Genealogy of Nagar State

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Above: Coat of Arms of Nagar State. Like Hunza whose flag featured a lion holding the state flag in its mouth, Nagar's coat of arms featured a horse holding the state flag with its hands (front legs). 

The rulers of Nagar were officially called "Tham" which meant "King" in the local Burushaski language - a language isolate - but were known over time as "Mir" by foreigners. "Mir" is the Persian version of the Arabic title "Emir". The Royal House of Nagar was known as the House of Maghlot and was related by origin to rulers of Hunza State (House of Girkis) and the Rajas of Gilgit (House of Shah Malik). 

The story of the dynasty's origin connects it to the local Buddhist monarchs of Gilgit and Iranian noblemen fleeing the Rashidun conquest of Persia (Sassanid Empire). However, it is more of a family legend though that does not mean it does not contain a grain of truth at all. On the contrary the opposite might be true.

Notes: 
  • I was unable to find detailed genealogy of Nagar State, so I had to piece together the fragments found in my sources. If you have any more details or suggestions, you can contact me at nooraminnawab@gmail.com  
  • Chinese Turkestan is now called "Xinjinag" - officially "Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region"
  • Raja Shah Rais Khan of Gilgit and John Biddulph have both given additional names between Maghlot and his son Alidad - Shah Rais says Bulla Shah of Nagar was the great-grandfather of Shah Kamal Khan (essentially adding generations between Maghlot and Shah Kamal) while Biddulph mentions Maghlot --> Shamsher Ali --> Sultan Khan --> Fazl Khan --> Dawood Khan ---> Ali Dad Khan. However, Qudratullah Beg mentions he is using the more authentic narrations and so his word has been followed below.
The connection to local Buddhist monarchs is as follows:
Kesar
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Bagartham
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Agartham
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Sri Badad 
(aka. Shri Badat / Sri Badat)
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Nur Bakht Khatun 
(with whom we treat)

The connection with Iranian noblemen fleeing the Rashidun conquest of Persia is as follows:
  • N. - an unnamed Iranian nobleman had two sons who fled to Baltistan:
    • Abdul Ghani
    • Abul Faiz - m. the Queen of Baltistan (who ruled from Skardu) and had issue:
      • Yaqut Shah - m. and had issue, 2 sons:
        • Shah Murad 
        • Azar Jamshed (aka. Uzar Shamsher) - with whom we treat 
Sri Badat was a cannibal and tyrant. Because of this Azar Jamshed killed him. Azar Jamshed had also married Sri Badat's daughter Nur Bakht Khatun and they had a son whom they were forced to hid by putting him in a wooden box and setting him off on the Gilgit River to ensure his cannibalistic grandfather won't eat him. Azar Jamshed then mistakenly killed his foster brother Barcha and in regret committed suicide. His wife succeeded him as ruler of Gilgit and their son was accidentally discovered when the nobility offered him to become her husband - at that point a noblemen who remembered the whole story revealed to them he was in fact her long lost son whom they had to hide from Sri Badat. 
  • Azar Jamshed married Nur Bakht Khatun d/o Sri Badat and had issue, a son:
    • Su Malik (aka. Gark/Kark)
      • Shah Malik - ancestor of the Rajas of Gilgit (see Rajas of Gilgit)
      • Deeng Malik
        • Son - predeceased his father 
      • Mir Malik
        • Sahib Khan
          • Daulat (Dullah) Shah 
            • Shah Malik II - m. a lady from Baltistan named Hasham Begum and had 3 sons:
              • Shah Tham (see below)
              • Bugha Tham
              • Noni Tham
An invader from Ladakh named Lama Yol Kisar invaded after the death of Shah Malik II dispersing his sons. They ended up in Afghanistan according to Major Yousaf Khan (R). 
  • Shah Tham married into the House of Gilgit and had issue, a son:
    • Lali Tham married Shumul Gas the sister of Torra Khan of Gilgit and had issue, twin sons:
      • Sahib Khan (Girkis) - ancestor of the Mirs of Hunza (see Mirs of Hunza)
        • Noor Bibi
      • Maghlot - ancestor of the Mirs of Nagar State (see below)
The twins were born conjoined but as soon as they were separated, they became sworn rivals of each other to the point their father realized he would have to keep them apart from each other and so he even ended up dividing his domains into two giving Hunza to Girkis and Nagar to Maghlot to keep them from fighting each other over the throne. However, this did not stop Maghlot from killing Girkis - he tricked him into visiting Nagar for a hunt and killed him there. 

