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Fateh Naseeb Khan

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Fateh Naseeb Khan
BornAlwar State, British India
AllegianceAlwar State
Service / branchAlwar State Forces
Imperial Service Troops
Years of service1904–1933
RankMajor General
Commands
Commander-in-chief of Alwar State Forces
Officer-in-Charge of Sariska Hunting Reserve
Army Minister of Alwar (Member Alwar State Council)
Battles / warsWorld War I
Third Anglo-Afghan War
AwardsOrder of the British Empire
Khan Bahadur (title)
Tazimi

Khan Bahadur Maj.Gen. Fateh Naseeb Khan, OBE KB (1888–1933), was the Commander-in-chief of Alwar State Forces. He was a close confidant and trusted aide of Maharaja Jai Singh Prabhakar Bahadur, who was the Maharaja of Alwar State. He participated in World War I.[1]

Background and family

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He belonged to a Khanzada Muslim Rajput family. He was a descendant of Raja Nahar Khan, who was a Rajput ruler of Mewat.

He had six sons namely, Sub Maj (R) Abdul Majeed Khan (IST), SP (R) Abdul Waheed Khan (FIA), Maj (R) Muhammad Iqbal Khan (PR), Dr Muhammad Allahdad Khan (PARC), Lt Colonel Malik Niaz Ahmad Khan (PA) and Prof Dr Khursheed Alam Khan (KU). After the Partition of India, they emigrated to Pakistan following the religious violence in India in 1947, and settled in Hyderabad, Pakistan.

State Service

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References

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  1. ^ "Alwar, Hh Raj Rishi Shri Sewai Sir Jey Singhji Veerendra Shiromani Dev, Bharat Dharam Prabhakar, Maharaj of, (1882–19 May 1937), Col. in British army, 1919; General in Chief of the Alwar State Forces", Who Was Who, Oxford University Press, 1 December 2007, retrieved 14 June 2021
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Military offices
Preceded by
Daud Khan
Commander-in-Chief of Alwar State Forces
1930 – 1933
Succeeded by