Brandon, Mary Rose, attendant to queen-mother, 27, 39
Calcutta; description of, 240; Fort William, 116–117; High Court, 182; Hugli river, 205, 208, 239; Municipal improvements in, 198; Royal Botanic Garden, 205–208, 210; tiger exhibition, 213; theatres in, 241; Zoological Gardens, 214, 215, 217
Canning, Lord, governor general 17, 24, 192, 248; appointed Viceroy, 123; arrests the king, 116–117; comments on queen-mother, 29; correspondence with Vernon-Smith 24; orders 21 gun salute for king 20; refusal to recognise king’s agent, 18, 29; retires to England, 193; warns king about debts, 170; warns king again 173; writes to king, 121
Cavenagh, Colonel Orfeur, town major at Calcutta, 116; visits king in jail 118, 120, 122
Cawnpore, 17, 79, 250, 251
Chand Mehtab Bahadur, Maharajah of Burdwan, 20, 167
Chess Players, The (Shatranj ke Khilari), film 255
Clarendon, Lord, 44
Clark, Sir George, governor of Bombay, 35, 40
Colvin, Sir Auckland, 233, 234
Crimean War, 11, 106
Currie, Sir Frederick, chairman East India Company, 21, 98
Dalhousie, Marquess, governor general, 14, 16, 26; annexation ‘a parting coup’ 109; comments on king 101–102; refuses to meet king, 106; takes up office, 82; views on Awadh, 97–98
Dara Jah, prince, 233–234
Delhi, king’s property in, 172; National Archives, 9, 245
Derusett, George Harris (‘Barber of Lucknow’), 27
Digest of Mohummudan Law, 132, 155
Diyanat ud-Daulah, eunuch, 76, 90, 120; buys goods for king, 188; death of, 189
Dufferin, Lord Frederick, governor general 159, 256, 257, 261, 270
Duke of Wellington Fund, 105–6
Duleep Singh, deposed maharajah, 11, 39, 251
Durand, Major General Sir Henry Marion, 174
Durand, Captain Henry Mortimer, agent to king, 197, 225, 233, 246, 257, 270
East India Company; annexation policy, 68; charter renewed 1853, 25; Court of Directors, 17, 36, 82, 113, 166; loans from Awadh rulers, 67, 84, 254, 256; 1801 treaty, 62, 81, 288 n34; 1837 treaty, 72, 104; 1856 treaty, 114, 115
Eden, Sir Ashley, lieutenant governor Bengal, 209–210, 221, 235
Eden, Emily, 139
Edmonstone, George, secretary Foreign Department, 18, 19
Elgin, Earl of, governor general 173, 174, 248
Elliot, Sir Henry, secretary Foreign Department, 78, 80, 92, 93–95
The Englishman and Military Chronicle newspaper 23, 26, 213
Faizabad, 62, 110, 112
Falak Qadr, prince, heir apparent, 77–78, 79; death of, 100
fall of the rupee, 268–9
Farid-ud-Din Qadr, heir apparent, 156, 224–227, 228
Farzand ‘Ali, Police deputy superintendent, Lucknow, 69, 72, 75
Fateh-ud-daula, paymaster general 118; death in prison, 120
Fayrer, Dr (later Sir) Joseph, 107, 108, 214
Gajadhar Lal, accountant, 178–179
Garden Reach, (Matiya Burj) Calcutta; auctions at, 263; archives, 9, 264; daru’l hakumat, 88; ‘debauchery and rioting’ in, 194; dependants left at, 267; description of, 165–167, 239–240; entertainers at, 241; fire at, 147; furnishings for, 178; gas lights at, 202; hired houses at, 20; jurisdiction in, 191; menagerie at, (see separate heading, menagerie); palace accounts, 179; policing in, 193, 196; poor construction of, 201; population of, 144; sanitary conditions poor, 196–197, 226; schools at, 228–233; ‘second Lucknow’ 232; servants left at, 268; ‘Sharar’s’ description of, 199–200, 201–202; Sibtainabad Imambarah, 244, 259, 264, 272; staff employed at, 242–243; Sultan Khana house, 167–168, 169, 173, 218, 241, 257, 271–272; supposed decline of, 198; 1864 cyclone, 200
Garden Reach Road, (now Nawab Wajid Ali Shah Road), 167–8, 242, 244 259, 272–273
Ghazi ud-Din Haider, king, 84–86
