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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Rampur    
First Name(s)  Kalb Ali Khan    
Titles, Honours, etc.  Sir Nawab Bahadur    
Birth Year  1834    
Death Year  1887    
Entry  Son of Nawab Muhammad Yusuf Ali Khan, whom he succeeded in 1865 : an able administrator : greatly developed his State : suffered constantly from ill health : Member of Governor-General's Legislative Council : in 1872 he went on a pilgrimage, leaving Rampur in charge of his Minister, Usman Khan, who was assassinated at the Jami Masjid. In 1875 he received the G.C.S.I. from H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, at Agra. In 1877 his salute was raised to 15 guns, as a personal distinction : made a C.I.E. in 1878, for his services during the famine : died March 23, 1887 : 100 persons daily attend his tomb to recite passages from the Koran : he was a man of great culture a Persian and Arabic scholar of repute, an active patron of literature and learning, and actively promoted education in Rampur : unlike his predecessors, he was a strict Sunni.     
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