Faizullah Khan
Nawab Faizullah Khan (c. 1730 – 17 July 1794) was the first Nawab of the Rampur State. He was the son of Ali Mohammed Khan, a Jat convert who had led the Rohillas and established the Kingdom of Rohilkhand.[1][2][3] Following the defeat of the Rohillas in the First Rohilla War, the Kingdom of Rohilkhand was cut down, and the British forces installed Faizullah as the first princely ruler of Rampur.[4]
Faizullah would rule Rampur from 1774 until his death in 1794. He would be succeeded by his eldest son, Muhammad Ali Khan.
Legacy
Faizullah initiated the Rampur Raza Library, which stayed in his dynasty's control until the Indian government officially took over in 1975.[5] The library was filled with manuscripts and caligraphy, and quickly grew due to the Rohilla Nawabs giving patronage to skilled scholars, poets, and musicians.[6]
References
- ↑ Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society Volume 42. Pakistan Historical Society. 1994. p. 24.
Among the captives was one handsome Jat boy by the name of Prem Singh Nano. Da'ud Khan was so attracted towards him that he adopted him as his son, initiated him into the Islamic belief, and named him Ali Muhammad Nano. Later, when the boy reached adulthood, Daud Khan declared him as his successor. Thus began the pedigree of the Nawwabs of Rampur.
- ↑ Gupta, Hari Ram (1999) [1980]. History of the Sikhs. Vol. III: Sikh Domination of the Mughal Empire (1764–1803) (2nd rev. ed.). Munshiram Manoharlal. p. 11. ISBN 978-81-215-0213-9. OCLC 165428303. "The real founder of the Rohilla power was Ali Muhammad, from whom sprang the present line of the Nawabs of Rampur."
- ↑ Khan, Iqbal Ghani (2002). "Technology and the Question of Elite Intervention in Eighteenth-Century North India". In Barnett, Richard B. (ed.). Rethinking Early Modern India. Manohar Publishers & Distributors. p. 271. ISBN 978-81-7304-308-6. "Thus we witness the Ruhelas accepting an exceptionally talented non-Afghan, an adopted Jat boy, as their nawab, purely on the basis of his military leadership..."
- ↑ Khan, Mohammad Najmul Ghani (1918). Akhbar-us-Sanadeed, Vol. 1. Lucknow: Munshi Nawal Kishore. p. 599.
- ↑ Ministry of Culture (India) (2022). Annual Report 2021-22 (PDF) (Report). Government of India. p. 229. Retrieved May 18, 2023.
The world fame Rampur Raza Library was founded by Nawab Faizullah Khan in 1774. It was taken over by the Government of India in 1975 by an act of Parliament. It is functioning under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. Honorable Governor of Uttar Pradesh is the Chairman of the Rampur Raza Library Board.
- ↑ Partington, D. H. (1968). "Review of Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in Raza Library, Rampur, Imtiyāż 'Alī 'Arshī; A Descriptive Catalogue of the Fyzee Collection of Ismaili Manuscripts; Descriptive Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in Nigeria". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 88 (3): 589–592. doi:10.2307/596909. JSTOR 596909.