Muhammad Farid Khan
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Muhammad Farid Khan Tanoli | |||||
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Nawab Nawab Shahib | |||||
11th last Nawab of Kingdom of Amb | |||||
Reign | 1936–1969 | ||||
Born | Amb, British Raj | 1 January 1904||||
Died | Darband, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | 28 July 1969||||
Burial | 1969 | ||||
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Dynasty | Tanoli[1] | ||||
Father | Muhammad Khan Zaman Khan | ||||
Religion | Sunni Islam | ||||
Military career | |||||
Allegiance | British Raj , Pakistan | ||||
Rank | Nawab | ||||
Battles/wars | Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948 , Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 |
Nawab Sir Muhammad Farid Khan Tanoli KBE was the last ruling Nawab of the princely state of Amb, from 1936 till 1969. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1946 New Year Honours list.[2] A small state in a subsidiary alliance with British India until 1947, when the Nawab acceded to Pakistan, in 1958 Amb was reported to have an area of 590 square miles and a population of 48,656.[3]
After 1947
After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, Amb became fully independent, and remained so for the rest of 1947, but on 31 December the Nawab acceded his state to Pakistan.[4]
Nawab Farid khan Tanoli's contributions to the Pakistan movement were acknowledged by the Quaid e Azam.[5][6]
References
- ^ "Ancestor Database - Tano Khel -.-> تنو خېل". Archived from the original on 26 September 2015.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "No. 37407". The London Gazette. 28 December 1945. p. 57.
- ^ Amiya Ranjan Mukherjee, Current Affairs (1958), p. 337
- ^ Z. H. Zaidi, CHRONOLOGY OF ACCESSION OF STATES TO PAKISTAN in Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah Papers: The States (Quaid-i-Azam Papers Project, 1993), p. xxxix
- ^ Mahomed Ali Jinnah, Z. H. Zaidi, Quaid-I-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah Papers: First Series, Volume III: On the Threshold of Pakistan, July 1–25, 1947 (Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 978-969-8156-07-7, 1120 pp.)
- ^ Sana Haroon, Frontier of faith: Islam in the Indo-Afghan borderland (Columbia University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-231-70013-9, 254 pp.)
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