Gomti river, 55
Hakeem Mahomed Munshee (Muhammad Munshi), 223, 225
Hamid ‘Ali, prince, heir apparent, 12, 34, 35, 36, 41, 47, 224, 227, 228; meets James Outram, 108; delays return to Calcutta, 122
Hamilton & Co, jewellers, 147, 264
Hanuman Dubey, sentry, 116
Harley House, Marylebone, 31, 33, 42
Hayes, Captain Fletcher, 186, 295 n31
Hazrat Mahal, begam, (Mahak Pari), 5–6, 16; birth of son, 133, 142; flees to Nepal 123; left in Lucknow 143; parents, 137
Hazrat Maryam Makani, king’s grandmother, 137
Herbert, Major Charles, government agent to king, 8, 146, 169, 179, 184, 189–190, 191, 193; accompanies king from jail, 124; advice on tradesmen, 175–176; denies being ‘in charge of king’, 192; introduces Amir ‘Ali to king, 180; visits Garden Reach after fire, 147–149; visits jail, 118, 122
Hickey, William, author 166
Hodges, William, artist, 165
Home, Robert, court artist 85
Hur Pari, king’s wife, 54
Ilbert Bill, 195
Imdad Husain Khan (Amin-ud-daula), chief minister Awadh, 59, 70; dismissed 73–74; kidnapped 71–72; receives pension 77
India Office Library, London, 245
Indian delegations to London, 22
Iqbal-ud-daulah, claimant to Awadh throne, 59, 87
Iqtidar-ud-daulah, eyewitness at Qaisarbagh performance, 52–53
Ishqnamah, (also known as Pari Khana), king’s autobiography, 54, 129–130; description of, 135–138
Isle of Wight, 11, 165
Janab-i ‘Aliyyah, queen-mother, 100, 283 n4, 286 n8; arrival in Paris 44–45; arrival in London 30; arrival in Southampton 11–17, 22; audience with Queen Victoria 40–41; death and funeral in Paris 45–46, 121; lack of funds, 35; leaves Calcutta 23; leaves Southampton by train, 33; meets James Outram 114; pantomime visit 38–39; petitions to Parliament rejected 41–42; receives visitors, 31
Jarratt, Colonel, Persian scholar, 263
Jehan Qadr, prince, nephew of king, 232, 271
Julus-ud-daulah, ADC to king, 34, 41
Kamal-ud-Din Haider, author, 103
Khanum Begam, king’s wife, 152
Khas Mahal, official wife of king, 131–132, 133, 142, 143, 258, 260; claims crown jewels, 147; demands separate pension, 146; leaves Garden Reach 222–223, 228; moves to new house 150; refuses to sign affidavit, 151; takhallus ‘Alam’ 132
King, Dr George, superintendent Royal Botanic Garden, 206, 208, 214
Lawrence, Sir Henry, chief commissioner Awadh, 146, 226
Lawrence, Sir John, governor general, 135, 174, 178, 182, 186, 246, 253; comments on High Court case, 183; verdict on king’s debtors, 188
Legislative Acts, 1857, Act XIV, 116; 1862, Act VIII, 173, 177, 181; 1868, Act XIII, 186; 1887, Act XIX, 280
Login, Dr John, 71, 252
Login, Lady, 30, 139
Lucas, Samuel, radical writer, 37
Lucknow; Akhtarnagar, 64; Alam Bagh, 132, 223; British Residency 60, 71, 146; Chattar Manzil, 80, 130; Daulat Khana Palace, 52; exodus from, 145, 168, 171; Farhat Bakhsh Palace, 60, 66; Hussainabad Picture Gallery, 55, 90, 128; karbala Diyanat ud-Daulah, 189; Lal Barahdari, 60, 66–67, 85; menagerie, 212–213; Rashk-e-Iram, 141; royal libraries, 93–95; Qaisarbagh Palace (see separate entry, Qaisarbagh); Sibtainabad Imambarah, 67; Taronwali Kothi (Observatory) 102–103, 228–229; temples destroyed 68–69
Lyall, Alfred, secretary to government, 157
Mackenzie Lyall & Co, valuers, 266
Mackinnon & Mackenzie, letting agents, 231
Mahak Pari (see Hazrat Mahal)
Maine, Henry, lawyer, 175
Malcolm, Sir John, 250
Malleson, Major George, agent to king, 139, 152, 153
Manchester, 25–26; Art Treasures Exhibition 41
Manohar Das, moneylender, 173
Martin, Major General Claude, 131, 293 n14
