Uttar Pradesh |
Until 1722 (formally until 1819) Awadh was a province of the Mughal Empire. From 1722 to
1856 the Nawab of Awadh was a ruler in his own right. In 1856 Awadh was annexed by British India (the
East India Company) and formed the Province of Awadh. In 1877 the Provinces of Agra and Awadh were merged to form
the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, after independence renamed
Uttar Pradesh (U.P.). Timeline : Awadh Historical Atlas, Awadh, Uttar Pradesh, British India, India Page |
DIRECTORY OF INTERNET SOURCES . . . EXTERNAL FILES |
Profiles |
Article : Awadh, from Wikipedia |
Links, General |
Category : Awadh, from Wikipedia |
Historical Maps |
Schwartzberg, Historical Atlas of South Asia, posted by DSAL Maps of India; Historical Maps of India, links from Rootsweb Map of Oudh 1880, from Wikipedia |
Timelines |
Accounts of History |
Articles : Awadh,
Nawab of Awadh, from Wikipedia History of Awadh, by Hameed Akhtar Siddiqui B.S. Saxena, Nawabs of Oudh and their Secularism The Royal House of Oudh H.C. Irwin, The garden of India; or, Chapters on Oudh history and affairs 1880, posted on Internet Archive The Royal Family of Oudh (Awadh), by Christopher Buyers |
Specific Periods |
Purmendu Basu, Oudh and the East India Company 1785-1801,
1943, posted on Internet Archive R.W. Bird, The Spoliation of Oudh, 1857, posted on Internet Archive |
Accounts of History of India w Reference to Oudh |
Edwin Arnold, The Marquis of Dalhousie's administration of British India,
vol.2,
Annexation of Pegu, Nagpor, and Oudh, and a general review of Lord Dalhousie's rule in India, 1862, posted on Internet Archive |
Encyclopedia Entries |
Article : Oudh, from
Imperial Gazetteer of India (1909-1931) posted by DSAL |
Administration |
Malcolm Lewin, Has Oude been worse governed by its native princes
than our Indian territories by Leadenhall Street ? 1857, posted on Internet Archive |
Military |
Article : Rohilla War 1772-1774,
from India Net Zone |
Economy |
India, from Global History of Currencies Article : Economic History of India : Nawabs, Marathas and Nizams, from Wikipedia |
Ethnology |
Social History |
Article Widow Burning, from Encyclopedia of Death and Dying Rajkumar Sarvadhkari, The Taluqdari Settlements in Oudh 1882, posted on Internet Archive |
Religion |
Sikh Relations with Nawab of Oudh, from
The Sikh Encyclopedia Cole, J. R. I. Roots of North Indian Shi'ism in Iran and Iraq: Religion and State in Awadh, 1722-1859., Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. |
Regional History |
Local History |
Article : Lucknow from Wikipedia Historic City Lucknow, from City of Lucknow Ancient City : Awadh, from India Net Zone |
Cultural History |
Ikramuddin Qidwai, The Court Life under the Nawabs of Awadh (1754-1797),
1960 thesis Architecture under the Nawabs of Awadh, from India Net Zone The Post-Mughal Style of Architecture : Avadh (Oudh) Style, from Culturopedia |
Biographies |
Others |
History of Indian Science and Technology, from Indian Science |
Bibliographies |
Bibliography on Topics Relevant to Indic Civilization, from Indic Studies Search RHS Bibliography for Awadh, Oudh |
DIRECTORY OF INTERNET SOURCES . . . EXTERNALLY POSTED DOCUMENTS |
Lists of Statesmen |
List of Nawabs of Awadh, from Wikipedia List of Chief Commissioners of Oudh 1856-1877, from Wikipedia |
Contemporary Travelogues |
Mahomet, Dean. The Travels of Dean Mahomet: An Eighteenth-Century Journey
through India., Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. W.H. Sleeman, A journey through the kingdom of Oude in 1849-1850, with private correspondence relative to the annexation of Oude to British India, vol.1, vol.2 1858, posted on Internet Archive |
Document Collections |
C.U. Aitchison, A Collection of treaties, engagements, and sunnuds, relating to India and neighbouring countries,
vol.2 (1892),
The treaties, &c., relating to the N. W. Provinces, Oudh, Nipal, the Punjab and the states on the Punjab frontier, posted on Internet Archive |
Archives, Musea |
D. Dewar, A hand-book to the English pre-mutiny records in
the government record rooms of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh 1875, posted on Internet Archive Aloys Sprenger, A catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Hindu'sta'ny manuscripts, of the libraries of the King of Oudh vol.1, Persian and Hindustany poetry, 1854, posted on Internet Archive |
State Symbols |
Flag, from Wikipedia |
Coins |
Articles : Coins of Awadh, from India Net Zone Awadh Coins 1718-1858, from Collection Hameed Akhtar Siddiqui Coins from the Princely States of India, from Nupam's Webpage for the Indian Coins; scroll down for Awadh |
Others |
Search Bridgeman Art, Culture & History Images for Oudh |
PRINTED REFERENCE |
Online Libraries |
Internet Archive;
Project Gutenberg, Online Catalogue Indcat, Online Uinion Catalogue of Indian Universities, from INFLIBNET, click Union Database Digitial Library of Indian History Books, from Indic Studies Pakistan Research Repository |
Online Journals |
South Asia Journals, from ELIN-NIAS;
India Journals, from ELIN-NIAS Asia Insights, from NIAS, 2002- |
General History of India |
B.D. Metcalf and T.R. Metcalf, A Concise History of India, Cambridge : UP 2002, 321 pp., KMLA Lib.Sign. 954 M588c Vincent A. Smith, The Oxford History of India, (1919) Oxford : UP 2001, 945 pp., KMLA Lib.Sign. 954 S642b Gordon Johnson, Cultural Atlas of India, NY : Facts on File 1996, 240 pp., illustrated, KMLA Lib.Sign. 954 J66c H.S. Bhatta, Military History of British India (1607-1947), New Delhi : Deep & Deep 1977, 256 pp. [G] Francis Watson, India. A Concise History, London : Thames & Hudson (1974) 1996, 192 pp. [G] |
General History Awadh |
S.N. Singh, The Kingdom of Awadh. Its History, Polity and Administration. New Delhi : Mittal 2003 [G] |
Specific Topics |
Muzaffar Alam, The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India. Awadh & the Punjab, Oxford : UP (1986) 2001 [G] Kapil Kumar, Peasants in Revolt. Tenants, Landlords, Congress & the Raj in Oudh 1886-1922, Delhi : Manohar 1994 [G] |