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|name=Mirza Jalaluddin 
|title=[[Zamindar of Natore]]
|image=SahabzadeMirzaJalaladdinMuhammadMridhaSahab1952Rajshyhe.jpg
|caption = Mridha Sahib after the [[East Bengal State Acquisition and Tenancy Act of 1950|abolition of the Zamindari in 1951]]
|full name=Mirza Muhammad Jalaluddin Mridha Sahib of Singra and Natore
|spouse=Jamila Begum Sahiba
|issue=[[Gulbadan Begum of Natore]] (heir)<br>4 sons and a daughter.
|royal house=[[Singranatore family|House of Singra-Natore]]
|father=[[Mirza Zafar|Muhammad Mirza Jafaar, Zamindar of Natore]]
|mother=
|birth_date=4 August 1898
|birth_place=Mridha Mahal Palace, [[Bengal]], [[British Empire]]
|death_date=May 1975
|death_place= [[Bangladesh]]
|place of burial=[[Natore]], Bangladesh
|}}
[[Sahibzada]] '''Mīrzā Mu'hammad Jalāl ud-Dīn''' [[Mridha]] [[Sahib]] ({{lang-ur|جلال الدینہ محمد میرزا}}), better known as '''Jalaluddin Mirza''' (1898-1975), was a [[Bengali people|Bengali]] [[Indian people|Indian]] aristocrat in the erstwhile [[British Empire]] who served as the fifth and last hereditary [[Zamindar of Natore]] from the [[Singranatore family|House of Singra and Natore]] before it was [[East Bengal State Acquisition and Tenancy Act of 1950|abolished in 1951]].

==Early life==
He was born in 1898 as the son of [[Sahibzada]] [[Mirza Zafar|Muhammad Mirza Jafaar]] (1876-1921) and his principle first wife, in [[Mirza Mahal]] palace in [[Natore]] and educated at the [[Rajshahi Collegiate School]] alongside the [[Dighapatia Raj|Dighapatia princes]]. He was named by his grandfather [[Sahibzada]] [[Zahir Shah Mirza]] (1855-1899) after his illustrious ancestor [[Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar|Mirza Jalaluddin Muhammad]] (1542-1605), 3rd [[Mughal Emperor]] . Mirza married Jamila Begum.

==Background==
His father served as the "[[Mridha]]" or the Military Governor to the [[Rajshahi Raj family|Maharaja of Rajshahi]], while he paid tributary to the [[Dighapatia Raj|Maharaja of Dighapatia]] as a ''[[Madhyasvatva]]'' (subinfeudated or [[vassal]]) as after his father death he took over the dignitaries as the ''[[zamindar]]''. One of the few Muslim [[zamindari]] in [[Natore]], during the [[Partition of India]] in 1947 the newly formed Islamic [[Dominion of Pakistan|Government of Pakistan]] favored Muslim families and especially when [[Partition of Bengal (1947)|Bengal was split]] the old Hindu [[Raja]]s (Kings) of [[East Bengal]] left resulting in most of the neighboring estates coming under him and his full brothers. From his father's death in 1921 till his election as the Zamindar in 1932, his brothers managed the [[Singranatore estate]].

===Death and legacy===
He died in 1975 and his oldest child [[Gulbadan Begum of Natore]] (1923-2005) succeeded him as the head of the [[Singranatore family]]. In 1950 during the abolition, the Singra Natore Zamindari was at its fullest extent, annexing villages formerly governed by High caste Hindu families. Most of his children were married off to notable land holding and feudal noble families of aristocratic lines.

An educationalist and philanthropist, he was  a [[patron]] and educator of the [[Rajshahi Collegiate School]], the oldest school of the [[Indian Subcontinent]]. He donated lands towards the building of many schools. The first College of Singra, [[Gole Afroz College]] was named after his oldest granddaughter and was established in [[East Pakistan]]. After the [[Bangladesh Liberation War|war of 1971]], the college was personally nationalized by [[Hussain Muhammad Ershad]], the [[President of Bangladesh]] in 1986.

==See also==
* [[Zamindars of Bengal]]

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==Sources==
* {{cite book
| last                  = Chowdhury
| first                 = S. R. Kumar
| last2               = P. K. 
| first2              = Singh
| last3               = Ismail
| first3              = M. Ali 
| title                 = Blood Dynasties: Zemindaris of Bengal - A Chronicle of Bengal’s Ruling families
| type                  = Paperback
| year                  = 2012
| publisher             = Dictus: Politics and Democracy series.
| isbn                  = 9783847385080 
}}

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