Wasif Ali Mirza Khan - Offspring and Others

Offspring and Others

The following is a list of the children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren of Sir Wasif Ali Mirza:

• Sayyid Waris Ali Mirza Bahadur (s/o Faghfur Jahan Begum), who succeeded Sir Wasif Ali Mirza as the next Nawab of Murshidabad.

• Sayyid Fatehyab Ali Mirza Bahadur (s/o Faghfur Jahan Begum)

• Sayyid Kazem Ali Mirza Bahadur (s/o Faghfur Jahan Begum). He was born at Murshidabad on October 31, 1911 and was the son of Nadir Jahan Begum. He was educated at the Nawab Bahadur Institution in Murshidabad and St. Xavier’s College in Calcutta. He was also the manager of the Murshidabad Wakf Estates (from 1939 till 1947) and chaired the Murshidabad Municipality and President of the Murshidabad District Sch Bord in 1956. He was also the MLA for Murshidabad South-West Bengal (1937-1947) and also for West Bengal (1947-1952), for Lalgola (1952-1967) and Murshidabad (1967-1977). Kazem was the Deputy Minister for Cottage & Small Scale Industries, and for Public Works (1962-1967), MP of the sixth Lok Sabha for Murshidabad (1977-1980). He married Husun Agaz Ara Begum, the elder daughter of his paternal uncle, Iskander Kadir Sahibzada Sayyid Nasir Ali Mirza Bahadur (the younger brother of Wasif Ali), by his wife, Muhammadi Begum and Hashmat Feroz Najam Ara Begum, who was also the younger daughter of Iskander Kadir Sahibzada Sayyid Nasir Ali Mirza Bahadur, by his wife, Muhammadi Begum. Kazem Ali Mirza died at Calcutta on July 14, 1988 and was survived by 3 sons and 7 daughters as follows:

a) Sayyid Shahinshah Ali Mirza (s/o Feroz Nazam Ara Begum).

b) Sayyid Shariyar Ali Mirza (s/o Feroz Nazam Ara Begum).

c) Sayyid Wasif Ali Mirza.

d) Kishwar Jahan Begum (d/o Husun Agaz Ara Begum).

e) Anwar Jahan Begum (Mussarat Jahan Masuma Begum) (d/o Husun Agaz Ara Begum). She married Sayyid Muhammad Hashim Mirza, the son of Sayyid Farrukh Mirza. She had two sons and one daughter as follows:

I) Sayyid Asad Ali Mirza (Syed Asad Ali Mirza).

II) Sayyid Mahdi Ali Mirza (Syed Mehdi Ali Mirza).

III) Zainab Mirza (Zainab Gardner). She has one daughter as follows:

A) Sara Nicole Gardner. She studies at Mill Hill County High School.

e) Raffat Jahan Begum (d/o Husun Agaz Ara Begum).

f) Nadir Jahan Begum.

g) Sarfaraz Jahan Begum.

h) Nighat Jahan Begum.

i) Naheed Jahan Begum.

(One of these above mentioned daughters married a man named, Sayyid Muhammad Hashim Mirza, the son of Kaikaus Kadir Sahibzada Sayyid Farhad Mirza Bahadur.

• Sayyid Imran Ali Mirza Bahadur (s/o Faghfur Jahan Begum)

• Sayyid Said Ali Mirza Bahadur. He died at a very young age.

• Sayyid Sajjad Ali Mirza Bahadur (s/o Sugra Khanum). He was born in 1950 and assumed the claims of his elder half brother after the latter’s death in November 1998 and pursued it in court, but failed to establish one before he died. He married Afshan Begum and died before 2006 and was survived by two daughters.

• Husna Ara Begum (Mummio Begum Sahiba). She was born in 1900. She married Nawab Ali Haider Khan, elder son of Nawab Amjad Ali Khan of the Prithimpassa Nawab Family and leader of the Independent Muslim Party (1937-38), Minister of Agriculture (1939-41) and Minister of Power and Water Development (1942-46) in Assam. Husna Ara Begum died in 1982. They had three children as follows:

a) Ali Safdar Khan

b) Syed-un-nisa Begum

c) Ali Sarwar Khan

• Safia Banu Ara Begum. She married Baqir Ali Khan.

• Qamarat Ara Begum.

• Hashmat-un-nisa Begum. She married Sayyid Muhammad Sadiq Ali Mirza (d. 1959), son of Sayyid Zaigham Mirza, by his wife, Khurshid un-nisa Begum Sahiba, (daughter of Nawab Hassan Ali Mirza Khan Bahadur of Murshidabad. She Hashmat-un-nisa died at Calcutta in 1995, having had issue.

• Jamal Ara Begum (fulll sister of Husna Ara). She married Nawab Ali Asghar Khan(d. at Dacca on April 6, 1984), younger son of Nawab Amjad Ali Khan of the Prithimpassa Nawab Family and MLA India 1946. Jamal Ara Begum died at Dacca on March 22, 1984 and was survived by a son.

• A daughter. (d/o Dildar Begum). She married Muhammad Ali Khan.

(Note: " • " Denotes Wasif Ali's children, "a, b, c..." Denotes Wasif Ali's grandchildren, "i, ii, iii...." Denotes Wasif Ali's great grandchildren and "A, B, C....." Denotes Wasif Ali great great grandchildren)