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Begum Hazrat Mahal

c. 1820–1879 · 19th century

Begum Hazrat Mahal was a wife of Wajid Ali Shah, the last Nawab of Awadh, and a leader of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. After the British exiled her husband, she proclaimed her young son Birjis Qadr ruler and directed resistance at Lucknow. When the city fell in 1858 she refused British offers of a pension and withdrew to Nepal, where she died in Kathmandu in 1879.

Begum Hazrat Mahal
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Awadh State

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