Sachin State

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Field	Value
native_name	સચીન રિયાસત
سچن ریاست
conventional_long_name	Sachin State
common_name	Sachin
nation	British India
subdivision	Princely State
year_start	1791
year_end	1948
event_end	Independence of India
s1	India
flag_s1	Flag of India.svg
image_flag	Flag of the Sachin State.svg
image_map	Surat Agency with all princely states with labels British India 1880-1933.svg
image_map_caption	Sachin State (pink) within Surat Agency
stat_area1	127
stat_year1	1931
stat_pop1	22,107
capital	Sachin
today	Surat district, Gujarat State
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The Sachin State (; ) was a princely state belonging to the Surat Agency, former Khandesh Agency, of the Bombay Presidency during the era of the British Raj. Its capital was in Sachin, the southernmost town of present-day Surat district of Gujarat State.

History

Maharaja of Parmar Rajputs had established the State of Sachin. Sachin state was invaded on 6 June 1791. Though over 85% of the subjects were Hindu, the state was ruled by Sunni Muslims of the Siddi dynasty of Danda-Rajpuri and Janjira State. The Siddi dynasty is of Abyssinian (Habesha) origin.

Sachin State was under the protection of the Maratha Peshwa until it became a British protectorate. It had its own cavalry, currency, and stamped paper, as well as a state band that included Africans.

Fatma Begum (1892–1983), one of the early superstars of Hindi cinema and India's first female film director, was married to Nawab Sidi Ibrahim Muhammad Yakut Khan III of Sachin State later she divorced him when she started acting as the Nawab did not approve of her choice to pursue a career in acting and stage dramas, as it was not considered a respectable profession for women from affluent families at that time. In response to his disapproval, she divorced him and took custody of her three daughters, whom she later introduced to the film industry. Sultana, the daughter of Fatima Begum, became a leading figure in early Indian movies. Zubeida, leading actress of India's first talkie film Alam Ara (1931), was her younger sister.

Nawab Sidi Ibrahim Muhammad Yakut Khan III, Sachin State's last ruler, signed the accession to join the Indian Union on 8 March 1948. The state then became part of Surat district in Bombay Province.

After the Partition of India, Zubaida stayed in India, while her sister Sultana moved to Pakistan where she married and had a daughter, Jamila Razzaq, who became a prominent Pakistani actress in the decade between the mid-1950s and the mid-1960s.

Rulers

The rulers of Sachin State bore the title 'Nawab' and were granted the right of a 9 gun salute by the British authorities.

Nawabs

6 Jun 1791 – 9 July 1802 Abdul Karim Mohammad Yakut Khan I (b. 17.. – d. 1802)
9 July 1802 – 25 March 1853 Ibrahim Mohammad Yakut Khan I (d. 1853)
25 Mar 1853 – 1 December 1868 Abdul Karim Mohammad Yakut Khan II (b. 1802 – d. 1868)
1 December 1868 – 4 March 1873 Ibrahim Mohammad Yakut Khan II (b. 1833 – d. 1873)
4 March 1873 – 7 January 1887 Abdul Kadir Khan (b. 1865 – d. 1896)
4 March 1873 – Jul 1886 .... -Regent
7 February 1887 – 19 November 1930 Ibrahim Mohammad Yakut Khan III (b. 1886 – d. 1930)
7 February 1887 – 4 May 1907 .... -Regent
19 Nov 1930 – 15 August 1947 Muhammad Haider Khan (b. 1909 – d. 1970) 1887 - 1930 Major H.H. Mubariz ud-Daula, Muzaffar ul-Mulk, Nawab Sidi Ibrahim Muhammad Yakut Khan III Bahadur, Nusrat Jang, Nawab of Sachin. b. at Sachin Fort, 23rd November 1886, as Nawabzada Sidi Najaf ‘Ali Khan Bahadur, eldest son of H.E. Mubariz ud-Daula, Muzaffar ul-Mulk, Nawab Sidi ‘Abdu’l Kadir Khan Bahadur, Nusrat Jang, Nawab of Sachin, by his wife, Nawab Sulaiman un-nisa Begum Sahiba, educ. Rajkumar Coll, Rajkot, Mayo Coll, Ajmer, with the Imperial Cadet Corps, Dehra Dun, and at the Inns of Court, London. --==See also==
Siddis of Gujarat
Surat Agency
Political integration of India

References

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[http://bmmann-filmyindia.blogspot.com/2014/05/jamila-razzaq-and-zubaida.html Jamila Razzaq and Zubaida] {{webarchive. link. (11 October 2015)
(6 February 2019). "African Rulers in Indian History: Sachin, Gurjarat".

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