Mirza Muhammad Zahiruddin Shah bin Mirza Muhammad Jalal Shah bin Mirza Muhammad Jahan Shah Bahadur bin Sultan Ibn Sultan Sahib al-Mufazi Wali Ni'mat Haqiqi Khudavand Mujazi Abu Nasir Mu'in al-Din Muhammad Mirza Akbar Shah Pad-Shah Ghazi
He was given land grants by the British administrators as a lord (Zamindar) of the villages in East Bengal and served as the "Mridha" or the Minister to the Maharaja of Rajshahi under whom he was subinfeudated. With the decline of the Natore Zamindari, he received areas and villages formerly under the Hindu ruling family.
Death and legacy
In the early 1870s, in neighboring estates in Natore, he provided support to the local governors and zamindars in crushing the Pabna revolts by the peasantry. In Pabna, he was a patron and participant in the Chalanbeel Horse Races. After his death in 1899, the estates of the family were expanded by his son and grandsons to become one of the few Muslim zamindars in the area. After the abolition of the lord-peasant system in 1950, members of the family held important positions in regional politics and local governance.
His son, Mirza Zafar, succeeded him as the Zamindar. His office of the Mridha went to younger sons who dominated politics in Rajshahi and Natore well into the twenty-first century, such as Ibrahim Ali Mridha and others.
Sources
Chowdhury, S. R. Kumar; P. K., Singh; Ismail, M. Ali (2012). Blood Dynasties: Zemindaris of Bengal - A Chronicle of Bengal's Ruling families (Paperback). Dictus: Politics and Democracy series. ISBN9783847385080.