Anger among some social groups, however, was seething under the governor-generalship of James Dalhousie ( 1847 – 1856 ), who annexed the Punjab ( 1849 ) after victory in the Second Sikh War, annexed seven princely states on the basis of lapse, annexed the key state of Oudh on the basis of misgovernment, and upset cultural sensibilities by banning Hindu practices such as Sati.

* February 7 – The nawab of Oudh ( Wajid Ali Shah ) is exiled to Metiabruz and the state is annexed by the British East India Company.

Thus, in Oudh, only sons of the sovereign shah bahadur ( see above ) were by birth-right styled " Shahzada title Mirza name Bahadur ", though this style could also be extended to individual grandsons and even further relatives.

" After Babar had gained a footing in Hindustan by his victory at Panipat in 1526 and had advanced to Agra, the defeated Afghan house of Lodhi still occupied the Central Doab, Oudh, and the eastern districts of the present United Provinces.

* Princely states in British India – look each up by name, in that section, BUT a taluq in Oudh in that section

After the revolt failed the British attempted to divide the most rebellious regions by reorganising the administrative boundaries of the region, splitting the Delhi region from ‘ NWFP of Agra ’ and merging it with Punjab, while the Ajmer-Marwar region was merged with Rajputana and Oudh was incorporated into the state.

Khairabad ( Mehmoodabad Estate ) was part of Oudh province which had been ruled by shi ' i Muslims having Persian linkages.

However Maratha Empire was assisted by Nawab of Oudh who was himself a Muslim but the grudge of Nawab of Oudh and Afghan Pathans arises from the fact that Pathans were Sunni whereas Nawab was a Shia.

The Nawab of Oudh, Wajid Ali Shah, not only enjoyed giving patronage to dancers, but danced himself, taught by Durga Prasad.

Other former rulers bearing the title, such as the nawabs of Bengal and Oudh, had been dispossessed by the British or others by the time the Mughal dynasty finally ended in 1857.

Before the incorporation of the Subcontinent into the British Empire, nawabs ruled the kingdoms of Awadh ( or Oudh, encouraged by the British to shed the Mughal suzereignty and assume the imperial style of Badshah ), Bengal, Arcot and Bhopal.

The annexation of Oudh by the British in 1856 sounded the first death-knell for this medieval institution.

It has been suggested that after the annexation of Oudh by the East India Company in 1856, many sepoys were disquieted both from losing their perquisites, as landed gentry, in the Oudh courts and from the anticipation of any increased land-revenue payments that the annexation might bring about.

Historian John Harris has asserted that the Sikhs wanted to avenge the annexation of the Sikh Empire eight years earlier by the Company with the help of Purabias (' Easterners '); Biharis and those from the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh who had formed part of the East India Company's armies in the First and Second Anglo-Sikh Wars.

The United Provinces of Agra and Oudh was a province of India under the British Raj, which existed from 1902 to 1947 ; the official name was shortened by the Government of India Act 1935 to United Provinces, by which the province had been commonly known, and by which name it was also a province of independent India until 1950.

By the middle of the century, present-day Uttar Pradesh was divided between several states: Awadh ( Oudh ) in the centre and east, ruled by a Nawab who owed allegiance to the Mughal Emperor but was de facto independent ; Rohilkhand in the north, ruled by Afghans ; the Marathas, who controlled the Bundelkhand region in the south, and the Mughal Empire, which controlled the entire Doab ( the tongue of land between the Ganges and Yamuna rivers ) as well as the Delhi region.

The agency was bordered by the Central Provinces and Berar to the south ; the Chota Nagpur princely states to the east, which were transferred from Bengal to the Central Provinces and Berar in 1905 ; the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh to the north ; Rajputana to the northwest ; and Bombay Presidency to the west and southwest.

In 1877, Oudh Punch, the first humour magazine in Urdu was started by Sajjid Hussain.

After losing his northern hill territories to King Prithvi, Chauhan Raja Nawal Singh was forced to move to his southern territories ( currently Tulsipur / Balarampur in India ) and ruled as one of the largest Taluqdar of Oudh.

Indira Nehru was born on 19 November 1917 at the Anand Bhavan in the historically important town of Allahabad, in what was then the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, into the politically influential Nehru family.

Mughisuddin Yuzbak also conquered Bihar and Oudh from Delhi but was killed during an unsuccessful expedition in Assam.

