Maddad Khan Tanoli

Maddad Khan Tanoli
Jagirdar Jagir or Zamindar Feudal Landlord
Shared De-Facto Ruler by his brother of State of Amb
Born	(1809-07-012)12 July 1809 Amb, Amb State
Died	(1888-10-06)6 October 1888 Darband, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Burial	Darband, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Issue	Abdullah Khan Tanoli. Arsla Khan Tanoli. Hussain Khan Tanoli. Ameer Khan Tanoli. Unknown
Dynasty	Tanoli
Father	Mir Nawab Khan Tanoli
Religion	Sunni Islam
Military career
Battles / wars	Battle of Nowshera * Second Anglo-Sikh War

Maddad Khan Tanoli (1809-1888) was the younger brother of Mir Painda Khan. ^[1] He played a considerable part in fighting the Sikh Empire with Painda Khan, ^[2] who gave Maddad Khan land as Jagirdar. ^[3]

One of his descendants Atta Muhammad Khan Tanoli who was the grandson of Abdullah Khan Tanoli created a princely state named Phulra in 1919. ^{[4] [5] [6]} One of his grandson Safiullah Khan Tanoli, who was the son of Hussain Khan Tanoli, was a minister in Amb state with Nawab Khan zaman Khan Tanoli and later his successor Muhammad Farid Khan Tanoli. ^[7]

References

1. Richard Burns, ed. Imperial Gazetteer of India, vol. 23 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908), Page Number. 219. British news
2. The Imperial Gazetteer of North-West Frontier Province, p. 138
3. Imperial Gazette of India 1888. Herald published 2006.
4. Amiya Ranjan Mukherjee, Current Affairs (1958), p. 337
5. Memoranda on the Indian States (Published by Authority, 1939), p. 215
6. Sir Terence Creagh Coen, The Indian Political Service: A Study in Indirect Rule (1971), p. 144
7. Military Career and books in Amb state Volume.