Mumbai Court March 1879 Judgments

Sayad Mir UjmuddIn Khan, Legal Representative of Fatma-ul-nissa Begam ...

Court: Mumbai

Reported in: ILR1879NULL287

James W. Colvile, J.1. The question in this appeal regards the succession to one Amir-ul-Nissa Begam who died in 1857. The short history of the case is this: Afzaluddin, who was the last recognized Nawab of Surat, died on the 8th August 1842. He left two wives, Amir-ul-Nissa Begam and Padsha Begam. He also left a daughter, Bakhtiar-ul-Nissa Begam, whom we may take, for the purpose of this decision, to have been born on the 13th March 1821, some four years before the marriage of Afzaluddin with Amir-ul-Nissa Begam. Bakhtiar-ul-Nissa Begam had been married in her father's lifetime to Mir Jafir Aly, and the issue of that marriage was two daughters, the respondents. Immediately after the death of the Nawab in 1842 there arose considerable discussion regarding the right of succession to him, and there was a contest before one of the Government officers, Mr. Elliott, on that subject. No final decision, however, appears to have been come to until after the passing of Act XVIII of 1848, which ...