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'''Nawab Sayyid Muhammad Yar Khan Bahadur Rohilla''' (died 23 April 1774)<ref name=":0">{{cite book|last1=Khan|first1=Mohammad Najmul Ghani|title=Akhbar-us-Sanadeed, Vol. 1|date=1918|publisher=Munshi Nawal Kishore|location=Lucknow|page=599|url=https://rekhta.org/ebooks/akhbar-us-sanadeed-volume-001-mohammad-najmul-gani-khan-ebooks}}</ref> was the fourth son of Nawab [[Ali Mohammed Khan|Ali Muhammad Khan]] and upon the division of his father's realms he was made the Nawab of Bareilly.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hamilton |first1=Charles |title=An Historical Relation of the rise and fall of the Rohilla Afghan in the Northen Provinces of India |page=90}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Strachey |first1=Sir John |title=Warren Hastings and the Rohillas |date=1892 |page=19}}</ref>
'''Nawab Sayyid Muhammad Yar Khan Bahadur Rohilla''' (died 23 April 1774)<ref name=":0">{{cite book|last1=Khan|first1=Mohammad Najmul Ghani|title=Akhbar-us-Sanadeed, Vol. 1|date=1918|publisher=Munshi Nawal Kishore|location=Lucknow|page=599|url=https://rekhta.org/ebooks/akhbar-us-sanadeed-volume-001-mohammad-najmul-gani-khan-ebooks}}</ref> was the fourth son of Nawab [[Ali Mohammed Khan|Ali Muhammad Khan]] and upon the division of his father's realms he was made the Nawab of Bareilly.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hamilton |first1=Charles |title=An Historical Relation of the rise and fall of the Rohilla Afghan in the Northern Provinces of India |page=90}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Strachey |first1=Sir John |title=Warren Hastings and the Rohillas |date=1892 |page=19}}</ref>


== Life ==
== Life ==
On his deathbed, his father [[Ali Mohammed Khan|Ali Mohammad Khan Rohilla]] made his ministers swear oaths on the Quran to respect his will and to act as protectors of his children until they reached maturity. He appointed [[Hafiz Rahmat Khan Barech|Hafiz Rehmat Khan]] as regent of Rohilkhand until then. However the ministers and regent all reneged on their promises. In 1754 they orchestrated an argument within the royal family and used it as a pretext to usurp the power and wealth of the orphans. Disgusted, he along with his older brother Abdullah Khan and younger Allah Yar Khan left for Oojanee.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hamilton |first1=Charles |title=An Historical Relation of the rise and fall of the Rohilla Afghan in the Northen Provinces of India |page=93}}</ref>
On his deathbed, his father [[Ali Mohammed Khan|Ali Mohammad Khan Rohilla]] made his ministers swear oaths on the Quran to respect his will and to act as protectors of his children until they reached maturity. He appointed [[Hafiz Rahmat Khan Barech|Hafiz Rehmat Khan]] as regent of Rohilkhand until then. However the ministers and regent all reneged on their promises. In 1754 they orchestrated an argument within the royal family and used it as a pretext to usurp the power and wealth of the orphans. Disgusted, he along with his older brother Abdullah Khan and younger Allah Yar Khan left for Oojanee.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hamilton |first1=Charles |title=An Historical Relation of the rise and fall of the Rohilla Afghan in the Northern Provinces of India |page=93}}</ref>


He was killed while fighting the British in the [[First Rohilla War]].
He was killed while fighting the British in the [[First Rohilla War]].