Begum Hazrat Mahal — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Begum Hazrat Mahal; used for entity facts only. It recounts her birth as Muhammadi Khanum at Faizabad, her entry into Wajid Ali Shah's harem and the title 'Hazrat Mahal' after the birth of her son Birjis Qadr, her regency of Awadh in 1857–1858 and leadership of the resistance to the East India Company, and her flight to Nepal, where she died at Kathmandu on 7 April 1879.

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