslim ruler. ... A non-descript town lying in the present-day Indian state of Haryana, Pataudi was the seat of the non-salute Princely state of the same name. ... Pathari is a formerly princely state of India, administratively under the Bhopal Agency subdivision of the Central India Agency. ... Radhanpur is a town in the Banaskantha District of North Gujarat, India. ... Rampur is a former princely state of India ruled by a Muslim Nawab. ... Sachin may refer to: Sachin Tendulkar (born 1973), Indian cricketer Sachin, Pas-de-Calais, a commune in France Sachin (princely state), India This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Tonk is a town in Rajasthan state, India. ...

Families ruling when acceding to Pakistan (including present Bangladesh)

• Nawab of Amb
• Bahawalpur
• Nawabs of Teri, ( Kohat )
• Naibs ( Khans ) of Seni Gumbat, ( Kohat )
• Nawab of Padamdi (Faridpur, Bangladesh)

Amb was a small princely state in what is today the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. ... Hawick (pronounced hoick) is a town in the unitary council region of Scottish Borders in the south of Scotland. ... Kohat is a town in central North West Frontier Province in Pakistan. ... Kohat is a town in central North West Frontier Province in Pakistan. ... Faridpur is a district in central Bangladesh. ...

Former dynasties which became political pensioners

• Padshah-i-Oudh, formerly Nawab Wazir of Awadh, i.e. Nawab of the rich province and imperial Wasir of all Mughal India, both hereditary
• Nawabs of Bengal, as Nawabs of Murshidabad
• Nawab of Surat

A pension is a steady income paid to a person (usually after retirement). ... Awadh (also known to the British as Oudh) is a region in the center of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. ... A Vizier (وزير, sometimes also spelled Vizir, Wasir, Wazir, Wesir, Wezir - grammatical vowel changes are common in many oriental languages) is an oriental, originally Persian, term for a high-ranking political (and sometimes religious) advisor or Minister, often to a Muslim monarch such as a Caliph, Amir, Malik (king) or Sultan. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Murshidabad is a district of the state of West Bengal, India. ... Surat (Gujarati:સુરત) is a port city in the Indian state of Gujarat and administrative headquarters of the Surat District. ...

Other Nawabs

Personal Nawabs

The title nawab was also awarded as a personal distinction by the paramount power, similarly to a British life peerage. See: Gakhars The Gakhars (who hold the title Kayani), are by far the most interesting clan and are essentially the gentlemen and aristocracy of the (Rawalpindi) district. ...

Nawab as a court rank

• At the court of Persia's Shahanshahs of the imperial Qajar dynasty, precedence for non-members of the dynasty was organised in eight protocollary classes, generally coupled to various offices and qualities; the highest of these, styled nawab, was usually resered for minor princes, while the six next classes (Shakhs-i-Awwal, Janab, Amir or Khan, 'Ali Jah Muqarrab, 'Ali Jah, 'Ali Sha'an) were awarded to various ministers, officers, commanders, Muslim clergy etcetera, the eight and lowest, 'Ali Qadir, even to guild masters and the likes.
• Nawab was also the rank title -again, not an office- of a much lower class of Muslim nobles -in fact retainers- at the court of the Nisam of Hyderabad and Berar State, ranking only above Khan bahadur and Khan, but under (in ascending order) Jang, Daula, Mulk, Umara and Jah; the equivalent for Hindu courtiers was Raja Bahadur.

Shananshah (Persian: شاهنشاه) (sometimes written Shahenshah, Shan-an-shah, or Shan-en-shah) was a title used by various rulers of Persia/Iran. ... The Qajar dynasty was the ruling family of Persia from 1796 to 1925. ... Emir (also sometimes rendered as Amir or Ameer, Arabic commander) is a title of nobility historically used in Islamic nations of the Middle East and North Africa. ... Khan (sometimes spelled as xan, han, Polish chan) is a title with many meanings, originally commander, leader or ruler, in Mongolian and Turkish. ... A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم) is an adherent of Islam. ... Hyderabad and Berar, 1903 Hyderābād was an autonomous princely state of south-central India from 1724 until 1948, ruled by a hereditary Nizam, and an Indian state from 1948 to 1956. ... Berar is a former province of British India, located in central India. ... Khan (sometimes spelled as xan, han, Polish chan) is a title meaning ruler in Mongolian and Turkish. ... The daily Jang () is the largest Urdu language newspaper of the world, simultaneously publishing from Pakistans main cities: Rawalpindi/Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Quetta and Multan; while it is being published from London (UK) as well and is circulated throughout Europe. ... Daula means state. ... Malik (الملك) is a word that means king in Arabic, also adopted in various other oriental languages, also in derived meanings. ... Jah (IPA: ) is the name commonly used for God in the religious Rastafari movement. ... A Raja (sometimes spelled Rajah) is a king, or princely ruler from the Kshatriya lineages. ...

