CHITRAL (Princely State)

(11 gun salute)

AREA: 12,950 km2 PRIVY PURSE: ??  ACCESSION:  28th July 1969
STATE: Pakistan (Frontier State) DYNASTY:  Katur  RELIGION:  Muslim
     
PRESENT RULER:  HH Mehtar MUHAMMED SAIF ul-MULK NASIR (1954/-)
born 1950, married HH Khonza Begum Ismat, grand-daughter of Nawab Mir MUHAMMED FARID KHAN of Amb, and has issue, 2 sons and 2 daughters.
  • Shahzada Fateh ul-Mulk Ali Nasir, born 27th November 1983.
  • Shahzada Hammad ul-mulk Nasir
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:  Founded in 1585 by SHAH KATUR, after whom the dynasty takes its name. He was purportedly a descendant of Genghis Khan. Feudatory to Badakshan 1634/1712. Rulers were...
  • Mehtar SANGALLI 1712/1745
  • Mehtar MUHAMMAD BEG -/-
  • ...... -/-
  • Mehtar FARAMARZ SHAH 1775/1790, Ruler of Yasin, died 1790.
  • Mehtar SHAH FAZL I 1790/1795
  • Mehtar SHAH FADL 1795/1798
  • Mehtar NAWAZ KHAN 1798/181? and 182?/-
  • Mehtar MUHTARAM SHAH III 181?/1818 and 1833/1837
  • Mehtar AMAN al-MULK I 182?/1833
  • Mehtar MUHTARAM SHAH III 1833/1837 
  • Mehtar SHAH AFZAL II 1837/1853, married and had issue. He died 1853.
    • Mehtar MUHTARAM SHAH IV (qv)
    • Mehtar AMAN al-MULK II (qv)
    • Mehtar SHIR AFZAL KHAN (qv)
  • Mehtar MUHTARAM SHAH IV 1853/1857, died 1857.
  • Mehtar AMAN al-MULK II 1857/1892, married (amongst others), a daughter of Asmar Khan, an Afghan Prince, and had issue, about 25 sons and 47 daughters. He died 30th August 1892.
    • HH Mehtar Sir SHUJA al-MULK (by the Afghani Princess)(qv)
    • Mitarjao Bahram al-Mulk, married and had issue. He died 1892.
      • Shahzada Eram al-Mulk
    • Mitarjao Shah Mulk, died 1892.
    • Mitarjao Wazir al-Mulk, died 1892.
    • Mehtar AFZAL al-MULK (qv)
    • Mehtar NIZAM al-MULK (qv)
    • Mehtar AMIR al-MULK (by the Afghani Princess) (qv)
    • Mitarjao Amin al-Mulk
    • Daughter, married Miangul Abdul Khaliq of Swat.
  • Mehtar AFZAL al-MULK 1892/1892 (August to December), died 1st December 1892.
  • Mehtar SHIR AFZAL KHAN 1892 (December)
  • Mehtar NIZAM al-MULK 1892/1895, died 1st January 1895 at Broz near Chitral City.
  • Mehtar AMIR al-MULK 1895 (January to September), born 1878, died 1924.
  • HH Mehtar Sir SHUJA al-MULK 1895/1936, born 1881, C.I.E. [cr.1903], K.C.I.E. [cr.1919], married 4 wives and had 4 concubines, by whom he had issue, 15 sons and 5 daughters. He died 1936.
    • Major HH Mehtar Sir MUHAMMED NASIR al-MULK (qv)
    • Shahzada Hisam al-Mulk, Governor of Drosh.
    • Shahzada Mata al-Mulk
    • Shahzada Khushwakht al-Mulk, born 1913, married and has issue.
      • Shahzada Siraj ul-Mulk
      • Shahzada Sekander ul-Mulk
    • HH Mehtar MUHAMMED MUZAFFAR al-MULK I (qv)
    • Shahzada Burhan ud-Din, born 1915, died July 1995 or 1996.
  • Major HH Mehtar Sir MUHAMMED NASIR al-MULK 1936/1943, born 29th September 1897, K.C.I.E., married 1stly (....), married 2ndly, 1939 daughter of Nawab SHAH JAHAN KHAN of Dhir and had issue, 2 daughters. He died 29th July 1943 in Chitral.
    • Daughter (by 1st wife), married June 1949, HH Mehtar SAIF ar-RAHMAN of Chitral (qv)
  • HH Mehtar MUHAMMED MUZAFFAR al-MULK 1943/1949, married the daughter of Sayyid Lais Shahzada and had issue. He died 1949.
    • HH Mehtar SAIF ar-RAHMAN (qv)
    • Shahzada Asad ar-Rahman
  • HH Mehtar SAIF ar-RAHMAN 1949/1954, married June 1949, the daughter of Major HH Mehtar Sir MUHAMMED NASIR al-MULK of Chitral (see above), and has issue. He died October 1954
    • HH Mehtar MUHAMMED NASIR SAIF ul-MULK (qv)
  • HH Mehtar MUHAMMED NASIR SAIF ul-MULK (see above)
 
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