Old-age portrait of Nawab Sultan Jahan Begum

The Begum of Bhopal stepped down from her position as the ruler in favour of her only surviving child, Hamidullah Khan in 1926. She ruled for 25 glorious years of a just and prosperous rule, marked by great strides in education, health, public works and taxation. It was an end of an era as she breathed her last on 12 May 1930.