The following is an incomplete chronological list of selected recipients: • 1881:
Khan Bahadur Khuda Bakhsh C.I.E, Former Chief Justice of
Hyderabad State, Founder of
Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library •
Raja Mir Syed Muhammad Baquar Ali Khan C.I.E. of
Morni, Kotaha and
Pindrawal • 1887:
Nawab Sirjaul Islam • 1891: Khan Bahadur Malik Zaman Mehdi Khan of Darapur, Jhelum.* 1891: Mian Ghulam Farid Khan Bahadur, former Extra-Assistant Commissioner in Punjab and Honorary Magistrate of Batala. •
Khan Bahadur Khalifullah Rowther Sahib,
Dewan of
Pudukkottai State • 1898: Khan Bahadur Humayun Beg Wazir of Hunza. • 1903: Khan Bahadur Din Muhammad, Extra Assistant Commissioner, Kasur, in the Lahore District of the Punjab. • 1905:
Muhammad Habibullah was awarded the title of Khan Bahadur by the Indian government • 1912: Khan Bahadur Sayed Rustom Ali (Registrar, Court of the Political Resident, Aden). • 1912: Khan Bahadur Nadir Husain, District Superintendent of Police, Bengal. • 1914: Khan Bahadur Muhammad Hira Khan (Civil Engineer from University of Roorkee (Gold Medalist); Supervisor, Public Works Department, Lucknow, United Provinces. • 1919: Khan Bahadur Muhammad Hussain Khan Swati, 5th Chief of
Swati tribe. presented to Khan Muhammad Hussain Khan Swati in 1916, the second shield is of Khan Bahadur presented to same person in 1921 while the third shield of
Khan Sahib was presented to his nephew Khan Muhammad Aslam Khan Swati (7th Chief of
Swati tribe). Picture is taken from a wall of Chief of Swati house at
Garhi Habibullah] • 1921
Khan Sahib Sir Mohammad Usman of Madras was conferred the title of Khan Bahadur. He was later conferred the title of
Knight Commander Order of the Indian Empire. Sir Mohammad Usman became the first Indian acting
Governor of Madras Presidency and a member of the
Viceroy's Executive Council. • 1923: Khan Bahadur Mian Muhammad Said, Bar-at-law, British-Indian Police and Minister in Royal State of Kapurthala. • 1925: Khan Bahadur Maulvi Gada Husain (retired), Deputy Collector, United Provinces., full name Munshi Gada Husain (b. 1867). Earlier, as part of the 1922 King's Birthday Honours, Munshi Gada Husain was given the title of Khan Sahib by Viceroy and Governor-General, Rufus Isaacs, and in April 1923, he was nominated to the Ghazipur District Board. • 1925: Khan Bahadur Maulvi Alimuzzaman Chaudhuri. M.L.C. Landholder and Chairman, District Board and Municipality, Faridpur. • 1929: Khan Bahadur Major General
Fateh Naseeb Khan,
Senapati,
Alwar State,
Rajputana • 1930: Khan Bahadur Raja Muhammad Akram Khan of Jhelum; also awarded Khan Sahib. Member Punjab Legislative Assembly. • 1930: Khan Bahadur Syed Niaz Qutb (also spelled as Qutab), Postmaster General. • 1932: Khan Bahadur Maulvi Muhammad Fazlul Karim, Magistrate, collector, and administrator of Refugees, Bengal. • 1933: Khan Bahadur Chaudhry Irshadullah Ranjha, Member Legislative Assembly, Chief of Ranjha tribe, Honorary Magistrate. • 1934: Khan Bahadur
Abdur Rahman Khan, Divisional Inspector of Schools. • 1936: Khan Bahadur
Khalifa Mohammad Asadullah, the first Muslim and second Indian to run the Imperial Library of the Raj in
Calcutta and the first Indian to become a fellow of the
Library Association, London. • 1937:
Sheikh Abdullah (1874–1965), Indian educationalist, social reformer, lawyer, and the founder of
Women's College, Aligarh. • 1938: Khan Bahadur Waliur Rahman, Planter and Proprietor of several tea gardens in Duars, Assam. • 1939: Khan Bahadur Muhammad Humayun, District Collector 1937–1939, ICS — Nellore. • 1940: Khan Bahadur Maulvi Muhammad Yahya (retired), Deputy Magistrate, Deputy Collector and Chief Manager, Dacca Nawab Estate. • 1941: Khan Bahadur Sardar Abdul Samad Khan, Magistrate of Punjab and Delhi. • 1942: Khan Bahadur
Yousof Hossain Chaudhury, vice-president, District School Board, Faridpur. [19] [The chieftains of Punjab] [The Gazette of Attock 1970]. • 1943: Khan Bahadur
Aziz al-Hasan Ghouri ; Zoroastrian recipients • Khan Bahadur
Ardeshir Irani, director of the first Indian talkie picture
Alam Ara. • Khan Bahadur Sir
Kavasji Katrak, Parsi businessman and philanthropist. ==See also==