5 Incredible Facts About The Nawabs Of India Your History Textbook Didn’t Teach You

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5 Incredible Facts About The Nawabs Of India Your History Textbook Didn’t Teach You


Our history is full of victorious and fascinating stories of Maharajas and Nawabs. We write about them, we read about them, but sometimes some of the most important but not very known historical facts are forgotten, or not mentioned enough. Here are 5 Nawabs from the pages of history that we all should know about. Read on, you'll know why.



3. Nawab Mir Osman Ali Khan had over 15,000 full-time employees

When he died in 1967, he had exactly  14,718 employees, with 3000 Arab men alone guarding him at his palace, 28 employees to get drinking water, and 38 to dust the chandeliers. Not just that, he had several employees who would grind walnuts and had a few more to prepare beetle nuts for him to chew.


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4. Nawab of Awadh, Lucknow employed over 20,000 people during a famine to ensure they didn't starve

Nawab Muhammad Yahiya Meerza Amani Asaf-ud-Daula, was the Nawab of Awadh in 1783 but under the rule of the British. This is when a famine hit his reign and the British Queen refused to do anything about it. In order to employ people so they don't starve, he started the construction of the now famous tourist attraction BBada Imambara. He paid 20,000 people and made sure the construction lasted as long as the famine did.


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