Background
Sayyid Murtaza Ali Khan Bahadur was born on 22 November 1923 at the Rafat Mahal, Khasbagh Palace in Rampur, the eldest son of Shia Nawabzada (Crown Prince) Raza Ali Khan Bahadur.
Sayyid Murtaza Ali Khan Bahadur was born on 22 November 1923 at the Rafat Mahal, Khasbagh Palace in Rampur, the eldest son of Shia Nawabzada (Crown Prince) Raza Ali Khan Bahadur.
He was educated at the Doon School in Dehradun, then at Wellington College in Britain and at Street.Stephen"s College in New Delhi.
At the time, Murtaza"s grandfather Hamid Ali Khan Bahadur was the Nawab. In 1943, Murtaza was commissioned into the British Indian Army and served as an aide-de-camp to the Commander-in-Chief, India, General (later Field-Marshal) Sir Claude Auchinleck. He was promoted to Captain in 1946 and in that year was made the Brigadier of the Rampur State Forces.
Also that year, Murtaza was appointed an Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire. From 1946 until Independence, Murtaza served as the Minister of the Army for Rampur State and as the Minister for the Household, Education and Public Works until 1949 when Rampur State formally merged with India.
Following the death of his father in 1966, Murtaza succeeded as titular Nawab of Rampur. From 1969 until 1971, he served as a member in the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly, as well as an Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha.
In 1971, the Indira Gandhi regime stripped Nawab Murtaza and his fellow former rulers of what little rights they had left, formally ending Nawab Murtaza"s standing as a monarch. 2.Nawabzadi Murtazai Begum Sahiba, who married Sayyid Intikhab Hyder Abedi and had three daughters: 1.
Sayyida Nargis Abedi 2.
Sayyida Nida Abedi 3. Sayyida Sana Abedi From 1966 to 1975, Nawab Murtaza served as President of the Raza Rampur Library Trust. He became a vice-chairman on its board of trustees in 1975 and remained in that capacity until his death on 8 February 1982 after a 16-year reign, aged 58.
1923-1930: Nawabzada Sayyid Murtaza Ali Khan.
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire)-1946.