nawab

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India no longer has royals and Awadh, once a princely state ruled by semi-autonomous Muslim nawabs, now exists only as a historical region in central Uttar Pradesh.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

In building the foundations of the East India Company, Clive defeated the French and assorted forgotten nawabs; these sections of the book read more like Kipling than Kiplinger.

From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2010

In the Chamber, princes, nawabs, rajas and maharajas sat under their painted armorial shields, fingering their silky beards, their brocaded turbans, their jeweled necklaces, delighted that the Viceroy had revived this ceremony.

From Time Magazine Archive

The viziers and nawabs that ruled in the name of the emperors rendered them neither obedience nor tribute.

From Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 by Kennedy, James

In Hindostan, land is owned either by government or by the native rajahs and nawabs.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 by Various