Kalb Ali Khan Explained

Nawab Kalb E Ali Khan Bahadur of Rampur
Titletext:His Highness, ‘Ali Jah, Farzand-i-Dilpazir-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia, Mukhlis ud-Daula, Nasir ul-Mulk, Amir ul-Umara, Haji, Nawab Khuld Ashiyan
Succession:Rampur
Reign:1865-1887
Predecessor:Nawab Muhammad Yusef Ali Khan Bahadur
Successor:Nawab Muhammad Mushtaq Ali Khan Bahadur
Reign1:1865-1887
Birth Date:1834
Death Date:23 March 1887
Death Place:Qila-E-Mualla, Rampur
Burial Place:Mausoleum of Hafiz Jamalullah
Full Name:Nawab Kalb E Ali Khan Bahadur Rohilla
Regnal Name:His Highness, ‘Ali Jah, Farzand-i-Dilpazir-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia, Mukhlis ud-Daula, Nasir ul-Mulk, Amir ul-Umara, Haji Nawab Sir Muhammad Kalb-i-‘Ali Khan Bahadur, Mustaid Jang, Nawab Khuld Ashiyan, Nawab of Rampur, GCSI, CIE
House:Rohilla (by Adoption)
Father:Nawab Muhammad Yusef Ali Khan
Mother:Nawab Firuz Un Nisa Begum Sahiba
Religion:Islam

Hajji Nawab Kalb Ali Khan Bahadur (1832  - 23 March 1887) was a Nawab of the princely state of Rampur from 1865 to 1887. Succeeding his father, Sir Nawab Yusef Ali Khan Bahadur, he continued his father's good works, expanding the Rampur library, constructing the Jama Masjid costing Rs.3 lakhs and encouraging the spread of education, irrigation, architecture, literature and art in general. A gifted ruler, Sir Kalb Ali Khan was highly literate in Arabic and Persian and patronised scholars from across India and the Islamic world. He was a member of John Lawrence's governance council from 1878 to his death, attended the Delhi Durbar of Queen Victoria and was granted a personal salute of 17-guns.

He was also an Urdu-language writer and essayist and poet of ghazals.[1]

He was succeeded at his death in 1887, aged 55, by his son, Muhammad Mushtaq Ali Khan Bahadur.

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  1. https://www.rekhta.org/authors/nawab-kalb-ali-khan/ Nawab Kalb Ali Khan