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[[Khan Bahadur]] [[Raja]] '''Jahandad Khan''', {{post-nominals|post-noms=[[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]]}} (1849–1906) was a politician and the chief of the [[Gakhars|Gakhar]] tribe<ref>{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1355807937 |title=Quarterly Civil List for the Punjab: Corrected up to 1st October 1898 (classic reprint). |date=2022 |publisher=Forgotten Books |isbn=978-0-365-88615-0 |pages=262 |oclc=1355807937}}</ref> in the [[British Indian Empire]]. He was granted the title of Khan Bahadur on 24 May 1881 and the [[Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire]] (CIE) on 1 January 1904.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3VQTAAAAYAAJ&dq=khan+bahadur+raja+jahandad+khan&pg=RA1-PA149 |title=The India List and India Office List |date=1905 |publisher=Harrison. |pages=162, 149 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Lethbridge |first=Roper |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hIPy0LpPm9oC&q=golden+book+of+india&pg=PA200 |title=The Golden Book of India: A Genealogical and Biographical Dictionary of the Ruling Princes, Chiefs, Nobles, and Other Personages, Titled Or Decorated, of the Indian Empire |date=2001 |publisher=Adegi Graphics LLC |isbn=978-1-4021-9328-6 |pages=200 |language=en |orig-date=1893}}</ref><br />
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== Biography ==<br />
[[File:Sultan_jahandad_khan.png|thumb| Raja Jahandad Khan in 1890.]]<br />
Khan was from the Khanpur family of Gakhars. Raja Jahandad inherited the [[Khanpur Tehsil, Haripur|Khanpur]] estate containing 84 villages from his father Sultan Raja Haider Bukhsh. He was invested with the gold [[Kaisar-i-Hind Medal]] by the Viceroy of India, [[Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst|Lord Hardinge]], in recognition of the many years of service since 1877 he had so loyally rendered to the British Raj.<ref>{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/504036266 |title=History of Services of Gazetted Officers employed in the Punjab. 11th edition, corrected up to 1st July 1891( -1936). |date=1891–1936 |pages=337 |oclc=504036266}}</ref> Raja Jahandad Khan remained Assistant Commissioner of Rawalpindi, Punjab. He was sent as an ambassador of the British Government of India to Afghanistan to congratulate Amir [[Habibullah Khan]] on his accession.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Watson, Hubert Digby |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1332961807 |title=Gazetteer of the Hazara district, 1907 |date=1992 |publisher=Sarhad Urdu Academy |pages=35–37 |oclc=1332961807}}</ref> He had close relations with the Afghan monarchy, and married the daughter of Amir [[Sher Ali Khan]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Khan |first=Sarfraz |last2=Amin |first2=Noor Ul |date=2015 |title=Prelude to Higher Education in Afghanistan: The Role of Indian Muslims (1901–33) |url=https://www.prdb.pk/article/prelude-to-higher-education-in-afghanistan-the-role-of-indi-3435 |journal=Central Asia |language=en |volume=77 |issue=2 |pages=1–31}}</ref><br />
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== Family ==<br />
Raja Jahandad Khan had three sons {{Em dash}} Captain Sultan Raja Haider Zaman ([[Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|MBE]], Delhi Durbar Medal, Delhi Coronation Medal, Chairman District board Hazara); Raja Manochehar Khan (MLA NWFP Assembly 1937) and Raja Safdar Jung. His grandson [[Raja Sikander Zaman]] later served as CM of NWFP.<ref>{{Cite web |date=14 July 2025 |title=Masjid Rajgan: A 153-year-old monument to faith that emerges from beneath Khanpur Dam |url=https://www.nation.com.pk/14-Jul-2025/masjid-rajgan-a-153-year-old-monument-to-faith-that-emerges-from-beneath-khanpur-dam |access-date=27 August 2025 |website=[[The Nation (Pakistan)|The Nation]] |language=en-US}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Sultan Muhammad Khan]]<br />
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