Muhammad Amir Muhammad Khan fought India’s government for five decades
The still-dispossessed Rajah of Mahmudabad died on October 4th, aged 80
The bad news came when Suleiman was 14. He was at La Martinière College in Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, where the sons of the wealthy went and where he, being fond already of poetry and philosophy, spent his time discovering and memorising the plangent quotations he later loved to drop into conversations. It was the end of term. The news was that his father, the Rajah of Mahmudabad, had left for Pakistan and become a Pakistani citizen.
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This article appeared in the Obituary section of the print edition under the headline “A foe who never was”
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