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{{Distinguish|Ali Muhammad Khan}}
{{Use Indian English|date=November 2019}}
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{{Infobox royalty
| name = [[Nawab]] [[Sayyid]] Ali Mohammed [[Khan (title)|Khan]] [[Bahadur (title)|Bahadur]] [[Rohilla Chieftaincies|Rohilla]]
| title = [[Nawab]] Of [[Rohilkhand]] [[Nawab]] Of [[Badaun]] [[Nawab]] Of [[Rampur, Uttar Pradesh|Rampur]] [[Nawab]] Of [[Bareilly]] [[Nawab]] Of [[Moradabad]] [[Nawab]] Of [[Aonla, Uttar Pradesh|Aonla]] [[Sardar]] Of The [[Barech|Barech Tribe]] [[Tribal chief|Chief]] Of The [[Rohilla]]
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| succession = [[Rohilkhand]]
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| reign = 1720-1749
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| predecessor = '''Monarchy Established'''
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| successor = [[Abdullah Khan of Rohilkhand|Nawab Abdullah Khan of Rohilkhand]]
| succession1 = [[Badaun]]
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| reign1 = 1720-1749
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| predecessor1 = [[Rohilla|Sardar Daud Khan Rohilla]]
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| successor1 = [[Nawab]] [[Sayyid]] [[Abdullah Khan of Rohilkhand|Abdullah]] [[Khan (title)|Khan]] [[Bahadur (title)|Bahdur]] [[Rohilla Chieftaincies|Rohilla]]
| succession2 = [[Rampur, Uttar Pradesh|Rampur]]
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| reign2 = 1741-1749
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| predecessor2 = Raja Ram Singh of Katehr
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| successor2 = [[Nawab]] [[Sayyid]] [[Faizullah Khan|Faizullah]] [[Khan (title)|Khan]] [[Bahadur (title)|Bahdur]] [[Rohilla Chieftaincies|Rohilla]]
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| succession3 = [[Bareilly]]
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| reign3 = 1741-1748
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| predecessor3 = Nawab Abd Un Nabi Khan
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| successor3 = [[Nawab]] [[Sayyid]] [[Muhammad Yar Khan of Bareilly|Muhammad Yar]] [[Khan (title)|Khan]] [[Bahadur (title)|Bahdur]] [[Rohilla Chieftaincies|Rohilla]]
| succession4 = [[Moradabad]]
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| reign4 = 1741-1748
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| predecessor4 = Raja Harnand
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| successor4 = [[Nawab]] [[Sayyid]] [[Saadullah Khan of Rohilkhand|Saadullah]] [[Khan (title)|Khan]] [[Bahadur (title)|Bahdur]] [[Rohilla Chieftaincies|Rohilla]]
| succession5 = [[Aonla, Uttar Pradesh|Aonla]]
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| reign5 = 1720-1748
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| successor5 = [[Nawab]] [[Sayyid]] [[Abdullah Khan of Rohilkhand|Abdullah]] [[Khan (title)|Khan]] [[Bahadur (title)|Bahdur]] [[Rohilla Chieftaincies|Rohilla]]
| birth_name = [[Sayyid]] Muhammad Ali [[Khan (title)|Khan]]
| birth_date = 1714
| birth_place = [[Jansath]]
| death_date = 15 September 1749
| death_place = [[Aonla, Uttar Pradesh|Aonla]]
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| burial_place = [[Aonla, Uttar Pradesh|Aonla]]
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| regnal name = Ali Muhammad Khan
| house = [[Rohilla Dynasty|Rohilla]] ''(By Adoption)'' [[Barha Dynasty]] ''(By Birth)''
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| religion = [[Islam]]
| occupation = [[Subahdar|Subedar]] of [[Sirhind-Fategarh|Sirhind]]
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'''Ali Muhammad Khan''' (bf. 1714 – 15 September 1748)<ref>Ali Muhammad Khan Rohilla (1706-1748) is not to be confused with Nawab Muhammad Khan Bangash (1665-1743)</ref><ref>The original author listed 1725 – 1749, but other websites claimed he made the Rohilla kingdom independent in 1721, see [http://www.webindia123.com/history/MEDIEVAL/mughal%20period/mughal3.htm]</ref> was a [[Rohilla]] chief who succeeded his foster father Sardar Daud Khan Rohilla at the age of fourteen. He eventually went on to found the [[Kingdom of Rohilkhand]] in the northwestern region of the [[Uttar Pradesh]] state of [[India]] and was generally regarded as non-oppressive ruler to the masses.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Strachley |first1=Sir John |title=Hastings and the Rohilla |page=14}}</ref> He was well regarded for his political ability, and was granted the right to use India's highest insignia of the [[Mahseer]] by the [[Muhammad Shah|Emperor Muhammad Shah]]. His young death along with the tender age of his children led to [[Hafiz Rahmat Khan Barech|Hafiz Rehmat Khan's]] regency which was in large part governed against his wishes, despite Rehmat Khan's solemn oath on the Quran to fulfil dying Ali Mohammad's will. On his death the disenfranchisement and neglect of his sons by Rehmat Khan caused one son, Allah Yar Khan to die of consumption, and another son Murtaza Khan to leave for [[Secunderabad]] where he too would eventually die.

