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

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Rare 1883 Royal Manuscript Signed Document King Awadh Nawab Wajid Ali Shah India:
$374.96

LOT-G99. 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 Parcha Payam to King of Oudh requesting suitable allowance for Burray Mirza. 1883 Agent Governor General with the King of Oudh, Lt Col Pridieux’s Parcha Payam to His Majesty the King Wajid Ali of Oudh requesting him to give suitable allowance to his grandson Prince Qara Mohammad Mirza or Burray Mirza Bahadoor Parcha Payamis communication to and from the King and other members of the Royal Family.

Prince Qara Muhammad Mirza Bahaduror 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?. Hedied at Calcutta on 1stJuly 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 14thNovember 1837, Malika Muqqadara-i-Azma Nawab Alam Ara Begum Padshah Mahal Sahibah, born in 1817 died at Garden Reach on 31stMarch 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.

AGGis Agent of the Governor General of India with the King of Oudh.

H.M. Wajid Ali, King of Oudhwas 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 KhiladibydirectorSatyajit Raybased on Munshi Premchand’s short story of the same name was playedby Amzad KhawnasKing Wajid Ali and by SirRichard Attenboroughas General SirOutram. His Majesty Wajid Ali died at Matiaboorj, Garden Reach, Calcutta on 21stSeptember 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.