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Mirza 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. [1] [2] Wajid Ali Shah's first wife was Alam Ara who was better known as Khas Mahal (transl. special wife) because of her exquisite beauty. [3]
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 15, 2023 · Mirza Wajid Ali Shah (30 July 1822 – 1 September 1887) was the eleventh and final King of Awadh, reigning from 13 February 1847 to 11 February 1856. He is remembered as a poet, playwright, dancer, and patron of the arts who made significant contributions during his rule.
Sep 16, 2017 · Once Wajid Ali Shah commanded 60,000 men, but now he was reduced to a life of domestic frustration and chauvinistic rage. There was a time when he saw himself as a modern-day Krishna, a...
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.
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.
Aug 1, 2022 · After Awadh was annexed shamelessly in 1856 by the English East India Company on a false charge of maladministration, its last king Wajid Ali Shah decided to come to Kolkata with his mother Malikah Kishwar and son and heir-apparent Prince Hamid Ali, to place his case before the governor-general as he had heard a lot about the British sense of ...
Wajid Ali Shah was the fifth King of Oudh and son of Amjad Ali Shah. Wajid was the tenth and last nawab of the state of Oudh in present day Uttar Pradesh in India. He ascended the throne of Oudh in 1847 and ruled for nine years.
Wajid Ali Shah Akhtar Ghazals available in Hindi, Urdu and Roman scripts. Access to ghazal videos, audios & Ebooks of Wajid Ali Shah Akhtar.
Wajid Ali Shah was written out of the history books after his kingdom was annexed in 1856. Some even thought he had been killed during the mutiny the following year. But he lived on...
