THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 1803–1856

Kingdom of Awadh (Oudh), reduced

The treaty of 1801 took about half of Awadh (Rohilkhand, the lower Doab and Gorakhpur) for the Company. The rest survived as a protected kingdom until Dalhousie annexed it in February 1856.

Its nawabs took the title of king (padshah) from 1819. Tarai lands on its northern edge were added after the Anglo-Nepalese war (1816).

See Kingdom of Awadh (Oudh), reduced on the map in 1803

On the map
1803–1856
Capital
Lucknow

Rulers named in the sources

South Asian kingdoms, 1550–1857

From the fall of Vijayanagara's capital to the Revolt of 1857, beside the Mughal, Maratha, Durrani and British realms and a few successor states, many kingdoms ruled themselves. In the south: Travancore, Cochin, the Zamorin's Calicut, the Keladi Nayakas, the last Aravidu kings of Vijayanagara, the Nayaks of Gingee, and Mysore through the Wodeyar, Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan periods. In the Deccan and centre: the Gond kingdoms of Garha-Mandla, Deogarh and Chanda, Bastar, Ratanpur, Hyderabad after 1799, Nagpur, Satara, and the Holkar, Scindia and Gaekwad states after 1818. In the north: the Rajput kingdoms and Jat Bharatpur after the Mughal collapse, Rohilkhand, the reduced Awadh of 1803–56, Kumaon, Garhwal, Ladakh and Sikkim. In the east: the Ahom, Koch, Kachari, Jaintia, Manipur and Tripura kingdoms. In the west: Kutch and the Khanate of Kalat.

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