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Abida Sultan. Princess Suraya Jah, Nawab Gowhar-i-Taj, Abida Sultan Begum Sahiba (28 August 1913 – 11 May 2002) was the eldest daughter of Hamidullah Khan, the last Nawab of the Bhopal state, and his wife Begum Maimoona Sultan. Life and family. Bhopal royal family.
May 21, 2019 · Abida Sultan’s son, Shahryar Khan, a former career diplomat in Pakistan, has carried on this family tradition by writing an authoritative account of the dynasty, The Begums of Bhopal.
May 12, 2002 · KARACHI, May 11: Princess Abida Sultaan, the heir apparent of the Bhopal state, who had migrated to Pakistan, died here on Saturday morning after a protracted illness. She was 89. She was buried...
Biography. Princess Abida Sultan was the eldest daughter of Hamidullah Khan, the last Nawab of Bhopal. She was also the heiress to the throne of Bhopal. However, she renounced her rights to the throne in 1950 to become a resident of Pakistan.
Mar 12, 2023 · The autobiography of Princess Abida Sultaan, the heir-apparent to a prominent Indian princely state who chose to migrate to Pakistan, documents the activities of a princess who rebelled against social conventions to take up an active public role, before and after partition in 1947.
Abida Sultan, the first female Indian Muslim pilot was the eldest daughter of the Last Nawab of the princely state of Bhopal, Haji Nawab Hafiz also known as Hamidullah Khan. Abida was...
Jul 8, 2004 · Moving and extraordinarily inspirational memoir of the feisty Begum Abida Sultaan, the heir to the Bhopal Nawabs who decided to move to the newly created Pakistan during the partition of the country.
