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 Indian Empire that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule, subject to ...

in India, established in 1804 during the East India Company rule in India. The state formed a part of the Delhi Territory in the Ceded and Conquered Provinces. 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 family of actors and erstwhile nawabs of the former princely state of Pataudi, from which they take their name. The first nawab was Faiz Talab Khan, an ethnic Pashtun from the Sarbani tribe of Kandahar, Afghanis ...

History

The state of Pataudi was established in 1804 by the

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, when Faiz Talab Khan, an Afghan Muslim

Pashtun Pashtuns (, , ; ps, پښتانه, ), also known as Pakhtuns or Pathans, are an Iranian ethnic group who are native to the geographic region of Pashtunistan in the present-day countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan. They were historically r ...

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, shar ...

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

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, 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 W ...

.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 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

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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 was a hotel for some time, but is now owned privately by Saif Ali Khan, the current patriarch of the family.

Rulers

Rulers bore the title of the

Nawab 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, ...

. * 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 (1952–1971) (Title abolished in

1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclip ...

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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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