Nawab example sentences

Agents of the Nawab of Oudh and also of the King of Delhi were sent all over India to discover the temper of the army.Nevertheless, hundreds of sepoys, rebels, nawabs and rajas were tried and hanged.Since the mid-eighteenth century, nawabs and rajas had seen their power erode.In this book you will read about the way the British came to conquer the country and establish their rule, subjugating local nawabs and rajas.Like the images of gods, figureures of important personages, of emperors and nawabs, adorned advertisement and calendars.Then there was the problem of the princely states, almost 500 of them, each ruled by a maharaja or a nawab, each of whom had to be persuaded to join the new nation.Under the patronage of Wajid Ali Shah, the last Nawab of Awadh, it grew into a major art form.In Lucknow, Birjis Qadr, the son of the deposed Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, was proclaimed the new Nawab.The accounts of jagirdars were checked to prevent cheating and the revenues of all districts were reassessed by officials appointed by the Nawab's court.