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Anwar ud-Din Khan (1674?–1749)  

David Washbrook

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Asaf Jah VII [Osman Ali Khan] (1886–1967), nizam of Hyderabad  

Barbara N. Ramusack

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Asaf Jah VII [Osman Ali Khan] (1886–1967), nizam of Hyderabad, was born on 6 April 1886 at Hyderabad city, India, as Osman Ali Khan. He was the eldest son of Mir Mahbub Ali Khan (1866–1911), then the nizam (ruler) of Hyderabad as Asaf Jah VI...

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Asaf ud-Daula (d. 1797), nawab of Oudh  

Richard B. Barnett

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Bengal, nawabs of (act. 1756–1793), rulers in India  

P. J. Marshall

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Bengal, nawabs of (act. 1756–1793), rulers in India, were formally the subahdars, or governors, of a Mughal province. In reality they were rulers of what since the early eighteenth century had been an effectively autonomous Bengal. That autonomy was to be lost to the British during their lifetimes....

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Brooke, Sir Charles Anthoni Johnson (1829–1917), naval officer and second raja of Sarawak  

R. H. W. Reece

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Brooke, Sir Charles Anthoni Johnson (1829–1917), naval officer and second raja of Sarawak, was born at Berrow vicarage, near Burnham, Somerset, on 3 June 1829, the second son of Francis Charles Johnson (1797–1874), from 1825 vicar of White Lackington, and his wife, Emma Frances Brooke (1802–1870)...

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Brooke, Sir (Charles) Vyner de Windt (1874–1963), third and last raja of Sarawak  

R. H. W. Reece

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Brooke, Sir (Charles) Vyner de Windt (1874–1963), third and last raja of Sarawak, was born on 26 September 1874 at Albemarle Street, London, the eldest son of Sir Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke (1829–1917), second raja of Sarawak, and his wife, Margaret Lili Alice de Windt (...

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Jind Kaur (1817–1863), maharani and regent of Lahore  

Bhupinder Singh Bance

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Jind Kaur (1817–1863), maharani and regent of Lahore, was born in 1817 in the village of Chhahar, Sialkot district, Punjab (now in Pakistan), the eldest child of the three daughters and two sons of Manna Singh Aulakh, a Sikh of the Jat...

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Khan, Sir (Muhammad) Hamidullah (1894–1960), nawab of Bhopal  

Barbara N. Ramusack

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Khan, Sir (Muhammad) Hamidullah (1894–1960), nawab of Bhopal, was born on 9 September 1894 in the Sadar Manzir palace, Bhopal, the third son of Nawab Sultan Jahan Begum (1858–1930), the third successive woman to rule the princely state of Bhopal, and ...

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Lakshmi Bai [Lakshmibai], rani of Jhansi (1827/1828–1858), warrior queen in India  

Bharati Ray

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Lakshmi Bai [Lakshmibai], rani of Jhansi (1827/1828–1858), warrior queen in India, was born at Benares, India, probably in late 1827 or early 1828, the only child of Moropant Tambe and his wife, Bhagirathi Bai, a woman versed in Hindu mythology. Her father was an employee of ...

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Mir Jafar Ali Khan (c. 1691–1765)  

P. J. Marshall

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Mir Kasim Ali Khan (d. 1777)  

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Mubarak ud-Daula (1757/8–1793)  

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Muhammad Ali Khan Walahjah (c. 1717–1795)  

Maker: George Willison

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Muhammad Ali Khan Walahjah (c. 1717–1795) by George Willison, c. 1774 The British Library

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Muhammad Ali Khan Walahjah (c. 1717–1795), nawab of Arcot  

David Washbrook

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Muhammad Ali Khan Walahjah (c. 1717–1795), nawab of Arcot, was born the third of five sons of Anwar ud-Din Khan Anwar ud-Din Khan (1674?–1749), whom Asaf Jah, the Mughal subahdar of the Deccan and first nizam of Hyderabad, appointed nawab (deputy) of his subordinate ...

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Munni Begam (1723?–1813), consort of Mir Jafar Ali Khan, nawab of Bengal  

P. J. Marshall

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Munni Begam (1723?–1813), consort of Mir Jafar Ali Khan, nawab of Bengal, was probably born in 1723, reputedly the daughter of 'a poor widow' from the village of Balkonda, near Sikandra in northern India (Torrington, 9.76). The widow gave her to a slave woman who took her to ...

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Oudh, nawab wazirs of (act. 1754–1814)  

Richard B. Barnett

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Oudh, nawab wazirs of (act. 1754–1814), were Nishapuri Saiyids who ruled the major political system of north India (Oudh, or more correctly Awadh) from 1754 to 1814, during the era of its most robust influence. They were the third to the sixth in a dynasty of eleven that lasted from 1720 to 1856....

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Oudh, Nawab wazirs of (act. 1754–1814)  

Maker: Tilly Kettle

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Nawab wazirs of Oudh (act. 1754–1814) by Tilly Kettle, 1772 [Nawab wazirs of Oudh (act. 1754–1814)[left to right]: "Asaf ud-Daula (d. 1797) and Shuja ud-Daula (d. 1775) ] © Photo RMN – G. Poncet

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Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, maharaja jam sahib of Navanagar [known as Ranjitsinhji or Ranji] (1872–1933), ruler in India and cricketer  

Simon Wilde

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Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, maharaja jam sahib of Navanagar [known as Ranjitsinhji or Ranji] (1872–1933), ruler in India and cricketer, was born on 10 September 1872 in Sarodar, a village on the Kathiawar peninsula in north-west India, the first son of Jiwansinhji, a farmer, and his second wife. The family was related to ruling houses in the region—including ...

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Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, maharaja jam sahib of Navanagar [Ranjitsinhji or Ranji] (1872–1933)  

Maker: George W. Beldam

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Saadat Ali (d. 1814), nawab of Oudh  

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