Mashuq Mahal,
king’s wife, 143, 161; death of, 224; divorced 156–157; enhanced pension, 159
Masih-ud-Din Khan Bahadur, maulawi, king’s agent in England, 34–35, 41, 43, 46, 47, 122; publishes Oude: Its Princes and Its Government Vindicated, 38
Mayo, Earl of, governor general, 245–246, 247
Meer Hassan Ali, Mrs, 140
menageries, origins of, 210–212
menagerie at Garden Reach, 207, 209, 210, 213; animals starving, 265; animal fights at 211; auctioned off, 266; costs of, 219–220; criticism of, 207, 209; description of, 218–219; inspection party visit 216; menagerie committee set up, 217, 222; tigers’ escape from 206–209
Menzies, Thomas, king’s agent, 18, 20
Mir Mahdi, king’s companion in Lucknow, 69, 70, 75
Mir Qasim, nawab of Bengal, 83
Muhammad ‘Ali Shah, king, 104, 137
Muhammad Babur, prince, 233
Muharram, 67, 86, 88, 102, 111, 241, 244, 257
Munawwar-ud-daula, nawab, chief minister Awadh, 19
Murshidabad, 4, 245
Musharraf ud-daulah (Haji Sharif) i/c king’s bodyguard, 75
Mustafa Khan, half-brother to the king, 60
mut‘ah marriages, 133; categories of, 139–140; wives at Garden Reach, 269–271
Mysore princes, 222; Ghulam Muhammad, prince, 252–253, 254, 255
Nasir ud-Din Haider, king, 112, 189, 211, 228; employs Brandon, 27
New York Times, The, 239
Nosherwan Qadr, prince, king’s first son 5, 60, 77
Otway, Sir Arthur, MP, 25, 39
Oude Blue Book, 37–38
Ouseley, Colonel Richard, king’s agent, 43–44
Outram, Colonel (later General Sir) James, British Resident 16, 28; arrival in Lucknow 108–109; briefed on annexation 113–114
Paddington Old Cemetery, 46
Pari Khana (see Ishqnamah)
paris (fairies) 141–142
Peacock, Captain Henry, agent to king, 186–188, 194, 222
Peel, Sir Lawrence, chief justice, 165, 167
Peninsular & Oriental Company, 272
Père Lachaise cemetery, Paris, 45, 47–48
Pioneer, The, newspaper, 182, 253
Prideaux, Colonel William agent to king, 193–194, 196, 256, 257, 258, 260; winds up Garden Reach estate, 261 et seq
Prince of Wales, 215–216; visit to Calcutta, 217
Private Life of an Eastern King (William Knighton, author) 112–113
Private Life of an Eastern Queen (William Knighton, author) 283 n4
Punch, magazine, 13–14
Qaisar Begam, wife of King, 98, 134
Qaisarbagh Palace; cost of 57; criticism of, 56; description of, 57–58; painting of, 49–50; sack of, 135; Safed Barahdari, 6, 50, 58; theatrical performances in, 51; treasury, 146; Yogi Mela, 54–55
Qamar Qadr, prince, heir apparent, 235, 258, 259, 264, 265
Raja Balkrishan, diwan, 65, 66, 115
Ram Brahma Sanyal, superintendent Zoological Gardens, 214–215, 266
Randall, Captain, agent to king, 248
Rawlinson, Major Henry, chairman Court of Directors, 36, 289 n5; agent in Baghdad, 67
Rayhan-ud-daulah, garden superintendent, 216, 219
Richmond, Colonel Archibald, British Resident in Awadh, 67, 69, 88; rebuked by governor general, 70, 72; negotiations with kidnappers, 71; vetoes Court appointments, 75–76, 80–81
Ripon, Marquess of, governor general, 249, 253
Roebuck, Rt. Hon. John, MP 25
Russell, William Howard, The Times correspondent, 215
Rutledge, William, animal dealer, 219–220, 265–266
Safaraz Pari (later Mahal), wife of king, 134, 136–137
Safdar ‘Ali, munshi, king’s agent 148, 176, 177, 179–180, 187; creditor to king 157; gets deeds of Sultan Khana, 173; ‘Heirs of Safdar ‘Ali’ 182, 186
Sally Begam, 131–132
Sayyid Dildar ‘Ali Naqvi, cleric, 87
Sayyid Muhammad Nasirabandi, cleric, 86, 111
Shah Alam II, Mughal emperor, 131, 132
Shah Ghulam Husain, religious activist, 110–111
Shahzadi Sahibah, princess, 269–270
