OUDH

(AWADH)
GENEALOGY
1847 - 1856 H.M.
Hazrat Khalid, 'Abul Mansur Nasir ud-din,
Padshah-i-'Adil, Kaiser-i-Zaman, Arangha Sultan-i-'Alam,
Muhammad Wajid 'Ali Shah Bahadur, King of Oudh. b.
at Lucknow, 30th July 1822, second son of H.M
'Abul Zafar, Muslih ud-din, Sultan-i-'Adil Khaqan-i-Zaman
Muhammad Amjad 'Ali Shah, Sipahr Shukoh Bahadur, King of
Oudh, by his first wife, H.M. (Janab-i-Alia)
Malika-i-Kishwar Bahadur, Mukhtar-i-Alia, Fakhr uz-Zamani
Nawab Taj Ara Begum Sahiba, daughter of Nawab Hisam
ud-din Khan Bahadur, of Kalpi, educ. privately.
Granted the title of Nazim ud-Daula 1838,
later promoted to the title of Khurshid Hashmat.
Appointed as Heir Apparent and invested with the titles
of Abul Mansur, Sikander Jah,
Sulaiman Hasham, Sahib-i- Alam, and
Wali Ahad Mirza Bahadur at the Farhat
Bakhsh Palace, Lucknow, 17th May 1842. Served
as Peshkar to his father 1842-1847. Succeeded on
the death of his father, 13th February 1847.
Ascended the musnaid, at the Qasr us-Sultan,
Farhat Bakhsh Palace, Lucknow. Deposed by the British 7th
February 1856 and sent into exile as a political
pensioner to Calcutta. m. (first) at Shah Manzil,
Lucknow, 14th November 1837, Malika
Muqqadara-i-Azma Nawab Alam Ara Begum Padshah Mahal
Sahiba (cre. 1847) (b. 1817; d. at
Matiaburj, Garden Reach, Calcutta, 31st March
1894, bur. there at Imambara-i- Sibtainabad),
previously Nawab Azam Banu Begum Khas Mahal Sahiba 14th
November 1837, a poetess under the nom de plume of
'Alam', daughter of Nawab Sayyid 'Ali Khan Bahadur, by
his wife, Barati Khanum, a supposed daughter of
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