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This page is about the dynasty. For the natural and historical region, see Atrauli.

The Nawab of Atrauli, also known as Nawab of Atrauli, and Atrauli State, was located in north-eastern historic region of Atrauli and was ruled by the Sheikhzada clan.

Atrauli State was a Large princely state in India, established in 1857 by the East India Company rule in India.

The state formed a part of the Delhi Territory in the Ceded and Conquered Provinces. It was under the suzerainty of the Commissioner of Delhi. It had an area of 315.79 square miles and included one town, Atrauli, and 241 villages, ruled by the Sheikhzada family.

History

The term Nawab of Atrauli refers to the lineage of rulers of the former princely Atrauli State in North- Eastern India. Atrauli was established in 1857 by the British East India Company, when Muhammad Ali, an Saudi Arabia Muslim Banu Taym of the Arab tribe, who was made the first Nawab. The family traces their origin to 16th century India, when their ancestors immigrated from present-day Saudi Arabia to india during the Mughal Empire.

At the end of the British Raj and with the political integration of India in 1948, the princely state of Atrauli was absorbed into the new Dominion of India (later Republic of India). In 1971, by virtue of the 26th amendment to the Constitution of India, the Government of India abolished all official symbols of princely India, including titles, privileges, and remuneration (privy purses).

SIKRI

It belongs to a good family of Sheikhzada's, who have resided here for a long time. Many of them have been and are in Government Service, and one of them, Muhammad Ali, was the First Native Joint Magistrate in these Provinces, being Appointed to that Post in 1857, when he was sent to Atrauli in Aligarh, Where he was killed by the rebels.

ATRAULI

The Capital of the Atrauli Pargana and Tahsil is a considerable town standing in 28°2'N. and 78°17'E., on the south side of the road from Aligarh to Ramghat and Moradabad, at a distance of sixteen miles north- east from the district headquarters. The road is metalled for about a mile beyond Atrauli, and from it three branches enter the town, converging on the central market-place. From Atrauli a metalled road loads in a north-westerly direction for some five miles to the railway station known as Atrauli Road in the village of Raipur, thence continuing to Pindrawal in the Bulandshahr district. Unmetalled roads lead to Sankra and to Dadon on the east, to Gangiri and Kasganj on the south-east and to Barla and Datauli on the south.

The place is said to derive its name from the founder, one Uttara Kunwar, an unknown chieftain of the twelfth century. It is mentioned as one of the halting-places of Mubarak Shah in 1426, when he was engaged in fighting with the Sultan of Jaunpur. In the days of Akbar it gave its name to a pargana, then held by Bargujars, whose descendants became Musalmans and were long notorious for their turbulent disposition. Under the Marathas the town was the headquarters of an amil, who resided in the old fort built on the raised central site. There are the remains of another fort close to the town on the south-west. The Bargujars caused much trouble during the Mutiny, seizing the town and holding it till September 1857. In that month Muhammad Ali, a devoted servant of the Government and a member of a good Sheikh family of Sikri in Muzaffarnagar, was deputed to Atrauli as Joint Magistrate, but the rebels refused to acknowledge his authority, and on the 25th of September they rose and murdered Muhammad Ali at the gate of the tahsil. The place was afterwards visited with condign punishment, and several of the ringleaders were hanged.

The tahsil for administrative purposes forms a subdivision in charge of a full-powered officer on the district staff. The tahsildar and sub-registrar are stationed at Atrauli, but the original civil jurisdiction is vested in the munsif of Haveli Aligarh, sitting at the district headquarters. At the present time there are two Honorary Magistrates, Haji Muhammad Muzammil-ullah Khan, Khan Bahadur, and Habib-ur- Rahman Khan, both of whom sit at Bhikampur. For police purposes the area is now divided between the circles of Atrauli, Dadon and Barla, the Gangiri thanx having been abolished recently. It is proposed to move the police station from Barla to Datauli.

Since that date Atrauli has steadily improved, and is now a thriving town with a considerable trade. The population numbered 12,722 persons in 1847 and 15,410 in 1853; and, though it had fallen to 15,053 by 1866, it was 15,941 in 1872, again dropping to 14,482 in 1881. Ten years later, however, it was 15,408, and in 1901 the place contained 16,561 inhabitants, of whom 9,562 were Hindus, 6,790 Musalmans and 209 of other religions.

List of rulers

All rulers bore the title of Nawab.The list of rulers and titular rulers are as follows:

Rulers

• Nawab Muhammad Ali (b.1821-d.1857)
• Nawab Haji Muhammad Muzammil-Ullah Khan (b.1857-d.1898)
• Nawab Habib-Ur-Rahman Khan (b.1898-d.1917)

He merged Atrauli State in Union of India in the year 1949 .

Titular rulers

He merged Atrauli State in Union of India in the year 1948.(Just as titular nawab after merging with India).

• Nawab Muhammad Mansoor Ali

Other family members

• Bhikampur and Datawali (Aligarh) State

Atrauli Residency

See also:United Provinces of Agra and Oudh

The Atrauli Residency was established in the year 1821. It included the states of Atrauli, Pargana and an estate of Pargana. The latter had belonged to the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh.

See also

• History of United Provinces of Agra and Oudh
• Atrauli
• Atrauli and (Aligarh) State

Notes

1. In 1948, after India's independence and the state's accession to the Dominion of India under terms agreed to during the Political integration of India, Nawab Muhammad Mansoor Ali was granted a privy purse, certain privileges, and the use of the title Nawab of Atrauli by the Government of India.