During the British Raj the city was known as Ajodhya or Ajodhia and was part of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh ; it was also the seat of a small ' talukdari ' state.

The new state was called the ' North Western Provinces of Agra and Oudh ', which in 1902 was renamed as the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh.

In 1854 Berar was annexed, and the state of Oudh two years later.

After Aurangzeb's death he was appointed Governor of Oudh, but after Bahadur Shahs death he opted for a private life in Delhi.

From 1773 to 1801, it was part of the Oudh kingdom and then came into the hands of the British.

The third son, named after Lord Auckland, was lieutenant-governor of the North-West Provinces and Oudh.

The first entirely Indian joint stock bank was the Oudh Commercial Bank, established in 1881 in Faizabad.

The Shah Najaf, a walled mosque, is the mausoleum of Ghazi-ud-Din Haider, the first King of Oudh in 1814.

A British governor rejected a civil service candidates ’ list on the grounds that there was too many Muslims ; Persian was removed from the curriculum of Allahbad University, and in 1900 the British accepted the use of Devanagri script for official purposes in the Northwest Frontier provinces and Oudh ……….. the formation of the Indian National Congress in 1885 … Congress though open to Muslims was formed by Brahmin Lawyers .. however no event was more important for the change in Muslim elite opinion then the partition of Bengal … the first Muslim response was continue the policies … the younger generation clamored for more direct political action …. Urdu defense League in 1900 .. 1906 a petition for separate electorate .. and Lord Minto acknowledged the Muslim right to representation … in 1909 … the most important expression of the new Muslim militancy were the founding of the Muslim League in 1906 … in 1908 Abu ’ l Kalam Azad began to publish Al-Hilal … to support the caliphate .. Maulana Mohamamd Ali a graduate of Aligarh preached a similar creed in Comrade

In 1527, Babar, on his return from Central India, defeated his opponents in Southern Oudh near Kanauj, and passed on through the Province as far as Ayodhya where he built a mosque in 1528, on the site renowned as the birthplace of Rama.

In Uttar Pradesh the Oudh Belwar also claim descent from the Sanadhya Brahmin caste.

Ahmad Shah Durrani, then called Rohillas and Nawab of Oudh to assist him in driving out ' infidel ' Marathas from Delhi.

The world's second airmail flight came the next day, when French pilot Henri Pequet carried 6, 500 letters a distance of from Allahabad, to Naini, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, India, then part of the British Empire.

There are three major schools or gharanas of Kathak from which performers today generally draw their lineage: the gharanas of Jaipur, Lucknow and Benares ( born in the courts of the Kachwaha Rajput kings, the Nawab of Oudh, and Varanasi respectively ); there is also a less prominent ( and later ) Raigarh gharana which amalgamated technique from all three preceding gharanas but became famous for its own distinctive compositions.

While the Gorkhali had been expanding their empire – into Sikkim in the east, Kumaon and Garhwal in the west and into the British sphere of influence in Awadh, or Oudh as the British called it, in the south – the British East India Company had consolidated its position in India from its main bases of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay.

In 1801 he obtained from the Nawab of Oudh the cession of Rohilkhand, the lower Doab, and the Gorakhpur Division, thus enclosing Awadh on all sides except the north.

He was then appointed Lieutenant-Governor of North West Provinces, and Chief Commissioner of Oudh ( North-West Provinces ) from 1882 to 1887 ( he introduced a degree of local self-government to that area ).

Birds were also reported from the Oudh region some from very close to Lucknow.

It was an important mart, as was Kotdwara, the terminus of a branch of the Oudh and Rohilkhand railway from Najibabad.

In the book " Perspectives On The Caribbean: A Reader In Culture, History, and Representation ," by Philip W. Scher, Scher cites figures by respected Professor of Anthropology, Steven Vertovec ; Of 94, 135 Indian immigrants to Trinidad, between 1874-1917, 50. 7 percent were from the NW / United Provinces ( an area, which today, is largely encompassed by Uttar Pradesh ), 24. 4 percent hailed from the historic region of Oudh ( Awadh ), 13. 5 percent were from Bihar, and lesser numbers from various other states and regions of the Indian Subcontinent, such as Punjab, West Bengal, and South India Madras ( Chennai ) ( as cited in Vertovec, 1992 ).