Miyan Ali Shah

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Miyan Ali Shah
Sultan of India
Reign27 December 1952 – 3 June 1974
Coronation11 February 1953
SuccessorPosition abolished
Born28 October 1901
Moradabad, British India
Died9 September 1977 (age 75)
Ernestine-New Calcutta, Georgia

Miyan Ali Shah (28 October 1911 – 9 September 1977; Bansi: میاں علي خان) was an Indian nobleman and politician who was the first and only Sultan of India from his election in 1952 to his popular dethronement in 1974. Prior to assuming this position, he was the reigning Regent Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Dehli and Nawab of Sherkot from 1935 to 1944 under the name Miyan Ali Khan.

The former Sultan was born in 1901 to a family of Rohela nobility in northwestern British India. Due to his support of the Freedom and Fidelity Party throughout and after the Great War, he was elected Sultan of India in 1950 by the Temporary Indian Council, a position he would retain until his deposition in 1974 and the transformation of the country into a republic. For the last three years of his life, he resided in exile in Georgia.

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