This web page contains some memorable Events and Experiences of the past, described by some people from the family of (Late) Col. M.Asad Ali Khan of Rampur State.
Lt. Col. Sarfaraz Ahmed Siddiqi wrote on February 27, 2014:-
A highly appreciated effort with suggestion to incorporate
the following
amendments for correction of record:-
Slide-3: Correct spellings are Major Iqbal Ahmed Siddiqi.
Slide-4: Correct name Sultan Zaman Begum , not Zamani.
Slide-8: Correct spellings are Major Iqbal Ahmed Siddiqi.
Slide-11: (a) Child annotated as Naheed Aapa is Seema D/o Asif Jehan
(b) Mansoor Ali Khan is the one on left not in the middle,& girl on the
right is Naheed Khala.
Slide-19: Photo is of a Military exercise area and not of 2nd World War.
Makki Sahab replied on March 02, 2014:-
The above corrections have been incorporated in the album "The Old Memories"
Dr Sajid Ali Khan explained about the two photographs of his mother in the "Album.pdf" on Tues, Feb 25, 2014 :-
Great but when you find a spare moment kindly give my true date of birth: 1931. I am only 83+ 18 days on the way to 84. You have added one year but thanks for putting all that effort into nostalgia, such as sight of my Epsom College blazer with Amma and Apa in our rear garden in 136 West Bridge Road, Battersea, near Battersea Park, in summer. Photo by my father, Dr Ahmed Ali Khan, former personal physician to Nawab Raza Ali Khan. Photo using the famous 'Brownie' box camera which with its fixed focus gave much delight and satisfaction to my father
This particular photo in our Battersea home probably taken in the summer of 1944.All the family physically unscathed from the ravages of the London Blitz (there had been a bomb in our garden about 20 yards to the left of the photo, and, of course, our windows had been blown out.) As I said, pure nostalgia. Thanks.
Dr Sajid Ali Khan wrote on Sun, 23 Feb 2014 (Email:- sajidalikhan@hotmail.com, sajidalikhan@dunelm.co.uk):-
Some time between February 6th 1931 when I was born in the house of my grandfather in Rampur State and September 1937 when with my mother, I arrived in London (just two years before the devastating World War 2 and the blitz on London.), I had the pleasant experience of being taken on horseback along the bank of the river Kosi, by my mamoo, (your father Capt S A Khan). Just one of many anecdotes from my preferred mailing address,sajidk@dunelm.org.uk
For some completion: Nasir was born in London in June 1939,
Hamid in Bath in Somerset in Decembee 1940 and
Jamila in June 1942 also in London.
I can add an important item which I only learnt more or less the last time I was in Rampur from my mother's younger sister (Badrujahan) who was the last person to know: her first-hand account was that my grandfather had accompanied his daughter and granddaughter and grandson (me) to Bombay where the ship left for England, crying all the way back to Rampur (according to Badrujahan.) I found that very moving.
Web Page Created on 25-02-2014 and maintained by Makki Sahab