Hazrat Mahal (Record no. 72412)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789361132483
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : Samyak Vidyasagar
Distributor address : Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh - 201012
Bill Number : BOS-000544
Bill Date : 06/11/2026
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 954.0317 JON
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Hazrat Mahal
Remainder of title : The Rebel Begam of Awadh.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Rosie Llewellyn-Jones.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc , New Delhi
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Macmillan
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2026
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xix, 273p.
Dimensions 14.7 x 2.5 x 23cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 560
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc BEGAM HAZRAT MAHAL (c. 1820–1879) is an elusive figure in Indian history – her origins and destiny have remained shrouded in ambiguity. The daughter of a slave – likely of African ancestry – and a domestic servant, her birth name is unknown. What is known is that she entered Prince Wajid Ali Shah’s Pari Khana as a courtesan and was renamed thrice before emerging as Hazrat Mahal, one of his many wives. She gave birth to the prince’s son Birjis Qadr in 1844 and, after Wajid Ali inherited the throne, briefly enjoyed the position of a favourite. By the end of the decade, however, the two were divorced.<br/><br/>In 1856, the East India Company annexed Awadh and deposed Wajid Ali Shah. The takeover was sudden and brutal, igniting fear and dissatisfaction among the people. At the same time, the events now known as the First War of Independence were stirring across India. With Wajid Ali exiled and eventually imprisoned in Calcutta, thirteen-year-old Birjis Qadr became the royal figurehead of Awadh’s rebel opposition and his mother, the begam, its de facto leader. Hazrat Mahal appeared immune to prejudice in her attempts to unite the fragmented rebels: powerful landowners, nawabi elite, religious leaders, enraged soldiers and citizenry. Despite her lack of education and experience, she devised military strategy, dealing with two, sometimes three, groups of soldiers with conflicting ideas, and negotiated with an unimaginably powerful enemy, the East India Company itself. And at the centre of her brief rule is one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of British India: the siege of the Lucknow Residency.<br/><br/>Drawing from decades of meticulous research and previously undiscovered archival material – Indian and British – acclaimed historian Rosie Llewellyn-Jones rescues this ruler from obscurity and renders the complexities of nineteenth-century Awadh through the story of its fiercest, most unlikely leader.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Hazrat Mahal, Begam of Awadh, 1820-1879
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element India - History - Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Awadh (India) - History - 19th century
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Rosie Llewellyn-Jones.
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    Dewey Decimal Classification   Not For Loan SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 12/11/2026 Samyak Vidyasagar 560.00   954.0317 JON 31983 12/11/2026 12/11/2026 Books
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