The Nawab of Awadh or Nawab of Oudh /ˈaʊd/ was the title of the rulers of Kingdom of Awadh (anglicised as Oudh) in northern India during the 18th and 19th...
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India under the rule of its eleven rulers, called Nawabs. From 1720 to 1856, the nawabs presided over Awadh, with Ayodhya and Faizabad serving as the region's...
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Junagadh Nawab of Malerkotla Nawab of Muhammadgarh Nawab Sahib of Palanpur (Diwan until 1910) Nawab of Awadh Nawab of Pathari Nawab of Radhanpur Nawab of Rampur...
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armies of Balwant Singh, Maharaja of the Banaras State; Mir Qasim, Nawab of Bengal; Shuja-ud-Daula, Nawab of Awadh; and Shah Alam II, Emperor of the Mughal...
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Baksh, a courtier of the Nawab of Awadh. Historically, when Nawab Saadat Ali Khan, Burhan-ul-Mulk was given the charge of the Subah of Awadh around 1722 by...
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Shah Alam II (category Emperors of the Mughal Empire)
an annual revenue of 2.4 million dam. Shah Alam II then retreated to Allahabad and was protected by the Shuja-ud-Daula, Nawab of Awadh from 1761 until 1764...
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Begum Hazrat Mahal (redirect from Begum of Awadh)
1879), also known as the Begum of Awadh, was the second wife of Nawab of Awadh Wajid Ali Shah, and the regent of Awadh in 1857–1858. She is known for...
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Muslim period in the Indian subcontinent (redirect from Muslim rule of India)
India. Nawab of Awadh ruled major parts of present-day Uttar Pradesh. The Nawabs of Awadh, along with many other Nawabs, were regarded as members of the...
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Ghazipur (redirect from History of Ghazipur)
Khan in turn leased this territory to Saadat Ali Khan I, the first Nawab of Awadh.: 166–7 At first, Saadaat Ali Khan sub-leased these territories (Ghazipur...
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Rohilkhand (redirect from Historical regions of Rohilkhand)
intervention of the Nawab. In 1773, the Marathas once again crossed the Ganges at Ramghat in Badaun, and advanced towards Rohilkhand. The Nawab of Awadh with...
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Shah Alam and gave it to Awadh, alleging that he had placed himself in the power of the Marathas. In 1801 the Nawab of Awadh ceded the city to the British...
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Shuja-ud-Daula (redirect from Nawab Shuja-Ud-Daula)
the murder of his father the Mughal Emperor Alamgir II, the young Prince Ali Gauhar was well received by Shuja-ud-Daula. The Nawab of Awadh and the newly...
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Gadia, Barabanki (section Nawab of Awadh era)
Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Gadia was one of the many talukas in the great Mughal and British Raj-era princely state of Oudh (Awadh). Salar Ahmad's...
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Asaf-ud-Daula, Nawab of Awadh, the residence is now administered by the Indian Army. The kothi at Bibyapur was built by Asaf-ud-Daula, Nawab of Awadh, in the...
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Lucknow (redirect from List of companies in Lucknow)
controlled the region. The Nawabs of Lucknow, in reality, the Nawabs of Awadh, acquired the name after the reign of the third Nawab when Lucknow became their...
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First Rohilla War (category History of Uttar Pradesh)
of 1773–1774 was a punitive campaign by Shuja-ud-Daula, Nawab of Awadh on the behalf of Mughal Emperor, against the Rohillas, Indian descendants of Afghan...
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Asaf-ud-Daula (redirect from Nawab Asaf-Ud-Daula)
Chancey, Karen (2007). "Rethinking the Reign of Asaf-ud-Daula, Nawab of Awadh, 1775-1797". Journal of Asian History. 1 (41): 1–56. JSTOR 41925390. Basu...
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The Chess Players (film) (category Adaptations of works by Premchand)
short story of the same name. Amjad Khan plays the role of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, Nawab of Awadh, and Richard Attenborough enacts the role of General James...
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Wajid Ali Shah (redirect from Nawab Wajid Ali Shaw)
under its rule in a treaty signed with the Nawabs in 1801 and stymied the Awadh economy by imposing the costs of maintaining the Bengal Army on the kingdom's...
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certain amount of revenue to the company. Awadh was returned to Shuja-ud-Daula, but Allahabad and Kora were taken from him. The Nawab of Awadh Shuja ud Daulah...
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Faizullah Khan (redirect from Nawab Faizullah Khan)
East India Company or the Nawab of Awadh. Faizullah was to consider the enemies of Awadh as his own and the friends of Awadh as his own. He was further...
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Birjis Qadr (category Nawabs of Awadh)
Birjis Qadr (20 August 1845 – 14 August 1893) was the son of Wajid Ali Shah, the last Nawab of Awadh. He was a put on the throne after his father had been...
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the 17th century, in the Awadh state under the Mughals in Northern India, one of the members related to the Nawabs of Awadh held a competition for the...
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Safdar Jang (category Nawabs of Awadh)
the second Nawab of Kingdom of Awadh succeeding Saadat Ali Khan I (his maternal uncle and father-in-law) in 1739. All future Nawabs of Awadh were patriarchal...
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the representative of the Nawab of Awadh in an attempt to carve out a principality at Benares, he had defeated the forces of Nawab during a fierce direct...
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Bara Imambara (category Imambaras of Lucknow)
built by Asaf-ud-Daula, Nawab of Awadh, in 1784. Bara means big. An Imambara is a shrine built by Shia Muslims for the purpose of Azadari. This imambara...
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Faizabad (category Awadh)
capital of the Nawabs of Awadh and has monuments built by those Nawabs, like the Tomb of Bahu Begum, Gulab Bari. It was also the headquarters of Faizabad...
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Shahjahanpur district (category Districts of Uttar Pradesh)
during the reign of Aurangzeb. As a result of the First Rohilla War, Rohilkhand was ceded to the Nawabs of Awadh on 7 October 1774. Under Awadh rule, the future...
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Oudh State (redirect from Kingdom of Awadh)
The Oudh State (/ˈaʊd/, also Kingdom of Awadh, Kingdom of Oudh, Awadh Subah, Oudh Subah or Awadh State) was a Mughal subah, then an independent kingdom...
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cession of Rohilkand by the Nawab of Awadh. Ahmad Ali died on 5 July 1840, aged 52. As his only son had died young, he was succeeded as Nawab by his cousin...
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