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'''Nawab Jehandad Khan Tanoli''' was a chief of [[Tanoli tribe]] in the [[Hazara, Pakistan|Hazara]] region of the [[History of the North-West Frontier|North-West Frontier]] of [[British India]] and [[Nawab]] of [[Amb (princely state)|Amb]].
Jehandad Khan Tanoli was the son of [[Mir Painda Khan]], a fighter against the [[Sikh Empire]]. He became the ruler of Amb on the death of his father in 1844.
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| name = Mir Jehandad Khan Tanoli
| title = [[Nawab of Amb|Nawab of Kingdom of Amb]]<br>Nawab Shahib
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| allegiance = [[British Rule]]
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| battles = * [[Second Anglo-Sikh War]], Conflict war with [[Sikh Empire]]
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8th Nawab of [[Nawab of Amb|Kingdom of Amb]]
| reign = 1844 – 1868
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| full name = Khan Bahadur Jehandad Khan Tanoli
| house = [[Barlas]]
| house-type = Dynasty
| father = [[Mir Painda Khan]]
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1820|2|06|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Amb, Pakistan]]
| death_date = {{Death date|1868|7|011|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Darband, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]]
| burial_date =1868
| burial_place = [[Darband, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]]
| signature_type =Signature(دستخط)
| religion = [[Sunni Islam]]
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==Life==
Jehandad Khan was the son of [[Mir Painda Khan]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=QLMUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA539&lpg=PA539&dq=ill+bred+swine&source=bl&ot History and pedigree]</ref> Jehandad Khan became the ruler of Amb on the death of his father in 1844.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}

It was said, "Of all the tribal chiefs of Hazara, the most powerful [was] said to be Jehandad Khan of the Tanoli."<ref name="Allen_139">{{harvnb|Allen|2001|p=139}}.</ref> {{citation needed|date=August 2021}}
His territories lay on both banks of the [[Indus]], and Jehandad Khan was highly respected among his peoples as the son of [[Painda Khan]].<ref name="Allen_139" />
In the words of Major J. Abbott {{quote|"His (Jehandad's) territory interposes between Hazara and the strongest and most troublesome of the independent tribes. He can send 50 or 60 matchlocks to retaliate a fray which might cost us an army of 8000 men. Jehandad Khan is naturally of a gentle and sincere temperament, and has fewer vicious propensities than most Asiatics."<ref>In a letter dated "Hazara, 7 August 1851", from Major. J. Abbott, Deputy Comm and Supdt, Hazara, to the Secretary to the Board of Administration for the Affairs of the Punjab.</ref>}}{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}

As far as Jehandad Khan's domain of Upper Tanawal is concerned, with its capital at Amb, the term ''jagir'' has never been applicable to it. The British Government considered "Upper Tannowul" as a chiefship held under the British Government, but as a rule they did not possess internal jurisdiction within it{{citation needed|date=September 2014}}. The Chief managed his own people in his own way, without regard to the laws, rules or systems of [[British India]]{{citation needed|date=September 2014}}. This tenure resembled that of the Chiefs of Patiala, Jhind, Nabha, Kapurthala, and others.<ref>Letter dated 21 March 1863 from [[Thomas Douglas Forsyth]], Officiating Secretary to the Government of Punjab, to the Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, quoted in ''A Collection of Papers relating to the History, Status and Powers of The Nawab of Amb'', (Punjab Secretariat, 1874), p. 58</ref>

In 1852, Jehandad Khan was ordered by the President of the Board of Administration, who was visiting Hazara to see him at Haripur about the murder of two British officers, Carne and Tapp of the Salt Department, who had been killed in the country of Jehandad Khan in 1851{{citation needed|date=September 2014}}. When the President ordered the Khan to give up the murderers or else suffer the consequences, the Khan is reported to have replied "We should consider your presence in our kingdom an honour, but our country is a rather difficult one for your army."<ref>{{harvnb|Allen|2001|pp=203–204}}</ref>
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However, for all his public bravado, the Khan recognised his limitations and in private protested his innocence to the British administrators, and was eventually cleared of the charges.<ref>Allen, pp 203-204</ref> In due course, Mir Jehandad Khan was granted the personal and temporary title of 'Nawab', which in succeeding generations was to be granted to the family in perpetuity{{citation needed|date=September 2014}}.

When he died, the Khan left a nine-year-old son, [[Muhammad Akram Khan]], who succeeded him.<ref>{{cite book | title = Gazetteer of the Hazara District, 1907 | author = Hubert Digby Watson | editor = Sarhad Urdu Academy | year = 1992 | page = 20,170,193 | url = https://books.google.com/?id=CJNuAAAAMAAJ&q=%22muhammad+akram+khan%22&dq=%22muhammad+akram+khan%22 }}</ref>

==References==
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