== Ancestry ==

As a boy Ali Muhammad Khan was adopted by the chief of the Barech Tribe, Sardar Daud Khan Rohilla. The term Rohilla refers to a Pashtun settlers of India.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}

However he was by birth a member of the Barha Dynasty. The meaning of the name Barha is uncertain. While some contend that it comes from the word, "bahir", meaning "outsider" referring to the preference of members of the Barha dynasty to live outside [[Delhi]]. Others like the Emperor [[Jahangir]], believed that it came from the Hindi word, "barha", meaning "twelve". In reference to the twelve townships that members of the dynasty had received as fiefs from [[Muhammad of Ghor|Sultan Shibabdudin of Ghor]] when they first arrived in India.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Nevill |first1=H.R. |title=Muzaffarnagar Imperial Gazetteer |journal=District Gazeiters of the United Provinces of Aga and Oudh |date=1920 |volume=III}}</ref>

== Biography ==
He succeeded ''rohilla'' Sardar Daud Khan and helped develop Rohilkhand into a powerful nation, which became independent in 1721. In 1746, due to an altercation over the collection of wood between the construction workers of [[Safdarjung|Safdar Jang]] with the forest guards of Ali Muhammad Khan, Safdar Jang decided to eliminate him.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://rekhta.org/ebooks/akhbar-us-sanadeed-volume-001-mohammad-najmul-gani-khan-ebooks|title=Akhbar-us-Sanadeed, vol. 1|last=Khan|first=Muhammad Najm-ul-Ghani|publisher=Munshi Nawal Kishore|year=1918|location=Lucknow|pages=146–152}}</ref> [[Safdarjung|Safdar Jang]] of [[Oudh]] informed the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] emperor of India [[Muhammad Shah]]<ref>Muhammad Shah (1702–1748) was a Mughal emperor of India between 1719 and 1748</ref> (ruled 1719–1748), through [[Itimad-ad-Daula, Qamar-ud-Din Khan|Qamar-ud-Din Khan]]<ref name=":0" /> about Ali Mohammed Khan's supposed intentions to create his own [[Sultanate]]. Mohammed Shah sent an expedition against him, as a result of which he was imprisoned. Later he was pardoned and made governor of [[Sirhind]].<ref name=":0" /> After [[Nadir Shah]], the conqueror of [[Iran]], took control of [[Kabul]] and sacked [[Delhi]] in 1739, Ali Mohammed Khan returned to his homeland and ruled the independent state of Rohilkhand until his death in 1748.{{citation needed|date=November 2019}}

[[Faizullah Khan]] was the second son of Ali Muhammad Khan. He assumed rule of the Rohillas after Nawab Saidullah Khan's.{{citation needed|date=November 2019}}

==Descendants==
* Nawab Syed [[Abdullah Khan of Rohilkhand|Abdullah Khan]] first son from wife Marghalari Begum (hailing from Matni tribe)
* Nawab Syed [[Faizullah Khan]] second son from wife Marghalari Begum (hailing from Matni tribe)
* Nawab Syed [[Saadullah Khan of Rohilkhand|Saadullah Khan]] from wife Sarah Begum (of Bunerwal)
* Nawab Syed [[Muhammad Yar Khan of Bareilly|Muhammad Yar Khan]] son from wife Lado Begum
* Nawab Syed Alah-Yar Khan son from wife Raj Begum - He died of consumption around the same time that his younger brother Murtaza died.
* Syed Murtaza Khan - Disgusted of Hafiz Rehmat Khan's unfair treatment, he left for secunderabad where he died.
* Shah Begum, daughter, from wife Marghalari Begum (wife of Inayat Khan son of [[Hafiz Rahmat Khan Barech|Hafiz Rehmat Khan]])
* Niyaz Begum, daughter [and wife of Shah Muhammad Khan brother of [[Hafiz Rahmat Khan Barech|Hafiz Rehmat Khan]]],
* Masoom Begum, daughter, [and wife of [[Zabita Khan]]]
* Inayat Begum, daughter, [wife of Bahadur Khan Kamal Zai]
* a daughter, name unknown, who died in childhood and was engaged to a son of [[Qamar-ud-din Khan, Asif Jah I|Qamar-ud-din Khan]]
<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://rekhta.org/ebooks/akhbar-us-sanadeed-volume-001-mohammad-najmul-gani-khan-ebooks|title=Akhbar-us-Sanadeed, vol. 1|last=Khan|first=Mohammad Najm-ul-Ghani Khan|publisher=Munshi Nawal Kishore|year=1918|location=Lucknow|pages=195–196}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Rohilla]]

==Notes==


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[[Category:Mughal Empire people]]
[[Category:Rohilla]]
[[Category:History of Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Pardon recipients]]
[[Category:1706 births]]
[[Category:1748 deaths]]
[[Category:Nawabs of India]]
[[Category:Indian people of Pashtun descent]]

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