Born in exile in the summer of 1838, the story of Nawab Shahjahan Begum—the poet princess of Bhopal—is one wrought with deceit and heartbreak. Shahjahan was not born in Bhopal. She was born at ...

Begum Sultan Jahan, the Nawab Begum of Bhopal, was the great-grandmother of Saif Ali Khan. Sultan Jahan Begum is remembered by historians as a great reformer.

Not many know that Begum Sultan Jahan, the last Begum of Bhopal is among the illustrious ancestors of Saif Ali Khan.

Almost a century after Nawab Hamidullah Khan manipulated his mother to grab power, the curse of his widowed sister-in-law, Kaisar Dulhan—whose sons were the rightful heirs to the throne of ...

Saif Ali Khan, heir to the Pataudi royal lineage, traces his roots to Nawab Begum Sultan Jahan of Bhopal, a woman with great ...

Between the 14th and 19th centuries, when women’s journeys across the Indian Ocean were rarely documented, Mughal emperor ...

Saif’s grandfather, the 8th Nawab of Pataudi, Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, married Begum Sajida Sultan, the daughter of the Nawab of Bhopal, Hamidullah Khan. Sajida Sultan’s lineage can be ...

Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan and his family could potentially lose control of their ancestral properties in Bhopal, ...

The building is located in the east-west direction, which indicates Qudsia Begum, the first woman ruler of Bhopal, had adequate knowledge of Vaastu. The rooms facing the lake side are covered with ...

came to Bhopal to work for the reigning Begum Mamola. In 1829 Bhopal was officially a part of the Agra vicariate. It was Bishop Hartmann OFM Cap, who is considered as the founder of the Church of ...

The fate of properties worth Rs 15,000 crore owned by Bhopal's erstwhile rulers and inherited by actor Saif Ali Khan and his ...

Among Bhopal’s erstwhile rulers, one name which has been lost to history, or at least overlooked, is Begum Sultan Jahan, the last female Nawab of Bhopal, who wanted to transform the historic ...