Muhammad Farid Khan
| Muhammad Farid Khan Tanoli | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nawab Nawab Shahib | |||||
11th last Nawab of Kingdom of Amb | |||||
| Reign | 1936–1969 | ||||
| Born | 1 January 1904 Amb, British Raj | ||||
| Died | 28 July 1969 Darband, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | ||||
| 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, GBE , GCVO was the last ruling Nawab of the princely state of Amb, from 1936 till 1969. In 1947 he acceded his state to the Dominion of Pakistan. A small state in a subsidiary alliance with British India, in 1958 Amb was reported to have an area of 590 square miles and a population of 48,656.[2]
After 1947[edit]
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.[3]
Nawab Farid khan Tanoli's contributions to the Pakistan movement were acknowledged by the Quaid e Azam.[4][5]
References[edit]
- ^ "Ancestor Database - Tano Khel -.-> تنو خېل". Archived from the original on 26 September 2015.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ 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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