Muhammad Khan Prince Signed Royalty Document State Tonk Royal Seal Mughal Empire

Description: LOT-G250. For your consideration is an exceedingly rare and historically important original antique c.1834-1864 Princely Ruler Muhammad Wazir Khan Signed Royal Manuscript Document. Royal document is original. Paper type is laid / rag. Condition is original. Indian Royalty manuscript document measures approximately 6.75" x 12.75". Royal privy seal of Muhammad Khan, Princely State of Tonk. Museum quality. Content untranslated. Guaranteed authentic. Muhammad Wazir Khan (reigned 18341864) was the second ruler of the princely state of Tonk (in the present day Rajasthan state of India). Tonk He was the son of Muhammad Amir Khan, whom he succeeded. During the Indian Rebellion of 1857, he allied himself with the British and repulsed rebels. Tonk was a Princely State of India at the time of the British Raj. The town of Tonk, which was the capital of the state, had a population of 273,201 in 1901. The town was surrounded by a wall and boasted a mud fort. It had a high school, the Walter hospital for women, under a matron, and a separate hospital for men. It has a bridge on river Banas. Amir Khan was originally enlisted by the Holkar dynasty in 1806. Tonk and the surrounding regions were captured from Jaipur State and rewarded to Amir Khan for his services. In 1817, the British acknowledged Amir Khan as the ruler of Tonk on the condition that he disbanded his army. The army of Amir Khan consisted of 52 battalions of infantry, 15,000 Pashtun cavalry, and 150 artillery. Amir Khan surrendered on the condition that the British enlisted his men and buy his artillery. Rampura and Aligarh were presented as gift by the British to Amir Khan for his cooperation. It was the only princely state of Rajasthan with a Muslim ruling dynasty. Nawab (Balochi: ; Arabic: ; Bengali: /; Hindi: ; Punjabi (Gurmukhi): ; Persian, Punjabi (Shahmukhi), Sindhi, Urdu: ), also spelled Nawaab, Navaab, Navab, Nowab, Nabob, Nawaabshah, Nawabshah or Nobab, is a Royal title indicating a sovereign ruler, often of a South Asian state, in many ways comparable to the western title of Prince. The relationship of a Nawab to the Emperor of India has been compared to that of the Kings of Saxony to the German Emperor. In earlier times the title was ratified and bestowed by the reigning Mughal emperor to semi-autonomous Muslim rulers of subdivisions or princely states in the Indian subcontinent loyal to the Mughal Empire, for example the Nawabs of Bengal. The title is common among Muslim rulers of South Asia as an equivalent to the title Maharaja. "Nawab" usually refers to males and literally means Viceroy; the female equivalent is "Begum" or "Nawab Begum". The primary duty of a Nawab was to uphold the sovereignty of the Mughal emperor along with the administration of a certain province. The title of "nawabi" was also awarded as a personal distinction by the paramount power, similar to a British peerage, to persons and families who ruled a princely state for various services to the government of British India. In some cases, the titles were also accompanied by jagir grants, either in cash revenues and allowances or land-holdings. During the British Raj, some of the chiefs, or sardars, of large or important tribes were also given the title, in addition to traditional titles already held by virtue of chieftainship. The term "Zamindari" was originally used for the subahdar (provincial governor) or viceroy of a subah (province) or regions of the Mughal empire.

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