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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 ...
Jul 31, 2023 · Last but not lost: Wajid Ali Shah was exiled, but he never left Awadh hearts. Lucknow: Some 167 years ago, a 34-year-old king from Awadh had docked his General Mcleod steamer at a Hooghly bank ...
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.
May 11, 2017 · Back in May 1856, Wajid Ali Shah, the 10th Nawab of Oudh, came to what was then Calcutta with much disquiet in his heart. The British had confiscated his lands, his treasury , his comfort -indeed, they had even banished him from his beloved Luc know. So what was he left with?
May 6, 2024 · Wajid Ali Shah was arrested on the charge of conspiracy against the government and instigating insurgency among his armed followers.
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 18, 2023 · Mirza Wajid Ali Shah, the eleventh and last King of Awadh with female members of his family. Also called the Nawab of Awadh or the Nawab of Oudh, Shah ruled Awadh (or Oudh), north...
Dec 1, 2020 · 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.
