Saadat Ali Khan II
| Saadat Ali Khan | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nawab Wazir of Oudh Wazir-ul Mumalik Yameen-ud Daulah Nazim-ul Mumlikat Khan Bahadur Mubariz Jung[nt 1] Ja'nnat Aramgah[nt 2] | |||||
 Nawab Saadat Ali Khan II | |||||
| Reign | 21 January 1798 – 11 July 1814 | ||||
| Predecessor | Mirza Wazir `Ali Khan | ||||
| Successor | Ghazi ad-Din Rafa`at ad-Dowla Abu´l-Mozaffar Haydar Khan | ||||
| Born | b. bf. 1752 | ||||
| Died | 11 July 1814 Lucknow | ||||
| Burial | |||||
| Consort | Khursheed Zadi | ||||
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| House | Nishapuri | ||||
| Dynasty | Oudh | ||||
| Father | Shuja-ud-daula | ||||
| Religion | Shia Islam | ||||
Saadat Ali Khan (Persian: سعادت علی خان, Hindi: सआदत अली ख़ान, Urdu: سعادت علی خان) (bf. 1752 – c. 11 July 1814) was the sixth[citation needed] Nawab wazir of Oudh from 21 January 1798 to 11 July 1814,[citation needed] and the son of Shuja-ud-Daula.[citation needed] He was of Persian origin.[1][2]
Life
He was the second son of Nawab Shuja-ud-daula. Saadat Ali Khan succeeded his half-nephew, Mirza Wazir `Ali Khan, to the throne of Oudh in 1798. Saadat Ali Khan was crowned on 21 January 1798 at Bibiyapur Palace in Lucknow, by Sir John Shore.[3]
Most of the buildings between the Kaiserbagh and Dilkusha were constructed by him.[citation needed] He had a palace called Dilkusha Kothi designed and built by Sir Gore Ouseley in 1805.[4]
Death
Nawab Saadat Ali Khan died in 1814 and he was buried with his wife Khursheed Zadi at Qaisar Bagh.[3]
Gallery
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Gates of the Palace at Lucknow by W. Daniell, 1801 -
Claude Martin's home that was bought by Saadat Ali Khan for 50K rupees -
Tomb of Nawab Saadat Ali Khan II, at Qaiser Bagh, Lucknow
References
- ^ Sacred space and holy war: the politics, culture and history of Shi'ite Islam By Juan Ricardo Cole
- ^ Art and culture: endeavours in interpretation By Ahsan Jan Qaisar, Som Prakash Verma, Mohammad Habib
- ^ a b "Saadat-Ali-Khan (1798-1814)". National Informatics Centre. Archived from the original on 3 May 2010.
- ^ nic.in Archived 10 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine accessed 10 September 2007