Awadh’s Last Ruler Nawab Wajid Ali Shah's Great-Grandson Passes Away

Mirza Kaukub Qadr, the great-grandson of the last ruler of Awadh Nawab Wajid Ali Shah and an ex-professor of the Aligarh Muslim University, died at 87 in Kolkata on September 13. He is survived by his wife from Lucknow’s Khandaan-e-Ijtehaad family, and six children. He will be buried at his family burial ground Gulshanabad in Kolkata. He had worked as a research consultant for Satyajit Ray’s film ‘Shatranj ke Khilari’.