Mansur Ali Khan
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Nawab Sayyid Mansur Ali Khan (29 October 1830-4 November 1884) was Nawab of Bengal until his abdication in 1880, whereupon he renounced his titles and position as Nawab of Bengal. Bengal had been already occupied by the British for the last 150 years, so he was nothing more than a puppet of the British.

Biography

Marriage and children

Had total five wives:

1. Shams i Jehan Begum, died 1905
2. Malika Zamani
3. Shah-un nisa
4. Sarah Vennell (English woman)
5. Julia Lewis (English woman)

Mansur Ali Khan left a total of 101 children, of whom 19 sons and 20 daughters survived him.

Death and afterward

Mansur Ali Khan died in 1884 from cholera. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Nawab Sayyid Hassan Ali Mirza Khan Bahadur as Nawab of Murshidabad. His great-grandson Iskander Mirza (through his son Bahadur Syed Iskander Ali and his son Mohammad Fateh Ali) became first president of Pakistan in 1956.

References

• http://www.uq.net.au/~zzhsoszy/ips/b/bengal.html