Birjis Qadr

Berjis Qadr (Hindi: बिरजिस क़द्र, Urdu: برجیس قدر‎) (c. 1845 – August 14, 1893) was the son of Wajid Ali Shah, and was lastPadshah-e Awadh, Shah-e Zaman or Nawb of Oudh.

Qadra and his subjects fought Britain's military presence in India by joining a diverse and united front of Indian kings, queens and rebels to launch the First War of Independence .

Timeline

Prince Birjees Qadr migrated to Kathmandu for sake of shelter from the retributive British Army, which wrested control of Qadra's kingdom of Oudh or Lucknow from the king and his mother. He was given shelter during the rule of Jang Bahadur Rana in Nepal, against the precious jewels he managed to retain from extraction by the British. He lived in Kathmandu for eighteen years before moving to Kolkata. He was a poet and shayar. He organized many tarahi mahfil e mushairah in Kathmandu which were recorded during the same period by writer Khwaja Naeemudddin Badakhshi. The record of his majlis e mushalirah were discovered by Professor Abdurrauf and Adil Sarwar Nepali in Kathmandu in 1995 and published in the work Nepal mein Urdu Shairi.