Derived titles

Nawabzada

This style, adding the Persian suffix -zada which means son (or other male descendants; see other cases in Prince), (etymo)logically fits a Nawab's sons, but in actual practice various dynasties established other customs. The term prince (the female form is princess), from the Latin root princeps, when used for a member of the highest aristocracy, has several fundamentally different meanings - one generic, and several types of titles. ...

For example in Bahawalpur only the Nawab'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 surprising used the (hindi!) style Sahibzada before the personal name and only Khan Abassi behind. Bahawalpur is a city of Pakistan (1998 pop. ... Sahib (the female form is sahiba), from Arabic, originally friend, companion, from sahiba he accompanied, is a Hindi and Bengali word meaning sir, master or, primarily, lord. ...

Elsewhere, rulers who were not styled nawab yet awarded a title nawabzada.

Nabob

For the war ship, see HMS Nabob; for the archiver program, NABOB

In colloquial usage in English (since 1612), adopted in other Western languages, the corrupted form nabob (never officially awarded, but homophononous with the Bengali pronunciation) was erroneously used in stead of Nawab, but also since 1764 to refer to commoners: a merchant leader of high social status and wealth, or a capitalist. It can also be used metaphorically for people who have a grandiose style or manner of speech, as in Spiro Agnew's famous dismissal of the press as "nattering nabobs of negativism". The USS Edisto (CVE-41) (originally AVG-41 then later ACV-41) was a Bogue-class escort aircraft carrier that was laid down 20 October 1942, launched 22 March 1943, transferred under Lend-Lease to the United Kingdom 7 September 1943 prior to her commissioning as the HMS Nabob (D77). ... NABOB was a joke file compression and archiving tool created by Thomas M. Tuerke (SysOp of Gravesend BBS) and Al Kalian (SysOp of Palladin BBS) at the height of the compression wars that resulted from the legal conflicts between ARC and Phil Katz. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Merchants function as professionals who deal with trade, dealing in commodities that they do not produce themselves, in order to produce profit. ... Social status is the standing, the honour or prestige attached to ones position in society. ... Wealth is an abundance of items of economic value, or the state of controlling or possessing such items, and encompasses money, real estate and personal property. ... In economics, a capitalist is someone who owns capital, presumably within the economic system of capitalism. ... Spiro Theodore Agnew (November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996), born Spiros Anagnostopoulos in Towson, Maryland, was the thirty-ninth Vice President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1973 under President Richard M. Nixon. ...

See also

• Arcot
• Awadh
• Bahawalpur
• Banganapalle
• Baoni
• Bengal
• Bhopal
• Cambay
• Jaora
• Junagadh
• Kalabagh
• Kurwai
• Palanpur (Pakistan)
• Pataudi
• Rampur
• Sachin
• Seni Gumbat
• Tanoli
• Teri
• Tonk

Arcot is a city and metropolitan district in Vellore District of Tamil Nadu state in southern India. ... Awadh (also known to the British as Oudh) is a region in the center of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. ... Bahawalpur is a city of Pakistan (1998 pop. ... Banganapalle is a town in Andhra Pradesh state, southern India. ... Bengal, known as Bôngo (Bengali: বঙ্গ), Bangla (বাংলা), Bôngodesh (বঙ্গদেশ), or Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশ) in Bangla, is a region in the northeast of South Asia. ... Bhopāl (भोपाल) is a city in central India. ... Cambay, also known as Khambhat, is a town in Gujarat state, India. ... Jaora is a town in Ratlam district of Malwa, which had been a princely state before independence. ... Junagadh is a city, in Junagadh District, in the Indian state of Gujarat. ... Kalabagh is situated in Mianwali district of Punjab on the bank of Indus River. ... Kurwai is a town in Vidisha District of the state of Madhya Pradesh in central India. ... Before Indias independence, Palanpur was ruled by Navab, a Muslim ruler. ... A non-descript town lying in the present-day Indian state of Haryana, Pataudi was the seat of the non-salute Princely state of the same name. ... Rampur is a former princely state of India ruled by a Muslim Nawab. ... Sachin may refer to: Sachin Tendulkar (born 1973), Indian cricketer Sachin, Pas-de-Calais, a commune in France Sachin (princely state), India This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... The Tanolis are a prominent and famous Muslim tribe residing mainly in the Mansehra Hazara district of NWFP Pakistan. ... Hawick (pronounced hoick) is a town in the unitary council region of Scottish Borders in the south of Scotland. ... Tonk has several meanings. ...

Sources and references

• Bengal Encyclopaedia
• Etymology OnLine
• RoyalArk- here Indian, see also Pakistan extensive genealogies on several dynasties
• WorldStatesmen conciser but more states