The aforementioned Girkis left behind a single child: Noor Bibi, whom the Hunzais installed as their next ruler. In the meantime, Noor Bibi - much to the fears and disgust of the Hunzais - developed a relationship with Dullah Shah s/o Maghlot. Although the Hunzais eventually found her a husband, Shah Khan I (Ayasho I) from the descendants of Shah Tham and Hasham Begum, some say she still managed to marry Dullah Shah after his death. Whether Dullah Shah's son Ali Dad was mothered by Noor Bibi or not is hard to ascertain as some narrations have her marrying Dullah Shah after Ayasho's death while others have her dying in house arrest in the house of her foster father.

  • Maghlot - 1st ruler of Nagar, had issue, two sons:
    • Daulat "Dullah" Shah - 2nd ruler of Nagar, had issue:
      • Ali Dad - 3rd ruler of Nagar.
        • Shah Kamal - 4th ruler of Nagar (see below)
    • Sahib Khan 
Ali Dad was overthrown by Hari Tham (House of Hunza) who ruled for nearly 7 years before Ali Dad returned from Baltistan and managed to recover his kingdom. His son and successor Shah Kamal faced the same thing but was able to return from Baltistan and retake his kingdom once he heard that Hari Tham's taxations had outraged the public who wanted him back. He appealed Shah Burya Wali (a Muslim mystic) to pray for his victory and succeeded though he did not abolish the taxes implemented by Hari Tham. 

  • Shah Kamal - 4th ruler of Nagar, had issue:
    • Faulad
    • Firdaus - married into the Rajas of Gilgit family (see Rajas of Gilgit)
    • Rahim Khan I - 5th ruler of Nagar, had issue:
      • Daughter - married Khusrau Khan of Hunza, had issue:
        • Salim Khan II of Hunza (see Mirs of Hunza)
          • Daughter - married Babar Khan of Nagar (see below)
      • Gohar Khatun - married Raja Habib Khan s/o the aforementioned Firdaus 
        • Gauri Tham (see Rajas of Gilgit)
      • Karim Khan 
      • Son - killed by Babar Khan
      • Son - killed by Babar Khan 
      • Son - killed by Babar Khan 
      • Babar Khan - 6th ruler of Nagar, had issue
        • Naseeb Khatoon - married Mir Salim Khan II of Hunza (see Mirs of Hunza)
        • Deeng Malik
          • Tahir Shah - 10th ruler of Nagar and later of Gilgit (see Rajas of Gilgit) 
          • Sultan
        • Azur Khan - 7th ruler of Nagar married 
          • Murad Begum - married Ghazan Khan I of Hunza, no issue
          • Gulshah
          • Alif Khan - married Shah Begum d/o Salim II of Hunza, had issue:
            • Rahim Khan III (s/o Shah Begum) - 9th ruler of Nagar, killed by Mir Ghazanfar Khan I of Hunza
            • Noor Jehan - married Ghazan Khan I of Hunza, had issue. She was killed upon orders of her father-in-law Mir Ghazanfar Khan I after the murder of Ghazanfar Khan's brother Abdullah Khan by her husband Ghazan Khan (see Mirs of Hunza)
            • Sultan Nisab - married Mir Safdar Khan of Hunza but divorced later, no issue
            • Raja Zafar Zahid Khan - 10th ruler of Nagar (see below)
          • Rahim Khan II - died before his son's murder
            • Babar Khan (aka. Babar Ullah Khan) - killed by Mir Ghazanfar Khan I of Hunza
        • Habib Khan (s/o the daughter of Salim Khan II of Hunza) - 8th ruler of Nagar, married Sarah d/o Mehtar Suleiman Shah of Yasin
          • Ali Dad - killed with his father, no issue
When Babar Khan died, his 2 sons began fighting over the throne - Deeng Malik retired to his appanage. Azur Khan exiled his brother Habib Khan. Habib went to Hunza and then Chitral for aid. Deeng Malik settled in the estate allotted to him. Suleiman Shah came to Habib’s aid and Azur Khan was taken prisoner alongside his son Alif Khan and grandson Babar (his father was already dead) as well as Alif Khan’s son Rahim Khan III. Ghaznafar and Habib conspired to get Azur Khan and his son Alif Khan released from Chitral and under the pretext of sending them back to Chitral had them murdered enroute by Habib’s men. However Rahim Khan III and Babar Khan were still in Ghazanfar’s custody and soon Ghazanfar decided to replace Habib with Rahim Khan III as he was his sister’s son. Ghazanfar allied with Mehtar Suleiman Shah and soon the job was done - Habib was killed and Rahim Khan III replaced him. 

