Her mother, Sikander Begum, and her father ... dedicating herself to the upbringing of her two daughters-Sultan Jahan and Sulaiman Jahan. Sulaiman, the younger of the two, died of smallpox ...

Sultan Jahan Begum In North India ... to crown his young wife Qudsia till her daughter Sikandar came of age. Sikandar Begum’s husband too died in 1844, and she proved to be a competent ruler ...

Qudsia Begum (ruling from 1819-1837) was succeeded by her daughter Sikandar (1847-1868), followed by Shah Jahan Begum (1868-1901) and Sultan Jahan Begum (1901-1926). Their focus was on building a ...

As the only surviving child of the Nawab of Bhopal, Sultan Jahan was proclaimed as heiress apparent to the Bhopal musnaid following the death of her grandmother, Sikander Begum and her mother’s ...

Since she was a minor then, her mother Sikandar Begum wielded power as the regent. Shah Jahan retained the throne for 16 years till 1860, when her mother was recognised by the British as a ruler ...

Firstly, at the tender age of eight years on the death of her father Nawab Jahangir Mohammad Khan in 1844 and secondly on death of her mother Nawab Sikander ... Sultan Jahan Begum due to her ...

His post required him to attend many official functions, and at one of these, he and his wife Ada were introduced to Her Highness The Nawab Sultan Jahan Begum (1858-1930), who ruled Bhopal from ...

Aware of the disdain in which she was held by members of the ruling clan, Princess Aftab Jahan—the Junior Begum of Bhopal—moved to England in 1961, barely months after the death of her husband ...