Nawab of Sardhana

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The Nawab of Sardhana is an honorary Muslim title bestowed upon the descendants of the Afghan noble chieftain (nawab) and statesman Jan-Fishan Khan for services to the British Raj – both in the failed British Afghan campaigns, as well as during the 1857 Rebellion in India. The hereditary title was once accompanied by a large jagir at Sardhana, made up largely of ancestral lands which once belonged to the Begum Samru. While these lands have mostly now been dispensed of, the descendants of Jan Fishan Khan retain the right to use the title Nawab of Sardhana. An account of the awarding of the title, Nawab of Sardhana, was provided by the British colonial scholar Sir Roper Lethbridge, in his The Golden Book of India: "THE NAWAB OF SARDHANA On account of services rendered to Alexander Barnes in his Kabul mission and subsequently to the English in their retreat from Kabul, they were expelled from Kabul and settled at Sardhana. At the time of the Mutiny, the head of the family, Sayyid Muhammed...

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