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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indian scholar of the Urdu language}}<br />
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'''Kaukab Quder Sajjad Ali Meerza''' (also '''Dr M Kaukab''') (1933 – September 13, 2020) was an Indian scholar of the [[Urdu]] language<ref name=telegraph-india-chaudhury>{{citation|last=Chaudhuri |first= Moumita|newspaper=[[The Telegraph (India)|The Telegraph]] | location=Kolkata | title=Jab chhor chale ... Nakhlau nagari: A portraiture of the recently departed Kaukab Quder, a man who lived his heritage, loved it, and never tried to ride it|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/heritage/a-portraiture-of-the-recently-departed-kaukab-quder-a-man-who-lived-his-heritage-loved-it-and-never-tried-to-ride-it/cid/1793776|access-date=7 September 2021|date=10 October 2020}}</ref><br />
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A specialist in the literature of [[Oudh State|Awadh State]] during the reign of his great-grandfather and Awadh's last [[Nawab of Awadh|Nawab]], [[Wajid Ali Shah]] (1822–1887), Meerza taught Urdu at [[Aligarh Muslim University]], retiring in 1993.<ref name=telegraph-india-chaudhury/> The Indian filmmaker, [[Satyajit Ray]] consulted with Meerza over many months during the writing of the screenplay for his 1977 award-winning film [[The Chess Players (film)|''Shatranj ke Khilari'']] (''The Chess Players''), which was set in [[Awadh]] in the period immediately preceding the [[Indian rebellion of 1857]].<ref name=indian-express-banka>{{citation|last=Banka |first= Neha|newspaper=[[Indian Express]]| title=The real Prince of Awadh |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/research/the-real-prince-of-awadh-6179168/|access-date=7 September 2021|date=4 January 2020}}</ref><br />
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Meerza was an enthusiast of [[snooker]]; he refereed many tournaments and was the founder-secretary of the [[Billiards and Snooker Federation of India]].<ref name=telegraph-india-chaudhury/><br />
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The last pensioner in the [[Awadh Pension Book of 1897]] established by the [[British Raj]] and honoured by the [[Government of India]] after 1947, and the only surviving great-grandson of Wajid Ali Shah, Meerza died of complications from [[COVID-19]] at age 87 in [[Kolkata]] on 14 September 2020.<ref name=indian-express-banka/><ref name=telegraph-india-chaudhury/><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Company rule in India]]<br />
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