Khan Bahadur Raja Jahandad Khan

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Khan Bahadur Raja Jahandad Khan, CIE (1843–1906) was an Indian politician and Chief of Gakhars and a descendant of Sultan Sarang Khan, King of Potohar.

Raja Jahandad took the title of Khan Bahadur on 24 May 1881 and the Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) on 1 January 1904.

Recognition[]

Khan was invested with the gold Kaisar-i-Hind Medal by the Viceroy of India, Lord Hardinge, in recognition of the many years of service he had so loyally given the British Raj in India.

Raja Jahandad Khan remained Assistant Commissioner, Punjab. He was sent as an ambassador of the British Government of India to Afghanistan to congratulate Amir Habibullah Khan of Kabul.

Family[]

As a young man, Raja Jahandad inherited the Khanpur (NWFP) estate containing 84 villages from his father Sultan Raja Haider Bukhsh. Khanpur estate was founded by Fateh Khan son of Said Khan probably in or around 1597. At that time, the estate consisted of 225 villages.

Raja Jahandad Khan married the daughter of the Afghan Amir Sher Ali Khan and had three sons - Captain SultanRaja Haider Zaman (MBE, Delhi Durbar Medal, Dehli Coronation Medal, Chairman District board Hazara); Raja Manochehar Khan (MLA NWFP Assembly 1937) and Raja Safdar Jhang. His grandsons include Sultan Raja Rukan Zaman former MLA Twice, Raja Sikander Zaman (Ex- CM NWFP), (Sultan Raja Rukan zaman was active in Pakistan freedom movement and he was given the medal of independence for his services for Pakistan movement. His medal was received by his son Sultan Raja Erij Zaman in Peshawar by Gen.Muhammad Zia ul Haq in 1986, Sultan Raja Rukan Zaman died in 1963 in a car Accident at age of 42years. His descendants are still styled as Chiefs of the Gakhars and hold considerable influence in parts of the Punjab and KPK, Sultan Raja Erij Zaman died from Heart disease. After his death, his son Sultan Raja Sheraz Haider Zaman is the current Ghakhars chief and his coronation ceremony was held in Khanpur as Chief of Ghakhars tribe on 11 December 2017 performed by Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Peer sahab Golra Sharif Nizam ud deen Jami and attended by a majority of Ghakhars tribe and dignitaries from all over Pakistan.

External links[]

• Rawalpindi Gazette (photos of text History of Gakhars)
• Indian Princely States
• Lethbridge, Sir Roper; Golden Book of India
• The India List and India Office List for 1905 by Great Britain, India Office
• Watson, H.D.; The Gazetteer of Hazara District 1907
• Who is Who of Princely States in Indian Subcontinent