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{{Infobox royalty<br />
| name = Abbas Ali Meerza<br />
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| succession = [[Nawab of Murshidabad|Nawab Bahadur of Murshidabad]]<br />
| reign = 13 August 2014 – present ''([[pretender]])''<br />
| birth_place = [[Murshidabad]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British Raj]] (now Murshidabad, [[West Bengal]], [[India]])<br />
| house = Najafi Dynasty<br />
| father = Mohammed Sadeque Ali Mirza<br />
| mother = Hashmat un-nisa Begum<br />
| predecessor = [[Waris Ali Mirza|Syed Mohammed Waris Ali Meerza Khan Bahadur]]<br />
| religion = [[Shia Islam]]<br />
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'''Syed Mohammed Abbas Ali Meerza''' ({{lang-bn|সৈয়দ মোহাম্মদ আব্বাস আলী মির্জা}}; born 1942)<ref name = "one">{{cite web|author=Times of India|date=20 August 2014|title=Murshidabad gets a Nawab again, but fight for assets ahead|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Murshidabad-gets-a-Nawab-again-but-fight-for-assets-ahead/articleshow/40434802.cms|accessdate=12 March 2015}}</ref> is the heir of the last [[Nawab of Murshidabad|Nawab Bahadur of Murshidabad]]. He has been so since the [[Supreme Court of India]] declared him to be the lawful heir in August 2014. The royal title had been in [[abeyance]] since the death of his maternal uncle [[Waris Ali Mirza|Waris Ali Meerza]] (the third Nawab Bahadur of Murshidabad) in 1969.<ref name = "one"/> All the royal title such as Nawab have been abolished by the government of India in 1971.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/saif-to-become-tenth-nawab-of-pataudi/story-AJ0zcz3tIsUouPQOK4q2yI.html|title=Saif to become tenth Nawab of Pataudi|date=21 October 2011|website=Hindustan Times|accessdate=13 April 2020}}</ref><br />
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== Early life ==<br />
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Abbas Ali Meerza is the eldest son of Syed Md. Sadeque Ali Meerza (d.1959) and Sahibzadi Hashmat un-nisa Begum (d.1995),{{cn|date=June 2020}} a daughter of [[Wasif Ali Mirza|Wasif Ali Meerza]], the second Nawab Bahadur of Murshidabad.<ref name = "two">{{cite web|author=Times of India|date=22 August 2014|title=Portrait of an accidental Nawab|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Portrait-of-an-accidental-Nawab/articleshow/40618038.cms|accessdate=13 March 2015}}</ref> Abaas Ali Meerza's paternal grandmother, Khurshid un-nisa Begum Sahiba (who married Syed Zaigham Meerza) is again the daughter of the first Nawab Bahadur of Murshidabad, [[Hassan Ali Mirza|Hassan Ali Meerza]], the grandfather of Waris Ali Meerza.<br />
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== Title ==<br />
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The title would have been passed down to the children of Waris Ali Meerza upon his death in 1969 had they not been either disinherited by their father, predeceased him or had excluded themselves from the succession under Indian law by adopting foreign citizenship.<br />
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Waris Ali Meerza died in 1969, survived by his three sons and three daughters. According to the Nawab's law, the eldest son of the Nawab was to succeed him, however, Waris Ali's eldest son, Wakif Ali Meerza, was excluded from succession by his father for contracting a non-Muslim marriage and for not professing the Muslim religion. Waris Ali took no steps during his lifetime to establish his succession. Before declaring a successor Waris Ali then died.<br />
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No clear successor to Waris Ali emerged. The other children of Waris Ali moved to the United Kingdom and became citizens, sacrificing any claim over the title. A legal battle ensued, in which Abbas Ali Meerza won, making the then 72-year-old the fourth Nawab Bahadur of Murshidabad.<ref name = "two"/><br />
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<blockquote>''"I have links on both sides. My mother was the daughter of the second Nawab Bahadur while my father was his nephew. I thus received the title that would have gone to my cousins had they not settled in England."''<br>Abbas Ali Mirza Khan Bahadur, Nawab of Murshidabad<ref name="two"/></blockquote><br />
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The Nawab, who lives in [[Murshidabad]], launched a separate legal challenge to see his that his family's ancestral property, the Murshidbad Estate (the private and personal properties of the Nawab Bahadur of Murshidabad), which under an Act was passed on to the [[West Bengal|state government of West Bengal]] be returned.<ref name="one"/><br />
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* {{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Portrait-of-an-accidental-Nawab/articleshow/40618038.cms|title=Portrait of an accidental Nawab|work=The Times of India}}<br />
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