Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah, or Muhammad Ali Khan Walla Jah (7 July 1717 – 13 October 1795), was the Nawab of Arcot in India and an ally of the British East India Company. Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah was born to Anwaruddin Muhammed Khan, by his second wife, "Fakhr un-nisa Begum Sahiba", a niece of Sayyid Ali Khan Safavi ul-Mosawi of Persia, sometime Naib suba of Trichonopoly, on 7 July 1717 at Delhi. Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah the Nawab of Arcot often referred to himself as the Subedar of the Carnatic in his letters and correspondence with
Ali (name) English-speakers as short for male and female names starting with "Al-", or the Old Norse man's name Áli. It can also be an English nickname, as a shortened form of Alice, Alison, Alistair, Alexander, or Alexandra. Ali is also a Finnish male given name, derived from "Aleksanteri". Ali also as a last name has become very popular on a global scale due to the immigration of Muslims throughout the globe. This is especially so in the Caribbean where indentured laborers were brought to replace African slave labour at the end of slavery in countries such as Guyana and Trinidad and