Oudh State

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This article is about the state during the British Raj. For the natural and historical region in Uttar Pradesh, see Awadh.

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"Oudh" redirects here. For the Oudh tree, see agarwood. For the Arabic musical instrument, see Oud.
Oudh State
अवध रियासत / اودھ ریاست
Princely State of British India
←
1732–1858 →
Flag Coat of arms
Flag Coat of arms
Location of Oudh
Oudh in "Northern India 1857" map
History
 •  Established 1732
 •  Indian rebellion 1858
Area
 •  1901 62,072 km2 (23,966 sq mi)
Population
 •  1901 12,833,077 
Density 206.7 /km2  (535.5 /sq mi)
Today part of Uttar Pradesh, India
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Nawab Saadat Ali Khan II.
Nawab Nasiruddin Haider
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Begum Hazrat Mahal
Portrait of a Bibi, Lucknow 1785

The Oudh State or Kingdom of Oudh (Awadh State) was a princely state in the Awadh region during the British Raj until 1856. Oudh (IPA: /ˈaʊd/),[1] the now obsolete but once official English-language name of the state, also written in British historical texts as 'Oude', derived from the name of Ayodhya.

The capital of Oudh State was in Faizabad, but the British Agents, officially known as 'residents', had their seat in Lucknow. The Nawab of Oudh, one of the richest princes, paid for and erected a splendid Residency in Lucknow as a part of a wider programme of civic improvements.[2]

Oudh joined other Indian states in an upheaval against British rule in 1858 during one of the last series of actions in the Indian rebellion of 1857. In the course of this uprising a few detachments of the British Indian Army from the Bombay Presidency overcame the disunited collection of Indian states in a single rapid campaign. Even so, determined rebels continued to wage sporadic guerrilla clashes until the spring of 1859. This ill-fated rebellion is also historically known as the 'Oudh campaign'.[3]

After the British annexation of Oudh, the North Western Provinces became the North Western Provinces and Oudh.[4]

History

In 1732, under Mughal sovereignty, a senior official of the Mughal Empire established a hereditary polity in Oudh. As the power of the Mughals waned, with the rise of the Maratha Empire, the rulers of Oudh gradually affirmed their own sovereignty. Since the state was located in a prosperous region, the British East India Company soon took notice of the affluence in which the Nawabs of Oudh lived. The result would be direct British interference in the internal state matters of Oudh, and the kingdom became a British protectorate in May 1816. Three years later, in 1819, the ruler of Oudh took the style of Padshah (king), signaling formal independence under the advice of the Marquis of Hastings.

On 7 February 1856 by order of Lord Dalhousie, Governor General of the East India Company, the king of Oudh was deposed, and its kingdom was annexed to British India under the terms of the Doctrine of lapse on the grounds of internal misrule. After Oudh's territory was merged with the North Western Provinces, it formed the larger province of North Western Provinces and Oudh. In 1902, the latter province was renamed the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, and in 1904 the region within the new United Provinces, corresponding to the former North Western Provinces and Oudh, was renamed the Agra Province.[5]

Between 5 July 1857 and 3 March 1858 there was a brief upheaval by the son of the deposed king joining the Indian Rebellion of 1857. At the time of the rebellion, the British temporarily lost control of the territory; they reestablished their rule over the next eighteen months, during which time there were massacres such as those that had occurred in the course of the Siege of Cawnpore (Kanpur).[6][7]

Feudatory states

The following were feudatory estates —taluqdaris[8] or parganas— of Oudh:

Rulers

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Main article: Nawabs of Oudh

The first ruler of Oudh State belonged to the Shia Muslim Sayyid Family and descended of Musa al-Kadhim originated from Nishapur. But the dynasty also belonged from the paternal line to the Kara Koyunlu through Qara Yusuf. They were renowned for their secularism and broad outlook.[13]

All rulers used the title of 'Nawab'.[14]

Subadar Nawabs

  • 1732 – 19 Mar 1739 Borhan al-Molk Mir Mohammad Amin (b. c.1680 – d. 1739) Musawi Sa`adat `Ali Khan I
  • 19 Mar 1739 – 28 Apr 1748 Abu´l Mansur Mohammad Moqim Khan (1st time) (b. c.1708 – d. 1754)

Nawab Wazir al-Mamalik

  • 28 Apr 1748 – 13 May 1753 Abu´l Mansur Mohammad Moqim Khan (s.a.) (acting to 29 Jun 1748)

Subadar Nawab

  • 5 Nov 1753 – 5 Oct 1754 Abu´l Mansur Mohammad Moqim Khan (s.a.) (2nd time)
  • 5 Oct 1754 – 15 Feb 1762 Jalal ad-Din Shoja` ad-Dowla (b. 1732 – d. 1775) Haydar

Nawab Wazir al-Mamalik

Kings (Padshah-e Awadh, Shah-e Zaman)

Residents

  • Nathaniel Middleton 1773 – 1774
  • John Bristow 1774 – 1776
  • Nathaniel Middleton 1776–1779 (second time)
  • Purling 1779 – 1780
  • John Bristow 1780 – 1781 (second time)
  • Nathaniel Middleton 1781 – 1782 (third time)
  • John Bristow 1782–1783 (third time)
  • Edward Otto Ives 1784 – 1793
  • George Frederick Cherry 1793 – 1796
  • James Lumsden 1796 – 1799
  • W. Scott 1799 – 1804
  • John Ulrich Collins 1804 – 1807
  • John Baillie 1807 – 1815
  • Richard Charles Strachey 1815 – 1817
  • J.R. Monckton 1818 – 1820
  • Felix Vincent Raper 1820 – 1823
  • Mordaunt Ricketts 1823 – 1827
  • Thomas Herbert Maddock 1829 – 1831
  • John Low 1831 – 1842
  • James Caulfield (interí) 1839 – 1841
  • William Nott 1841–1843
  • George Pollock 1843 – 1844
  • Archibald Richmond 1844 – 1849?
  • Sir William Henry Sleeman 1849 – 1854
  • Sir James Outram 1854 – 1856

See also

References

  1. ↑ Oudh – definition of Oudh in English from the Oxford dictionary
  2. ↑ Davies, Philip, Splendours of the Raj: British Architecture in India, 1660–1947. New York: Penguin Books, 1987
  3. ↑ Michael Edwardes, Battles of the Indian Mutiny, Pan, 1963, ISBN 0-330-02524-4
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  5. ↑ Imperial Gazetteer of India vol. V 1908, p. 72
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ William Barton, The princes of India. Delhi 1983
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ Balrampur (Taluqdari)
  10. ↑ Bhadri (Taluq)
  11. ↑ Itaunja – Raipur Ekdaria (Taluq)
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  13. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  14. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

External links

  • Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons
  • Heraldry of Oudh State

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