KALAT (Princely State)

(19 gun salute)

 
AREA:  141,673 km2 ACCESSION:  14th October 1955
RELIGION:  Muslim (Sunni) STATE:  Pakistan (Baluchistan)
REVENUE:  1,533,000Rs POPULATION: 150,000 (1892)
CAPITAL:  Kalat Town DYNASTY:  Kambarani (Ahmadzai segment)
   
PRESENT RULER:  HH Beglar Begi Mir AGHA SULEIMAN JAN , Wali of Kalat (1998/-)
born about 1967. 
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:  Founded in 1638, the state acceded to Pakistan on 31st March 1948 and ceased to exist on 14th October 1955. Rulers were...

  • Mir HASAN KHAN MIRWARI 1638/1666
  • Mir AHMED KHAN 1666/1695
  • Mir MEHRAB KHAN I 1695
  • Mir SAMANDER KHAN 1695/1714
  • Mir ABDULLAH KHAN 1714/1734
  • Mir Beglar Begi MUHABAT KHAN 1734/1749, he was granted the title of Beglar Begi by Shahanshah Nadir Shah in 1739.
  • Mir Beglar Begi HUSAIN NASIR KHAN I 1749/1794, died 1794.
  • Mir Beglar Begi MAHMUD KHAN I 1794/1831
  • Mir Beglar Begi MEHRAB KHAN II 1831/1839, died 1869.
  • Mir Beglar Begi SHAH NAWAZ KHAN 1839/1840
  • Mir Beglar Begi HUSAIN NASIR KHAN II 1840/1857
  • HH Beglar Begi Mir Sir MUHAMMED KHUDADAD KHAN (brother) 1857/1863 and 1864/1893, born 1838 (#1), G.C.S.I.
  • HH Beglar Begi Mir SHER DIL KHAN 1863/1864, died May 1864.
  • HH Beglar Begi Mir Wali Sir MAHMUD KHAN II 1893/1931, born 1864, G.C.I.E. [cr.1894], C.I.E. [cr.1878], died 3rd November 1931.
  • HH Beglar Begi Nawab Bahadur Mir MUHAMMED AZAM JAN KHAN 1931/1933, married and had issue. He died 10th September 1933.
    • Abdul Karim Baloch, youngest son, educated in Karachi, served as the governor of Makran province until March 1948, led the first Baloch national resistance against the military occupation of Pakistan, arrested and imprisoned in June 1948, founded Ustman Gal (People’s Party) and took part in the formation of the National Awami Party, he worked as the head of the branch of the ‘Sindhi, Baloch and Pakhtun front’ in Balochistan. He died 1986.
  • Capt. HH Beglar Begi Mir Sir AHMED YAR KHAN (1904-1979)Capt. HH Beglar Begi Mir Sir AHMED YAR KHAN 1933/1979, born 1904, Khan-e A`zam of the Baluchistan States Union 1952/1955, died 1979.
  • HH Beglar Begi Mir DAUD JAN 1979/1998, died January 1998.
    • HH Beglar Begi Mir AGHA SULEIMAN JAN (qv)
    • Khan Jawad Ali Khan, born 1974 in London, a practising barrister.
  • HH Beglar Begi Mir AGHA SULEIMAN JAN (see above)
 
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 , p.225