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{{Infobox monarch
| name = Abida Sultan Begum
| title = [[Princess]] Suraya Jah, Nawab Gowhar-i-Taj
| succession =
| reign =
| image = PRINCESS ABIDA OF BHOPAL (21250881074).jpg
| caption =
| native_lang1 = [[Urdu]]
| birth_date = 28 August 1913
| birth_place = [[Bhopal]], British India
| death_date = 11 May 2002 (aged 88)
| death_place =[[Karachi]], [[Sindh]], Pakistan
| coronation =
| predecessor =
| spouse = Mohammad Sarwar Ali Khan
| successor =
| issue = [[Shahryar Khan]]
| royal house = [[Nawab of Bhopal]]
| father = [[Hamidullah Khan]]
| mother = Maimoona Sultan
| religion =
| place of burial= Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
}}
[[Princess]] '''Suraya Jah, Nawab Gowhar-i-Taj, Abida Sultan Begum Sahiba''' (28 August 1913 – 11 May 2002) was the eldest daughter of [[Hamidullah Khan]], the last [[Nawab of Bhopal|Nawab]] of the [[Bhopal (state)|Bhopal state]], and his wife Begum Maimoona Sultan.

==Life and family==
[[File:Bhopal Royal Family.jpg|thumb|left|Bhopal Royal Family: From left to right - Nawab [[Hamidullah Khan]], his wife Maimoona Sultan, their daughters - Rabia Sultan, Abida Sultan, [[Sajida Sultan]] in [[London]], 1932]]
Sultan is the daughter of [[Hamidullah Khan]], the [[Nawab of Bhopal]] and Begum Maimoona Sultan. She was the eldest of three children; she had two younger sisters [[Sajida Sultan]], and Rabia Sultan. The [[Begum of Bhopal]], [[Sultan Jahan, Begum of Bhopal|Sultan Jahan]], was her grandmother, and her predecessor [[Shah Jahan Begum]] was her great-grandmother. The cricketer [[Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi]] was his brother-in-law through his marriage to Sajida, and the cricketer [[Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi]] is her nephew.

In 1926 she married Nawab Mohammad Sarwar Ali Khan, ruler of [[Kurwai State]]. In 1928, she was recognized as the heiress apparent to the Bhopal throne. However, she gave up her right to the throne and migrated to the newly formed [[Pakistan]] in 1950.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1486294/the-remarkable-begums-who-defied-patriarchal-norms-to-rule-bhopal-for-more-than-a-century|title=The remarkable Begums who defied patriarchal norms to rule Bhopal for more than a century}}</ref>

In Pakistan, she joined the [[Foreign Service of Pakistan|foreign service]]. Therefore, the Government of India excluded her from the succession and her younger sister [[Sajida Sultan, Begum of Bhopal|Sajida]] succeeded her instead upon her father's death in 1960, although Abida Sultan contested the succession in court.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1486294/the-remarkable-begums-who-defied-patriarchal-norms-to-rule-bhopal-for-more-than-a-century|title=The remarkable Begums who defied patriarchal norms to rule Bhopal for more than a century}}</ref>

Abida Sultan had arrived in the newly created [[Pakistan]] at the age of 37, with a young son. She was to spend the greater part of her life in Pakistan. She died in [[Karachi]] in 2002. Her son, [[Shaharyar Khan]], was to become the Foreign Secretary of Pakistan and then the Chairman of the [[Pakistan Cricket Board]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1486294/the-remarkable-begums-who-defied-patriarchal-norms-to-rule-bhopal-for-more-than-a-century|title=The remarkable Begums who defied patriarchal norms to rule Bhopal for more than a century}}</ref>

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Ab2030: corrected lead per sources

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