AWADH

Specialty Definition: Awadh

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Awadh or Oudh was a princely state of India. It signed a treaty with the East India Company in 1765. In 1856 it was annexed into the British Raj directly, and later the ruler was exiled.

Its capital was usually Lucknow, now in Uttar Pradesh.

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