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Miza Wajid Ali shah (Urdu: واجد علی شاه) (30 July 1822 – 1 September 1887) was the eleventh and last king of Awadh, holding the position for 9 years, from 13 February 1847 to 11 February 1856. Wajid Ali Shah's first wife was Alam Ara who was better known as Khas Mahal (transl. special wife) because of her exquisite beauty.
Jan 10, 2019 · An Awadhi Nero who, toppled by the British at the age of 34, spent 31 years in exile far away from his beloved Lucknow, in Metiaburz, an estate in Kolkata that he fashioned into a simulacrum of his lost realm? Altogether, a decadent relic of the late Mughal period.
Jul 30, 2023 · After he was deposed as the ‘king’ of Lucknow — a title given by the British — Wajid Ali Shah and his family planned to sail to England and plead their case directly with Queen Victoria, a fellow sovereign they assumed would be more sympathetic to their cause.
Jun 18, 2024 · Wajid Ali Shah, born Mirza Wajid Ali Shah on July 30, 1822, was the eleventh and final ruler of the historic kingdom of Awadh, located in present-day Uttar Pradesh, India.
Dec 7, 2017 · In 1855, Nawab Wajid Ali Shah saved Hanuman Garhi temple from Muslim attackers in Ayodhya near Babri Masjid.
Wajid Ali Shah was prolific writer, poet and musician raised in Awadh’s capital city of Lucknow, a centre of Indian urban high culture famous for its poets, dancers and musicians. He was not born in direct line for succession and was already 21 when proclaimed heir apparent.
Jul 30, 2023 · Lucknow is celebrating the bicentenary anniversary of the last king of Awadh, Nawab Wajid Ali Shah who ruled his kingdom briefly from 1847 to 1856 before he was removed from the throne at 34, chased out of Lucknow and spent 31 years in exile in Kolkata. History has many iterations of Wajid Ali Shah.
Aug 31, 2023 · About Nawab Wajid Ali Shah. Mirza Wajid Ali Shah, the final ruler of Awadh, held the position from 1847 to 1856. His second wife Begum Hazrat Mahal, played a significant role in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 against the British East India Company, acting as the regent of Awadh.
Jul 23, 2023 · KOLKATA: Awadh’s last nawab, Wajid Ali Shah, who was a connoisseur of art, music and food, had created a “mini Lucknow” in Metiabruz, where he was exiled after his kingdom was annexed by the British in 1856. He encouraged flowering of traditional performing art forms, like kathak, thumris, ghazals.
Wajid Ali Shah was a man of many contradictions — a king who never had much power but who managed to maintain a 'court' to his dying day; a ruler whose deposition contributed to the Revolt of...
