Rukhsana Sultana
Rukshana Sultana is an Indian "social butterfly". She is well known as one of Sanjay Gandhi's close associates during the Emergency in India.
Family
Sultana's mother, Zarina, was the daughter of Mian Ehsan-ul-haque, the Chief Justice of the princely state of Bikaner in northern Rajasthan. He came from a landowning family, originally from Jalandhar, Punjab. Sultana's maternal aunt (her mother's younger sister) was actress Begum Para, mother of actor Ayub Khan.
Sultana, a Muslim by birth, married Shivinder Singh, a Sikh army officer. He is the nephew of the novelist Khushwant Singh and the grandson of construction magnate Sir Sobha Singh of Lahore. Their only child is the actress Amrita Singh, ex-wife of the actor Saif Ali Khan. Khan is the son of cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, the ninth Nawab of Pataudi and the actress Sharmila Tagore.
External links
- Bhopal: The Mirazi Khel Dynasty - Genealogy
- Iloveindia.com: Bollywood - Amrita Singh
- Khalid Hasan Online: Begum Para: The Last Glamour Girl - Khalid Hasan
- Telegraph: Calcutta, India - Time to Disco
- Thedu.in: Biography - Begum Para
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