Faizullah Khan
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Nawab of Rampur |
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Portrait of Nawab Syed Faizullah Khan
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| Reign | 1774–1794 | ||||
| Coronation | 1774 | ||||
| Predecessor | Ali Mohammad Khan | ||||
| Successor | Muhammad Ali Khan | ||||
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23 September 1730 Rampur State Present day Rampur,Uttar Pradesh |
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| Died | 17 September 1794 (aged 64) Rampur,Uttar Pradesh |
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| Burial | Near Eidgah in Rampur | ||||
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| House | Rampur | ||||
| Dynasty | Rohilla | ||||
| Father | Ali Mohammad Khan | ||||
| Mother | Marghalari Begum | ||||
| Religion | Islam | ||||
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| Syed Faizullah Khan |
Syed Faizullah Khan (c.1730 - July 17, 1794) was the first Nawab of Rampur. The princely state of Rampur was set up in 1774, after the First Rohilla War, by the dismemberment of the Rohilla state of Rohilkhand. Faizullah Khan, the surviving heir of Ali Mohammed Khan and opponent of the forces of Awadh and the British East India Company in the war, was installed as ruler of what was a state. It bordered the Maratha Empire to the south, making it a strategic point.
He was the second son of Ali Muhammad Khan. He assumed rule of the Rohillas after his father's death. In 1774, during the invasion of Rohilkhand by the united armies of the Vizier Shuja-ud-Daula and the British East India Company, Faizullah Khan led a resistance in which many of the Rohilla's principal chiefs were killed. Escaping from the slaughter, Faizullah Khan made his retreat good towards the mountains, with all his treasure. He collected the scattered remains of his countrymen; and as he was the eldest surviving son of Ali Mohammed Khan, he seems at length to have been generally acknowledged by his natural subjects the undoubted heir of his father's authority.
Faizullah Khan was a syed among the pashtuns and his family settled South Asia during the Mughal Empire. The pashtuns consisted of high-ranking soldiers and administrative elites of the Mughal Empire. Rampur State was one of the important Shia princely states with Awadh. Faizullah Khan was Sunni and wanted his son Muhammad Ali Khan to accept the same tradition. However, due to the influence and teaching of Nawab Asaf-ud-Dauala, his eldest son accepted Shia creed.
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