Rare 1883 Royal Manuscript Signed Document King Awadh Nawab Wajid Ali Shah India

Description: LOT-G96. For your consideration is an exceedingly rare and important royal manuscript document hand-signed by Nawab Wajid Ali Shah / King of Oudh, c. 1883. Condition is original. Paper is brittle and fragile. Watermarked. Vernacular translation is included. 1883 Queen Khus Mahal agrees to wait hopes Burray Mirza adopt conciliatory tone 1883 As advised by Lt Col Pridieux, Agent Governor General with the King of Oudh, Chief Queen Khus Mahal Sahibah agrees to wait and maintain status quo in anticipation of Burray Mirza Bahadoor or Qara Mohammad Mirza, the eldest grandson of His Majesty King Wajid Ali of Oudh to adopt a conciliatory tone towards the Chief queen at whose palace he lives with 4 wives and 8 children Prince Qara Muhammad Mirza Bahadur or Burray Mirza, eldest surviving son of Prince Hamid Ali Br, born at Lucknow, 1855, educated in Calcutta, married (first) Alam Banu Sahiba, who had three children, married (1) Luft un-nisa Khanum, married (2) Mahabat un-nisa Khanum, married (3) Luzzut Buksh?. He died at Calcutta on 1st July 1887 (buried at Imambara-i-Sibtainabad, Matiaburj, Calcutta), having had issue, four sons and four daughters KHAS MAHAL SAHIBAH: King Wajid Ali Shah married first at Shah Manjil, Lucknow on 14th November 1837, Malika Muqqadara-i-Azma Nawab Alam Ara Begum Padshah Mahal Sahibah, born in 1817 died at Garden Reach on 31st March 1894, buried at Sibtainabad Imambara of Matiabruz, previously Nawab Azam Banu Begum Khas Mahal Sahibah, a poetess under nom-de-plume Alam, daughter of Nawab Syed Ali Khan Bahadoor by his wife Barati Khanum, and is supposed to be the Eurasian daughter Sally of Major General Claude Martin. AGG is Agent of the Governor General of India with the King of Oudh. H.M. Wajid Ali, King of Oudh was deposed in 1856, by the order of Lord Dalhousie and taken by Sir Outram to Fort William custody under Town Major O Cavanagh and later housed at Garden Reach in Calcutta for mal-administering the affairs of kingdom of Oudh by lavishly spending on luxuries. The King was nicknamed Shatranj Ke Khiladi or the Chess Player. 1977 film Shatranj Ke Khiladi by director Satyajit Ray based on Munshi Premchands short story of the same name was played by Amzad Khawn as King Wajid Ali and by Sir Richard Attenborough as General Sir Outram. His Majesty Wajid Ali died at Matiaboorj, Garden Reach, Calcutta on 21st September 1887, buried at Sibtainabad Imambara. Local people in Garden Reach say that he was poisoned by his chief vizier Moonsarimood Dowlah or Langra Moonshi. Langra Moonshee and his family vanished into thin air after the death of His Majesty. But, he did not really vanish. He was always in touch with Lieutenant Colonel W F Prideaux, Agent to the Governor General in Council.

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