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Mir Ahmad Yar Khan

أحمد يار خان

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† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

The last Khan of Kalat (1902–1979): he succeeded his father Azam Jan in 1933, held out through 1947 before signing Kalat's accession to Pakistan on 27 March 1948, headed the Baluchistan States Union from 1952 until its dissolution ended the khanate on 14 October 1955, was arrested in 1958 after briefly declaring himself Khan again, served as Governor of Balochistan in 1974–1977, and wrote a political autobiography, Inside Baluchistan (1975).

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South Asia
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1875190019251950197520002025 c.
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    Mir Azam Jan Khan

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    Sources

    1. Ahmad of Kalat — English Wikipedia
    2. Mir Ahmad Yar Khan — Urdu Wikipedia
    3. Ahmad of Kalat — Wikidata
    4. Baluchistan i — Encyclopaedia Iranica
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    Mir Khudadad Khan

    Khan of Kalat (about 1841 – 20 May 1909): he came to the throne at sixteen in 1857 after his stepbrother Nasir Khan II and ruled — with one year's interruption — until the British forced his abdication in 1893; his reign saw the Mastung treaty of 1876, on which the Sandeman system of indirect rule over Balochistan was built, and he lived on at Kalat until his death in 1909.