Pirzadas
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Pirzada Muhammad Hasan
Pirzada Muhammad Hasan : (30.04.1869 – 16.09.1946)
(Buried in Basti Shaikh Darwesh, Jalandhar, India)
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| 1935 – Deewaan Charkhari State (CP, India) | 1929 – Deewaan- Baoni State (CP, India) | 1932-Bibi Jan (Saeeda Begum) | 1926 | 1918 (With Abdul Rasheed Pirzada on right) |
He was the youngest brother of Ghulam Qadir Asar, and the last from the lineage of ‘Ansaar- Danishmand- Pirzadas- Jalandhar, who was buried in Jalandhar, India. The name of his first wife was Bismillah Begum (1873-1908 – daughter of a Qureshi family from Amritsar who were traders by profession – her elder sister Mehboob Begum was the wife of Ghulam Qadir Asar – died at young age and was buried in the family Graveyard, Jalandhar). She was blessed with two sons (Ameer Hasan & Nazeer Hasan).
After the death of Bismillah Begum in 1908, Pirzada Muhammad Hasan got married again to a lady named Saeeda Begum (alias Bibi Jan – 1887-1952 – d/o Seth Allah Bux Qureshi of Amritsar – she was a maternal cousin of his first wife, died after partition and buried in Miani Sb Graveyard, Bahawalpur Rd Lahore). Bibi Jan was blessed with a daughter (Hameeda Akhtar – alias Babu Jan) and a son (Masood-ul-Hasan – alias Raja Mian).
The detail about all of them (3 sons & 1 daughter) will be presented in upcoming pages.
Qualifications & Career
| Year | Detail | Year | Detail |
| 1889 | Graduation (Arts)
Mission (FC) College, Lahore |
1891 | LLB
Punjab University, Lahore |
| 1892-1896 | Advocate Hight Court,
Amritsar Punjab |
1898–1906 | Collector & District Magistrate, Karnal State, Punjab |
| 1907-1911 | Collector & District Magistrate, Kurwai State (CP) | 1912–1920 | Chief Secretary, Karnal State, Punjab |
| 1920-1925 | Chief Secretary, Baoni State, (CP) | 1926–1929 | Chief Secretary & Judge, Manavader State, (CP) |
| 1929-1932 | Minister of State (Deewaan), Baoni State (CP) | 1932–1935 | Minister of State (Deewaan), Charkhari State (CP) |
He proved to be a learned and successful Advocate and afterwards he started his services in State & Government Departments. He possessed great qualities of running and handling the state affairs and enjoyed exceptional status among those who had acquired Modern European Education. His administrative/reforming abilities were acknowledged / admired by the Britishers as well as, by the Nawabs of States wherever he rendered his services.
LRF Rush Brook William (Foreign Minister of Patyala State), in his book “Ministers in Indian States”, and a Journalist R. Venkola Rao MELA London mentioned the name of “Pirzada Muhammad Hasan” also with the names of other dignitaries from India in 1928 (Image below).
موج بن جاؤ تم بھی اے ساجد
لب اگر چومنے ہیں ساحل کے
{ “Sajid”, disguise as tidal wave, be sure
So you will kiss the lips of shore }
About the prominent Offspring:
Out of his 3 sons/1 daughter, Pirzada Ameer Hasan (pictured below) earned a nice reputation for the Pirzada family and served as “Deewaan of Kurwai”, CP India.
