Mohammad Ali Mohammad Khan

Mohammad Ali Mohammad Khan (4 June 1878 – 23 March 1931) was the Raja of Mahmudabad in Oudh from 28 June 1903 until his death, a zamindar of one of the largest estates in the United Provinces and a noted politician of British India. ^{1 2}

He was the son of Raja Sir Mohammad Amir Hasan Khan (1849–1903), jagirdar of the Mahmudabad taluq, and succeeded him in 1903; the English article places his birth at Mahmudabad in Sitapur district and the Urdu article at the village of Amrota in the same district. ^{1 3} He was a founder-member of Lucknow University in 1920, having first urged a university for Lucknow in print and given a lakh of rupees toward it, and he served as the first vice-chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University from 17 December 1920 to 28 February 1923, donating a lakh to its fund and fifty thousand rupees to scientific education at the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College, of which he had been a trustee since 1906. ¹ In 1919 he founded the Madrasatul Waizeen in Lucknow, a centre of Shia Islamic education, in memory of his younger brother Mohammad Ali Ahmad Khan. ¹

He sat in the United Provinces Legislative Council (1904–1909), the Governor-General's Council (1907–1920) and the Imperial Legislative Council, was elected unopposed to the Council of State in 1927, and served as Home Minister of the United Provinces (1920–1926) and as the first Indian member of Governor Harcourt Butler's administrative council. ¹ He presided over the All-India Muslim League conferences of 1917, 1918 and 1928 and over the British Indian Association of Oudh taluqdars, and during the Non-Cooperation Movement he helped secure the release of Congress leaders jailed at Lucknow, Motilal Nehru among them. ¹ He was made KCIE in 1919, CSI in 1921 and KCSI in 1922, and held the personal title Maharaja Bahadur. ¹

He was a poet who wrote marsia — elegies for Karbala — extensively under the pen name Mohib. ¹ He died on 23 March 1931 and was succeeded by his son Mohammad Amir Ahmad Khan. ^{1 2}