Birjis Qadr
| Nawab Birjis Qadr | |
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| Wali (Royal title) King of Oudh |
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 6th King of Awadh
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| Reign | 10 May 1857 – 8 July 1859 |
| Predecessor | Wajid Ali Shah |
| Successor | Post Abolished |
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20 August 1845 Qaiser Bagh, Lucknow, India |
| Died | 14 August 1893 (aged 47) Kolkata, India |
| Dynasty | Awadh |
| Father | Wajid Ali Shah |
| Mother | Begum Hazrat Mahal |
| Religion | Shia Islam |
Berjis Qadr (Hindi: बिरजिस क़द्र 20 August 1845 – 14 August 1893) was the son of Wajid Ali Shah, and was lastPadshah-e Awadh, Shah-e Zaman or Nawb of Oudh.
Qadra and his subjects fought Britain's military presence in India by joining a diverse and united front of Indian kings, queens and rebels in the Revolt of 1857.
Prince Birjees Qadr migrated to Kathmandufor sake of shelter from the retributive British Army, which wrested control of Qadra's kingdom of Oudh or Lucknow from the king and his mother. He was given shelter during the rule of Jang Bahadur Ranain Nepal, against the precious jewels he managed to retain from extraction by the British. He lived in Kathmandu for eighteen years before moving to Kolkata. He was a poet and shayar. He organized many tarahi mahfil e mushairahin Kathmandu which were recorded during the same period by writer Khwaja Naeemudddin Badakhshi. The record of his majlis e mushalirahwere discovered by Professor Abdurrauf and Adil Sarwar Nepali in Kathmandu in 1995 and published in the work Nepal mein Urdu Shairi.
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