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| Asif Jah Mirza Wazir Ali Khan | |||||
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| Nawab of Oudh Marhoom-wa-Muqfoor[nt 1] | |||||
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| 4thNawab of Awadh | |||||
| Reign | 21 September 1797 – 21 January 1798 | ||||
| Coronation | 21 September 1797,Lucknow | ||||
| Predecessor | Asaf-ud-Daula | ||||
| Successor | Saadat Ali Khan II | ||||
| Born | (1780-04-19)19 April 1780 Lucknow,Kingdom of Awadh | ||||
| Died | 15 May 1817(1817-05-15) (aged 37) Fort William,British India | ||||
| Burial | Kasia Bagan, Kolkata, India | ||||
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| House | Nishapuri | ||||
| Dynasty | Awadh | ||||
| Religion | Shia Islam | ||||
Wazir Ali Khan (19 April 1780 – 15 May 1817) was the fourthNawab ofKingdom of Awadh from 21 September 1797 to 21 January 1798 and the adopted son ofAsaf-Ud-Daulah.
Asaf-ud-Daulah, who had no son,[1] adopted Ali, the son of his sister. At 13 years of age, Ali was married at the cost of £300,000 inLucknow.
After the death of his surrogate father in September 1797, he ascended to the throne (musnud), with the support of the British. Within four months they accused him of being disloyal. SirJohn Shore (1751–1834) then moved in with 12 battalions and replaced him with his uncleSaadat Ali Khan II.[1]
Ali was granted a pension of 300,000 Rupees and moved toBenares. The government inCalcutta decided that he should be removed further from his former realm.[1]George Frederick Cherry, a British resident, relayed this order to him on 14 January 1799 during a breakfast invitation at which Ali had appeared with an armed guard. During the ensuing argument, Ali struck Cherry a blow with his saber, whereupon the guards killed the resident and two more Europeans. They then set out to attack the house ofSamuel Davis, the Magistrate of Benares, who defended himself on the staircase of his house with apike until rescued by British troops.[2] The affair became known as theMassacre of Benares.
Subsequently, Ali assembled a rebellious army of several thousand men. A quickly assembled force commanded by General Erskine moved into Benares and "restored order" by 21 January. Ali fled toAzamgarh[1] then to Butwal,Rajputana where he was granted asylum by the Raja ofJaipur.[1] On the request ofRichard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, the Raja turned Ali over to the British on the condition that he neither be hanged nor be put in fetters. Ali surrendered to the British authorities in December 1799 and was placed in rigorous confinement at Fort William, Calcutta.
The colonial government complied with this: Ali spent the rest of life – 17 years – in an iron cage inFort William in theBengal Presidency.[3] He was buried in the Muslim graveyard ofKasi Baghan.
| Preceded by | Nawab Wazir al-Mamalik of Oudh 21 September 1797 – 21 January 1798 | Succeeded by |
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