Mir Sultan Khan was born in the year 1905 in a part of India, now part of Pakistan. He was more often than not considered to have been the most substantial chess master of his time from Asia. Since As-Suli to have been recognized in Europe, Mir Sultan Khan was also regarged as the first Asian chess master. In the year 1929, he was brought to England by his master, a maharaja. He was kept there for four years, and then after was taken back to India in 1933 by his master. After that he was never to be seen by the world of chess again. During his stay at England, he won the British Chess Championship for the year of 1929, 1932 and 1933 and played for England in the Chess Olympiads of 1930,1931 and 1933. He rose to the top of the chess world, in less than four years. He has played with the world`s great masters, such as Alexander Alekhine, José Raúl Capablanca, Max Euwe, Aaron Nimzowitsch, and Akiba Rubinstein. He was among one of the few players who had a plus record against Capablanca. He also had an addition record against Frank Marshall and Savielly Tartakower. The most notable victory made by him was the game that he won against former world champion Capablanca at the Hastings tournament of the year 1930.

In any chess tournament where he has participated, Sultan Khan never finished lower than fourth. In spite of the fact that he always lost to William Winter who usually finished last. At that time Sultan Khan was one of the strongest chess players in the world in spite of defeated by William Winter. Sultan Khan was about 2550 in strength according to the modernistic rating system, and was easily a grandmaster. For this it can be concluded that Sultan Khan was the first ever Asian grandmaster of chess. Sultan Khan was regarded as a beginner at chess and that only shortly before being brought from India, he learned the rules. But he was a master at the Indian interpretation of chess. The Indian version of chess is almost in a precise manner the same as Western chess.

This great player died in the year 1966 .