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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 · Nawab Wajid Ali Shah 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.
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 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.
Dec 1, 2020 · After surveying the importance and meaning of the manuscript during Wajid ‘Ali Shah's reign, I examine the dissemination of the handwritten manuscript via lithograph copies, tracing the specific textual and visual elements that have been obfuscated and manipulated in the transition from a handwritten design to print technology.
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...