However soon Ghazanfar was no longer happy with Rahim Khan III and invited him and his cousin Babar (Babar Ullah) Khan under the pretext of getting them married to his daughters and had them killed. Zafar Zahid Khan was installed as the next ruler but as he was in infant Tahir Shah assisted him with ruling (some sources say it was Princess Gulshah who did it). Tahir Shah was practically the 10th ruler. He was succeeded by Raja Zafar Zahid Khan who is known for being the longest ruling ruler. His wives and issue are as follows: 
  • Raja Zafar Zahid Khan - 10th ruler of Nagar married the following and had issue:
  1. Bibi Roshan d/o Mir Ghazanfar Khan I of Hunza
    1. Muhammad Khan - m. Zarr e Afza d/o Mir Ghazan Khan I of Hunza, had issue:
      1. Khusrau Khan
      2. Abbas Khan
      3. Badshah
      4. Tahir Shah
  2. Bibi Khadma d/o Mehtar Ghazi Gauhar Aman of Yasin
    1. Alif Khan
    2. Raja Azur Khan of Nagar - 11th ruler of Nagar, his wives and children are as follows:
      1.  Jehan Ara d/o Mir Ghazan Khan I of Hunza
        1. Muhammad Ayub Khan (Nausherwan) - married Bibi Ghulmittee d/o Mir Safdar Khan of Hunza
        2. Alif Khan 
      2. Henai d/o Nooro of Mayun of Hunza - originally the wife of Rustum Ali of Budalas till Azur abducted her
        1. Asghar Ali
  3. Zebunnisaa d/o Mir Ghazanfar of Hunza
    1. Babar Khan
    2. Deeng Malik
    3. Ghuri Tham Khan - m. a daughter of Raja Bahadur Khan of Astore
    4. Mir Sikandar Khan of Nagar - 12th ruler of Nagar, married and had issue:
      1. Babar Khan - married a daughter of Mir Muhammad Nazeem Khan of Hunza
      2. Shams un Nehar -m. Mir Jamal of Hunza had issue (see Mirs of Hunza)
      3. Muhammad Ali Khan - heir apparent but predeceased
        1. Mir Shaukat Ali Khan - 13th ruler of Nagar, married one wife and had issue:
          1. Daughter
          2. Daughter
          3. Son
          4. Son
          5. Mir Barkat Ali Khan - 14th ruler of Nagar
            1. Mir Qasim Ali Khan of Nagar -m. Pashmina Ahmed, a fashion blogger
              1. Asher (son)
  4. Zuhrah Khatoon d/o Wazir Halo
    1. Behram Ali 
    2. Shah Sultan 
    3. Shah Zindan 
    4. Habib Khan
  5. Habbah Khatoon d/o Raja Karim Khan of Gilgit 
    1. Karim Khan of Gilgit Messr Ali (Ali Dad Khan) - married Malika Shahab Khatun, had issue:
      1. Gushpur Karim Khan
        1. Raja Jaafar Khan -  d. Childless succeeded by his uncle Raja Shah Rais as per Shah Rais Khan but Qudratullah Beg writes he had a son and grandson:
          1. Gushpur Naib Khan - married Bibi Hayat d/o Mir Safdar Khan of Hunza, had issue:
            1. Sulaiman Shah - alive in 1962 and living in Gilgit
      2. Hassan Ali
      3. Raja Shah Rais Khan - succeeded Raja Jafar Ali Khan, wrote a history of his family and became first and only President of Republic of Gilgit.
      4. Gushpur Muhammad Afzal
    2. Kamal Khan Nomal
      1. Chilis Khan Nomal
1890-1891 Raja Azur Khan overthrew his frail father but was deposed by the British in the 1891 Hunza-Nagar Campaign and fled to Chinese Turkestan. However, the Chinese returned him to the British who then exiled him to Srinagar and reinstated Raja Zafar Zahid Khan with his son Sikandar Khan aiding him as regent. 

1891-1905 Raja Zafar Zahid Khan ruled till death.

1905-1940 Mir Sikandar Ali Khan ruled till death

1947-2003 Mir Sikandar Khan's heir predeceased him, and he was succeeded by his grandson (son of the heir) Mir Shaukat Ali Khan who merged his State with Pakistan in 1947. PM Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto deposed him in 1974 when his state was abolished. He died in 2003 from kidney failure. 

2003-2011 Mir Barkat Ali Khan ruled (ceremonial) till he was killed in a road accident in Iraq while visiting holy places. He was buried there.

2011- Mir Qasim Ali Khan

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