Pearl by the River :
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah’s Kingdom in exile
(Rupa Publication India )
Vintage photograph of Sultan Khana
Wajid
Ali Shah rented a palatial house in Garden Reach paying five hundred rupees per
month for it. The house was a riverside resort of the Maharaja of Burdwan.
However, the English records state that the government was conducive to finding
a decent abode for the ex-king and his retinue. Therefore, a palatial riverside
resort that belonged to Sir Lawrence Peel, the former chief justice of the
Supreme Court in Calcutta, at Garden Reach was rented out to him. Wajid Ali’s
own book Sheo-e-Faiz indicates
that after his arrival in Calcutta Wajid Ali stayed in the house of Burdwan’s
Maharaja, which was rented at five hundred rupees per month. Wajid Ali Shah’s
writing testifies―
Raja Bardhawan ki kothi panch saye ki kiraet per raisa.
Meaning-Burdwan’s Maharaja’s kothi was rented at five
hundred rupees per month. Therefore, the information that Sir Laurence Peel’s
house was arranged by the British, is not true. Moreover, the mansion of
Laurence Peel is more than five kilometres away from the Shahi Masjid along the
river. Contemporary narrator Abdul Halim Sharar, described Shahi Masjid as
King’s personal worship place located adjacent to his palace - Sultan Khana.
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