Janab-e-Alia
Janab-e-Alia,1858, princess of Avadh. She was the wife of King Amjad Ali Shah (d. 1848) and the mother of Wajid Ali Shah, the last ruler of Avadh. She had gone to England, some time before the great mutiny (1857) to plead for her son who had been deposed in 1856. But after the failure of the mutiny she found herself deserted by her supporters, and sought to return to India through France, visiting holy places of Mecca and Kerbala on the way. She could not reach India, and died in France and was burried in a Muslim cemetry in Paris, adjacent to the mosque of Osmani Legation. Her son, Sikandar Hashmat, who had accompanied her, also died of shock a week later, and was buried near her mother.
