Born in 1821, a year after the seventh Nawab Vezeir Ghaziuddin Haidar's coronation as the First King of Oudh, Prince Wajid Ali could not be then dream of one day ascending the Throne of Oudh and another day descending into the prison at Fort William. Wajid Ali was the second grandson of Prince Muhammed Ali, the younger brother King Ghaziuddin Haidar.
The picturesque title of the book of Prof.A.P.Bhatnagar tends to give the impression that The Oudh Nights-Stories of Nawab Wajirs, Kings and Begums of Oudh' is another absorbing story of perfumed yesteryears of the 'Engaging Scoundrels' of Rosie Liwellyn-Jones. Infact, it is a tale not merely retold of sensuality flights and medieval passions of the incurable romantic Nawabs and Kings of Awadh, but the making of a Culture. There are flashes of classical historiography in this book, though the author's main focus is on the graphical view of the sybaritic splendor of the "Nawabi Period' of Awadh.
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