Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi

Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Nawab of Pataudi
Titular	1952–1971
Predecessor	Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi
Head of the Pataudi dynasty
Tenure	1971-2011
Successor	Saif Ali Khan
Born	Mohammad Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi; 5 January 1941; Bhopal, Bhopal State, British India (present-day Madhya Pradesh, India)
Died	22 September 2011 (aged 70); Delhi, India
Burial	Pataudi, Haryana, India
Spouse	Sharmila Tagore (m. 1968)
Issue	Saif Ali Khan (son); Saba Ali Khan (daughter); Soha Ali Khan (daughter);
House	Pataudi
Father	Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi
Mother	Sajida Sultan
Religion	Islam
Occupation	Cricketer
Cricket information
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm medium
International information
National side	India;
Test debut (cap 104)	13 December 1961 v England
Last Test	23 January 1975 v West Indies
Domestic team information
1957–1970	Sussex
1960–1964	Delhi
1965–1975	Hyderabad
Career statistics
	Source: ESPNcricinfo, 27 September 2011

Nawab Mohammad Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (also known as Mansur Ali Khan, or M. A. K. Pataudi; 5 January 1941 – 22 September 2011; nicknamed Tiger Pataudi) was an Indian cricketer and a former captain of the Indian cricket team.

Pataudi was appointed India's cricket captain at the age of 21, and described as "one of (its) greatest".^[1] Pataudi was also called the "best fielder in the world" of his time by commentator John Arlott and former England captain and contemporary, Ted Dexter.^[2]

Mansur Ali Khan was the son of Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, the last ruler of the princely state of Pataudi during the British Raj. After the death of his father in 1952, Pataudi succeeded him in receiving a privy purse, certain privileges, and the use of the title "Nawab of Pataudi" under terms accepted earlier when princely states were absorbed into independent India.^[3] However, all were ended in 1971 by the 26th Amendment to the Constitution of India.^[4]^[5]^[6] He received the C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001, the highest honour bestowed by BCCI on a former player.^[7]

^ "A passage to Mayfair". The Economist. 27 July 2013.
^ "Dexter dubs Pataudi world's best fieldsman". The Indian Express. 29 August 1963. p. 10.
^ Ramusack, Barbara N. (2004). The Indian princes and their states. Cambridge University Press. p. 273. ISBN 978-0-521-26727-4. The crucial document was the Instrument of Accession by which rulers ceded to the legislatures of India or Pakistan control over defence, external affairs, and communications. In return for these concessions, the princes were to be guaranteed a privy purse in perpetuity and certain financial and symbolic privileges such as exemption from customs duties, the use of their titles, the right to fly their state flags on their cars, and to have police protection. ... By December 1947 Patel began to pressure the princes into signing Merger Agreements that integrated their states into adjacent British Indian provinces, soon to be called states or new units of erstwhile princely states, most notably Rajasthan, Patiala and East Punjab States Union, and Matsya Union (Alwar, Bharatpur, Dholpur and Karaulli).
^ "The Constitution (26 Amendment) Act, 1971", indiacode.nic.in, Government of India, 1971, retrieved 9 November 2011
^ Ramusack, Barbara N. (2004). The Indian princes and their states. Cambridge University Press. p. 278. ISBN 978-0-521-26727-4. Through a constitutional amendment passed in 1971, Indira Gandhi stripped the princes of the titles, privy purses and regal privileges which her father's government had granted.
^ Schmidt, Karl J. (1995). An atlas and survey of South Asian history. M.E. Sharpe. p. 78. ISBN 978-1-56324-334-9. Although the Indian states were alternately requested or forced into union with either India or Pakistan, the real death of princely India came when the Twenty-sixth Amendment Act (1971) abolished the princes' titles, privileges, and privy purses.
^ "C.K. Nayudu award for Kapil Dev". The Hindu. 18 December 2013. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 25 April 2023.

[1] "A passage to Mayfair". The Economist. 27 July 2013.

[2] "Dexter dubs Pataudi world's best fieldsman". The Indian Express. 29 August 1963. p. 10.

[ramusack-pol-integration-3] Ramusack, Barbara N. (2004). The Indian princes and their states. Cambridge University Press. p. 273. ISBN 978-0-521-26727-4. The crucial document was the Instrument of Accession by which rulers ceded to the legislatures of India or Pakistan control over defence, external affairs, and communications. In return for these concessions, the princes were to be guaranteed a privy purse in perpetuity and certain financial and symbolic privileges such as exemption from customs duties, the use of their titles, the right to fly their state flags on their cars, and to have police protection. ... By December 1947 Patel began to pressure the princes into signing Merger Agreements that integrated their states into adjacent British Indian provinces, soon to be called states or new units of erstwhile princely states, most notably Rajasthan, Patiala and East Punjab States Union, and Matsya Union (Alwar, Bharatpur, Dholpur and Karaulli).

[4] "The Constitution (26 Amendment) Act, 1971", indiacode.nic.in, Government of India, 1971, retrieved 9 November 2011

[5] Ramusack, Barbara N. (2004). The Indian princes and their states. Cambridge University Press. p. 278. ISBN 978-0-521-26727-4. Through a constitutional amendment passed in 1971, Indira Gandhi stripped the princes of the titles, privy purses and regal privileges which her father's government had granted.

[6] Schmidt, Karl J. (1995). An atlas and survey of South Asian history. M.E. Sharpe. p. 78. ISBN 978-1-56324-334-9. Although the Indian states were alternately requested or forced into union with either India or Pakistan, the real death of princely India came when the Twenty-sixth Amendment Act (1971) abolished the princes' titles, privileges, and privy purses.

[:5-7] "C.K. Nayudu award for Kapil Dev". The Hindu. 18 December 2013. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 25 April 2023.

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