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| name = '''Asif Jah Mirza Wazir Ali Khan'''<br />
| title = [[Mirza]] (Royal title)<br>[[Nawab]] [[Vizier|Wazir]] of [[Oudh]], Nawab Wazir<br /> ''Marhoom va Muqfoor''<ref group="nt">Posthumous title</ref><br />
| image = WazirAliKhan.jpg<br />
| caption =<br />
| reign = 21 September 1797 – 21 January 1798<br />
| coronation =21 September 1797, [[Lucknow]]<br />
| full name = Asif Jah Mirza Wazir Ali Khan|<br />
| predecessor = [[Asaf-ud-Daula]]<br />
| successor = [[Saadat Ali Khan II|Sa`adat `Ali Khan II]]<br />
| spouse =<br />
| issue =<br />
| royal house = Nishapuri<br />
| dynasty = [[Awadh]]<br />
| father =<br />
| mother =<br />
| religion = [[Shia Islam]]<br />
| birth_date = 19 April 1780<br />
| birth_place = [[Lucknow]]<br />
| death_date = 15 May 1817<br />
| death_place = [[Fort William, India|Fort William]], <br />
| place of burial = '''[[Casia Baguan]]'''<br />
|}}<br />
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'''Wazir Ali Khan''' (b. 19 April 1780 – d. 15 May 1817)<br />
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was the fourth{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} [[Nawab wazir of Oudh]] from 21 September 1797 to 21 January 1798,{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} and the adopted son of [[Asaf-ud-Daula|Asaf-Ud-Daulah]].<br />
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==Life==<br />
[[File: Samuel Davis - Wazir Ali's supporters attack Davis's house - Benares - January 1799.png|thumb|left|Attack on [[Samuel Davis (orientalist)|Samuel Davis]]' House (14{{nbsp}}January 1799)]]<br />
He was the adopted son of [[Asaf-Ud-Dowlah]], who had no son.<ref name=":0" /> He adopted a boy who was the son of his sister. At 13 years of age, Ali was married at the cost of £300,000 in [[Lucknow]].<br />
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After the death of his surrogate father in September 1797, he ascended to the throne (''[[musnud]]''), with the support of the British. Within four months they accused him of being unfaithful. Sir [[John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth|John Shore]] (1751–1834) then moved in with 12 battalions and replaced him with his uncle [[Saadat Ali Khan II]].<ref name=":0" /><br />
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Ali was granted a pension of 3,00,000 Rupees and moved to [[Benares]]. The government in [[Calcutta]] decided that he should be removed further from his former realm.<ref name=":0" /> [[George Frederick Cherry]], a British resident, relayed this order to him on 14{{nbsp}}January 1799 during a breakfast invitation at which Ali had appeared with an armed guard. During the ensuing argument, Ali struck Cherry a blow with his saber, whereupon the guards killed the resident and two more Europeans. They then set out to attack the house of [[Samuel Davis (orientalist)|Samuel Davis]], the Magistrate of Benares, who defended himself on the staircase of his house with a [[pike (weapon)|pike]] until rescued by British troops.<ref>{{cite book|title=Views of Medieval Bhutan: the diary and drawings of Samuel Davis, 1783| first1=Samuel| last1=Davis| first2=Michael| last2=Aris| year=1982| publisher=Serindia| url=https://archive.org/stream/ViewsOfMedievalBhutanTheDiaryAndDrawingsOfSamuelDavis1783MichaelAris/Views%20of%20Medieval%20Bhutan%20--%20the%20Diary%20and%20Drawings%20of%20Samuel%20Davis%201783%20Michael%20Aris#page/n29/mode/2up|page=54}}</ref> The affair became known as the [[Massacre of Benares]].<br />
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Subsequently, Ali assembled a rebellious army of several thousand men. A quickly assembled force commanded by General Erskine moved into Benares and "restored order" by 21 January. Ali fled to [[Azamgarh]]<ref name=":0" /> then to Butwal, [[Rajputana]] where he was granted asylum by the Raja of [[Jaipur]].<ref name=":0" /> On request of [[Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington|Arthur Wellesley, Earl of Mornington]], the Raja turned Ali over to the British on the condition that he neither be hanged nor be put in fetters. Ali surrendered to the British authorities in December 1799 and was placed in rigorous confinement at Fort William, Calcutta.<br />
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The colonial government complied with this: Ali spent the rest of life – 17 years – in an iron cage in [[Fort William, India|Fort William]] in the [[Bengal Presidency]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bn.wikisource.org/s/13lf|title=পাতা:কলিকাতা সেকালের ও একালের.djvu/৯৮১ - উইকিসংকলন একটি মুক্ত পাঠাগার|website=bn.wikisource.org|language=bn|access-date=2018-02-19}}</ref> He was buried in the Muslim graveyard of ''Kasi Baghan''.<br />
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== Children ==<br />
*Mirza Jalaluddin Haidar Ali Jhan Bahadur born 1798, married and got Issue<br />
**Nawab Mubarak ud-Daula, who moved to Ottoman Empire<br />
*Mirza Muhammad Ali Khan<br />
*Sahibzadi Saadatunnisa Begum<br />
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==Timeline==<br />
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{{succession box<br />
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title=[[Nawab of Oudh|Nawab Wazir al-Mamalik of Oudh]]<br />
|<br />
years=21 September 1797 – 21 January 1798<br />
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before=[[Asaf-Ud-Dowlah|Asaf ad-Dowla Amani]]<br />
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after=[[Saadat Ali Khan II|Yamin ad-Dowla Nazem al-Molk Sa`adat `Ali Khan II Bahadur]]<br />
}}<br />
{{s-end}}<br />
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==Literature==<br />
* Baillie, Laureen (Hrsg.): ''Indian Biographical Archiv;'' München, {{ISBN|3-598-34104-0}}, Fiche 492<br />
* Davis, John Francis (1795–1890); [https://archive.org/details/vizieralikhanorm00davi Vizier Ali Khan; or, The massacre of Benares: a chapter in British Indian history .. (1871)] (Orig. 1844) {{PD-notice}}<br />
* Higginbotham, J. J.; ''Men Whom India has Known''. 1874<br />
* Ray, Aniruddha; ''Revolt of Vizir Ali of Oudh at Benares in 1799;'' in: Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 49th Session, Karnatak University, Dharwad, 1988: S 331–338<br />
*''Kartoos'' by Habib Tanvir<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=स्पर्श भाग 2|publisher=NCERT|isbn=81-7450-647-0|location=New Delhi|pages=127|language=hi|chapter=कारतूस|chapter-url=http://ncertbooks.prashanthellina.com/class_10.Hindi.Sparsh/ch-17.pdf}}</ref><br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://lucknow.nic.in/Wazir.htm National Informatics Centre, Lucknow – Rulers of Awadh]<br />
* [http://oudh.tripod.com/misc/noosec.htm#wak NAWABS OF OUDH & THEIR SECULARISM – Dr. B. S. Saxena]<br />
* [http://www.indiancoins.8m.com/awadh/AwadhHist.html#WazirAliKhan HISTORY OF AWADH (Oudh) a princely State of India by Hameed Akhtar Siddiqui]<br />
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