2021-05-12 Wed

Muhammad Ali Shah was the third Nawab of Princely State Awadh. He sat on the throne of Awadh in the year 1837 CE and ruled it until 1842 CE. Muhammad Ali Sat was the son of Saadat Ali Khan II and the brother of Ghazi-ud-Din Haidar Shah.

Awadh was a Princely State during the British rule in India. It was located in the Northern part of India and was ruled by Nawabs/Wazir on behalf of the Mughal Emperors. Awadh was established as one of the twelve original subahs under 16th-century Mughal emperor Akbar and became a hereditary tributary polity around 1722 CE. They made Faizabad as their initial capital and Saadat Ali Khan as their first Subadar Nawab.

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