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{{unreferenced|date=July 2012}}{{For|other people with similar names|Murtaza Khan (disambiguation){{!}}Murtaza Khan}}{{Infobox royalty
| name = Murtaza Ali Khan
| birth_date = 22 November 1923
| birth_place = Rafat Mahal, Khasbagh Palace, [[Rampur, Uttar Pradesh|Rampur]]
| death_date = 8 February 1982
|title=[[Nawab of Rampur]]|succession=[[Nawab of Rampur]]|reign=1966-1971|predecessor=[[Raza Ali Khan of Rampur|Raza Ali Khan]]|successor=titles abolished by the 26th amendment to the constitution}}

'''Nawab Sayyid Murtaza Ali Khan Bahadur''', [[Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|MBE]] (22 November 1923 – 8 February 1982) was the titular [[:Category:Nawabs of Rampur|Nawab of Rampur]] from 1966 to his death in 1982, succeeding his father, [[Nawab]] [[Raza Ali Khan Bahadur]].
Murtaza was succeeded by his younger brother [[Zulfikar Ali Khan Bahadur]].

==Early life==

Sayyid Murtaza Ali Khan Bahadur was born on 22 November 1923 at the Rafat Mahal, Khasbagh Palace in Rampur, the eldest son of Shia Nawabzada (Crown Prince) Raza Ali Khan Bahadur. At the time, Murtaza's grandfather [[Hamid Ali Khan Bahadur]] was the Nawab. Upon his grandfather's death in 1930, Murtaza's father became Nawab of Rampur and Murtaza became the heir apparent. He was educated at the [[Doon School]] in Dehradun, then at [[Wellington College, Berkshire|Wellington College]] in Britain and at [[St Stephen's College, Delhi|St.Stephen's College]] in New Delhi. In 1943, Murtaza was commissioned into the [[British Indian Army]] and served as an aide-de-camp to the [[Commander-in-Chief, India]], General (later Field-Marshal) Sir [[Claude Auchinleck]]. He was promoted to Captain in 1946 and in that year was made the Brigadier of the Rampur State Forces. Also that year, Murtaza was appointed an [[Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|MBE]].

From 1946 until Independence, Murtaza served as the Minister of the Army for Rampur State and as the Minister for the Household, Education and Public Works until 1949 when Rampur State formally merged with the [[Dominion of India]].

==Titular Nawab of Rampur==

Following the death of his father in 1966, Murtaza succeeded as titular Nawab of Rampur. From 1969 until 1971, he served as a member in the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly, as well as an MP in the [[Lok Sabha]]. It is an interesting historical fact that Murtaza Ali contested an election from Rampur opposite his own mother Rafat Jamani Begum in 1972 and won. In 1971, the Indira Gandhi regime stripped Nawab Murtaza and his fellow former rulers of what little rights they had left, formally ending Nawab Murtaza's standing as a monarch.

==Personal life==

In 1943, Murtaza married Her Highness Nawab Aftab Dulhan Sakina uz-Zamani Begum Sahiba of Pirpur (11 September 1928 – 3 August 1993) the daughter of a minor chieftain. The couple had a son and a daughter:
*1. Nawab Syed Muhammad 'Ali Khan Bahadur, who was in the US for a while but remained an Indian citizen and married. having issue by his third wife Jeeva
**1. Nawabzadi Zahra Begum Sahiba
**2. Nawabzada Syed Akbar Ali Khan
*2.Nawabzadi Murtazai Begum Sahiba, who married Sayyid Intikhab Hyder Abedi and had three daughters:
**1. Sayyida Nargis Abedi
**2. Sayyida Nida Abedi
**3. Sayyida Sana Abedi

==Last years==

From 1966 to 1975, Nawab Murtaza served as President of the Raza Rampur Library Trust. He became a vice-chairman on its board of trustees in 1975 and remained in that capacity until his death on 8 February 1982 after a 16-year reign, aged 58.

==Titles==

*1923-1930: [[Nawabzada]] [[Sayyid]] Murtaza Ali Khan
*1930-1943: Nawabzada Sayyid Murtaza Ali Khan, Wali Ahad Bahadur
*1943-1946: [[Lieutenant]] Nawabzada Sayyid Murtaza Ali Khan, Wali Ahad Bahadur
*1946-1966: [[Brigadier]] Nawabzada Sayyid Murtaza Ali Khan, Wali Ahad Bahadur, [[Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|MBE]]
*1966-1982: Brigadier [[His Highness]] 'Ali Jah, Farzand-i-Dilpazir-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia, Mukhlis ud-Daula, Nasir ul-Mulk, Amir ul-Umara, Nawab Sayyid Murtaza 'Ali Khan Bahadur, Mustaid Jang, [[Nawab of Rampur]], MBE

==Honours==

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[[File:39-45 Star BAR.svg|100px]]
[[File:War Medal 39-45 BAR.svg|100px]]

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*Order of Hamid of Rampur (''Nishan-i-Hamidiya''), 1st Class
*Order of Good Fortune of Rampur (''Nishan-i-Iqbal''), 1st Class
*[[1939-1945 Star]]-1945
*[[War Medal 1939-1945]]-1945
*India Service Medal-1945
*[[Member of the Order of the British Empire]] (MBE)-1946

==References==

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[[Category:Members of the Order of the British Empire]]
[[Category:St. Stephen's College, Delhi alumni]]
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[[Category:People from Rampur, Uttar Pradesh]]

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