Nawab Definition

Nawab Sentence Examples

• On the dismemberment of the Delhi empire, it was seized by Safdar Jang, the nawab wazir of Oudh, by whose grandson it was ceded to the East India Company by the treaty of 1775.

• The chief, whose title is nawab, is a Mahommedan, of Afghan descent.

• His pecuniary bargains with Shuja-ud-Dowlah, the nawab wazir of Oudh, stand on a different basis.

• The district was acquired by the East India Company under the treaty with Nawab Mir Kasim in 1760, and confirmed by the emperor Shah Alam in 1765.

• The nawab's officers fired upon a British boat, and forthwith all Bengal was in a blaze.