Fateh Ali Khan Qizilbash

Nawab Sir Fateh Ali Khan Qizilbash (1862 – 28 October 1923) was a landlord from Lahore, Punjab, during the British Raj. He succeeded his uncle in 1898 as head of the Qizilbash clan, sat on the Punjab Legislative Council and the Council of India, was among the founders of Shia College, Lucknow, was made a Knight Commander of the Indian Empire in 1921, and was buried in Karbala. No Arabic Wikipedia article exists for him; this account is written from the English and Urdu articles and the Wikidata item. ^{1 2 3}

His father was Sardar Nisar Ali Khan and his grandfather Ali Raza Khan. Besides his Punjab estates he was taluqdar of Nawabganj Aliabad in Bahraich district of the United Provinces, where development works and the planting of mango, litchi and other orchards are credited to him. ^{1 2}

In 1895 he assisted the government during the Chitral Expedition, succeeding in inducing a large number of border tribes to be friendly to the Government of India, and was rewarded with 2,000 acres of land in the Chenab colony for his followers. He was elected to the Punjab Legislative Council and represented the Punjab at the Famine Conference of 1897. In 1902 he was chosen to represent the Punjab at the coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. In 1904 he was elected to the Council of India as a non-official member representing the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. ¹

During the First World War he donated 22,000 rupees, along with other contributions, to the war effort, and in 1921 he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire. ¹

In 1914 he promulgated the idea of Shia College, Lucknow. The Urdu article, resting on a distinct Bahraich source, records that he was among the founders of the college, that he worked alongside the Raja of Mahmudabad, Sir Ali Muhammad Khan, for the establishment of Aligarh Muslim University, and that he built an imambargah in Bahraich and buildings in Lucknow and Bahraich. ^{1 2}

The sources report these as his own religious and educational works; they are the basis of the Shia reading in his data record, where it is stated that neither article names a branch and that "Twelver" follows the founder's mapping rule, in the context of Lahore's Qizilbash community and his Karbala burial. ^{1 2 3}

He died on 28 October 1923 and was buried in Karbala, according to the Urdu article; the Wikidata item agrees on the burial place. ^{2 3}

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