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| | asifuddaulah |
 | | Description: Portrait of Asaf al-Daula, Nawab of Oudh (1775-1797), holding a sword and seated on a green velvet chair in an archway, a red patterned carpet on the floor. |
 | | Despite this contemporary description of the Nawab as a bungling glutton, ghazals praising his generosity to the people, especially during the famine of 1783-84, were still being recited during the nineteenth-century (Bayly 1990, p.82, no.78). |
 | | Indeed Bosworth writes that 'under its local rulers, Oudh, and especially the capital Luknow, with its court circle, witnessed a burgeoning of Urdu literature' (Clifford Edmund Bosworth, The New Islamic Dynasties, Edinburgh, 2004, p.337). |
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