Defying all international norms and ignoring treaties of friendships with the Nawabs, when the East India Company unethically ...

In 1722, Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah appointed his minister, Mir Muhammad Khan, the governor of Awadh, who then adopted the title of Saadat Khan, declared himself the independent Nawab of Awadh ...

They helped the nawabs to counter British attempts at control, to negotiate with the Mughals and to protect Awadh from political marauders. After a fashion of course. Mukhoty paints vivid pictures ...

When construction of the Bara Imambara began in Lucknow, it was a year of famine. Reportedly, the Nawab of Awadh hired one batch of workers for construction during the day and another for ...

It's a chilly evening in the northern Indian city of Lucknow, the erstwhile seat of the Nawabs of Awadh. We are in the courtyard of Lebua Lucknow, Saraca Estate, a 1930s estate-turned-boutique ...

This Bollywood actor, who had made his name as a mealy-mouthed, sadistic, and vicious brigand, now played a cultured yet hapless Nawab and on the first shot itself, lost control of himself as he ...

W ajid Ali Shah, the last nawab of Awadh would have turned 200 in 2022. But it’s only this year that the Sibtainabad Imambara ...

The British Residency or Residency Complex, simply called the Residency, was a series of buildings constructed as a home for the British by Nawab Saadat Ali Khan II of Awadh in 1780-1800 AD as a ...