Basic Information
(During
Brutish Rule)
Title :Nawab
Race :Daudputra(Abbasi)
Religion :Muslim
Size :15,000 square miles
Gun Salute 1912 : 17
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Basic Information
(After 1954)
Today Status :Division
Local Language :Saraiki
& Punjabi
Districts :Bahawalpur, RahimYarKhan,BahawalNagar
Short History
Successor-state of the Mogul Empire in Punjab, under Nawabs of the
Daudputra family,
founded in 1739 and abolished by independent Pakistan in
1954.
Head of the Sovereign
Family:
HH Nawab
Bahawal Khan Abbasi, The Ameer of Bahawalpur
Today Head of the Sovereign
Family:
HH Nawab Salauddin Ahmad
Khan Abbasi, 14th Ameer of Bahawalpur since 27/7/1946
to 17/1/2003
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