Huge-grandson of Awadh’s final ruler Nawab Wajid Ali Shah dies

Mirza Kaukub Qadr, the huge-grandson of the final ruler of Awadh Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, and the grandson of Mirza Birjis Qadr, handed away in Kolkata on Sunday at 4.25 pm. He turned 87.

Mirza Kaukub Qadr, used professor with the Aligarh Muslim School, is survived by his spouse, Mamlikat Badr from Lucknow’s neatly-known Shia cleric family, and 6 youngsters.

Qadr will greater than possible be laid to leisure at Mutiyaburj in Kolkata on the family burial floor, Gulshanabad, acknowledged his daughter Manzilat Fatima who lives in Kolkata.

Neatly-known movie director, Satyajit Ray had consulted Dr Kaukub Qudr on his research work on Wajid Ali Shah and his literary and cultural contributions, acknowledged Fatima.

He turned a research advisor to Satyajit Ray for the movie ‘Shatranj ke Khilari’ and gratefully acknowledged by Ray in his subsequent writings.