Shakespear, John, British Resident, 61
‘Sharar’, Abdul Halim, author, 57, 141
Shi‘a, faith of the nawabs, 86, 244
Shuja-ud-daulah, nawab 77, 83
Sikandar Hashmat, prince, younger brother to king, 34, 35, 36, 41, 54, 79, 101, 115, 130; death of 46, 122
Sindh, amirs of, 235, 251
Sleeman, Major General Sir William, British Resident, 21, 37, 55, 61, 88; appointed Resident, 96–98; expels Brandon 28; negative reports on king 107; paranoid behaviour, 101; plans to retire, 108; suggests new treaty, 100; winter tour of Awadh 103–104
Southampton, 12
Soutter, Mr, Police commissioner, Calcutta, 206, 208, 209, 216–217
Sprenger, Dr Aloys 93–95
Statesman, The, newspaper, 257–259
ta’luqdars, 62
tawa’if, 3, 141
temporary structures, 52
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane 38
Times, The newspaper 13, 31, 32, 36, 37
Thomson, Colonel Mowbray, agent to king, 153, 201, 216, 219, 221, 222, 225, 239, 279; comments on tiger escape, 208–209; criticises king, 156–160; ‘hero of the mutiny’154; views on king’s divorces 155, 223
Tipu Sultan of Mysore, 250, 252, 254–255
Uprising (mutiny) of 1857/58, 40, 116
vaccination in India, 197
Vernon-Smith, Robert, president, Board of Control; comments on royal delegation 25–26, 29–30; visits queen-mother 39
Victoria, queen; agrees gun salute for king, 246; assassination attempt, 249; attitude to king, 36; attitude to queen-mother 39; meets queen-mother, 40–41; patronises ‘deposed despots’ 29; presented with Ishqnamah, 135; privy purse, 181; receives taziatnamah from king, 249; 1858 proclamation, 6, 16, 123
Wajid Ali Shah; anticipated death by British officials, 78, 100, 175, 183–184, 251, 256; appointed heir apparent, 60; arrival of wives in Calcutta 145; assaulted by prison guard, 120; blames Safdar ‘Ali, 185, 187; borrows money from Company 42; character of 10, 61, 256, 279; claims by creditors, 185–186; complaints boxes, 89; confronts Major Thomson, 162; Cophetua syndrome, 142; coronation of, 66–67; Dastur-i-Wajidi, manual of government, 99–100; deafness, 59, 80; death of, 257; defends his menagerie, 217–218, 220; describes his journey to Calcutta 19–20; description of, 50, 59, 128, 256; dies intestate, 260; divorces mut‘ah wives, 154–156, 159–160; education of, 59; education of his sons, 229, 235; funeral of, 2, 259; gullibility of, 177, 183, 187; hypochondriac behaviour, 100–101; illness complaints, 118–119; impotence of, 235; leaves Lucknow for Calcutta 17; describes his journey 19–20; Fort William imprisonment 40, 278; identifies with Lord Krishna, 54; meeting with governor-general, 78–80; narrative poems (masnavi) 51, 119; pension from British government 36, 114, 146, 193, 227; pension deductions, 156–161; pleads illness, 23; religious attitude, 88; reply to Oude Blue Book, 38; reviews Awadh regiments, 90; ‘singing and dancing men,’73; ‘sunk in debauchery’ 153; support for British 124, 253; theatrical director, 53–54; venereal illness, 98–99, 134; views on 1857 Uprising; visits Zoological Gardens 214–215; takhallus (Akhtar) 51; 1847 visit to Cawnpore, 79; 21-gun salutes, 6, 20, 245–246
Wajid Mahal, wife of king; divorced 156, 157–158
wasiqahdars, pensioners of the king, 77
Wauchope, Samuel, Police commissioner, Calcutta, 191–192
Wilcox, Colonel Richard, astronomer, 79, 102–3
Wood, Sir Charles, secretary of State for India, 253
Yasmin Pari, (later Mahal) wife of king, 54, 134, 137
‘Zafar’, Bahadur Shah, king of Delhi, 86, 252
Zulfiqar ud-daulah, king’s brother in law, 120, 176; gets deeds of Sultan Khana, 173