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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 · 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 1857 but who never showed any inclination of fighting the British; an aesthete who wrote much about love and passion, but treated his (numerous) wives and ...
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.
Dec 2, 2019 · The mouth-watering delicacies of the colourful 19th century Nawab of Awadh Wajid Ali Shah, whose kheer (milk pudding) was cooled in the moonbeams at night, no doubt made Lucknow the most romantic...
Jun 3, 2017 · In the nine years of his reign, soon after he built his own palace at Qaiserbagh, Wajid Ali Shah made Lucknow a cultural centre. He staged the magnificent rahas (musicals) in a state-of art ...
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.
Jul 15, 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.
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.
5 days ago · This article deals with an 1849 semi-autobiographical manuscript, ‘Ishqnama, from Avadh (present-day Uttar Pradesh), to explore the courtly politics of the last nawab (ruler) of Avadh, Wajid ‘Ali Shah.
