{"id":87211,"date":"2026-02-11T13:35:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=87211"},"modified":"2026-02-11T15:47:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:17:51","slug":"wajid-ali-shah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wajid-ali-shah\/","title":{"rendered":"Wajid Ali Shah"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Wajid Ali Shah Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nawab Wajid Ali Shah was not exiled to Calcutta but he came to the city because he wanted to take a ship to London to submit a petition but that departure was restricted and he stayed on, according to a biography by his great-grandson, recently translated from Urdu to English.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Wajid Ali Shah<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Nawab Wajid Ali Shah (1822-1887) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">belonged to the princely <\/span><b>kingdom of Awadh (Oudh)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Uttar Pradesh.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He <\/span><b>succeeded <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">his <\/span><b>father, Nawab Amjad Ali Shah<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>to become<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the<\/span><b> province\u2019s tenth and last nawab<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. He <\/span><b>ascended the throne<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in <\/span><b>1847<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was regarded as being a <\/span><b>kind, generous, and compassionate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ruler, as well as a <\/span><b>good administrator<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who took keen interest in the affairs of the state.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He went on to <\/span><b>rule for nine years till<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> his <\/span><b>kingdom was annexed by the British in 1856, citing \u201cmisgovernance.\u201d.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His deposition and the annexation of Awadh became <\/span><b>one of the major causes of the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/revolt-of-1857\/\" target=\"_blank\">Revolt of 1857<\/a>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He <\/span><b>lived out the rest of his life<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at Garden Reach in Metiabruz, then a suburb of <\/span><b>Kolkata<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His time spent as Nawab is perfused with generosity and <\/span><b>admiration for artistic valor.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was a man of many talents, a <\/span><b>poet, playwright, dancer, and profound patron of arts.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His <\/span><b>works <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">included <\/span><b>numerous poems, prose, ragas,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> playwrights, and <\/span><b>ghazals<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> under his <\/span><b>pen name of \u2018Qaisar\u2019.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Ishqnamah (Book of Love<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) is a youthful <\/span><b>autobiography written in Urdu<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> verse by <\/span><b>Wajid Ali Shah.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is also credited for <\/span><b>contributing to the revival of<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the Indian dance form <\/span><b>Kathak<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is renowned for his<\/span><b> secular approach<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and his <\/span><b>interest in Hindu culture.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was also greatly <\/span><b>interested in architecture<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. He <\/span><b>started building<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>Qaiser bagh palace complex<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as soon as he came to the throne. This vast complex was built between 1848 and 1850.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Besides the Nawab\u2019s immense contributions to India, <\/span><b>one of his wives, Begum Hazrat Mahal, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was known to be a <\/span><b>great Indian freedom fighter<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who played a <\/span><b>major role during India\u2019s First War of Independence (1857-58) against the British<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/west-bengal\/wajid-ali-shah-was-not-exiled-to-calcutta-he-came-on-his-own-says-book-by-descendant\/article70615751.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nawab Wajid Ali Shah (1822-1887) belonged to the princely kingdom of Awadh (Oudh) in Uttar Pradesh. 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