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  2. Nabab - Wikipedia

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    Nabab is a 2017 Indo-Bangladeshi action thriller film directed by Joydip Mukherjee and produced by Abdul Aziz and Himanshu Dhanuka under the banner of Jaaz Multimedia and Eskay Movies. [3] The film features Shakib Khan as Nabab, an intelligence agent tasked with a secret operation in West Bengal, India and Subhashree Ganguly as a crime news ...

  3. Nabob - Wikipedia

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    Nabob is an Anglo-Indian term that came to English from Urdu, possibly from Hindustani nawāb / navāb, [2] borrowed into English during British colonial rule in India. [3] It is possible this was via the intermediate Portuguese nababo, the Portuguese having preceded the British in India. [4] The word entered colloquial usage in England from 1612.

  4. Siraj-ud-Daulah - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Mirza Muhammad Siraj-ud-Daulah (1733 – 2 July 1757), commonly known as Siraj-ud-Daulah[a] or Siraj ud-Daula, [6] was the last independent Nawab of Bengal. The end of his reign marked the start of the rule of the East India Company over Bengal and later almost all of the Indian subcontinent.

  5. Nawabs of Bengal - Wikipedia

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    Hereditary (1717–1757) British Empire (1757–1884) The Nawab of Bengal[1][2][3][4] (Bengali: বাংলার নবাব, bāṅglār nôbāb) was the hereditary ruler of Bengal Subah in Mughal India. In the early 18th-century, the Nawab of Bengal was the de facto independent ruler of the three regions of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa which ...

  6. Nawab - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Nawab[a][b] is a royal title indicating a ruler, often of a South Asian state, in many ways comparable to the western title of Prince. The relationship of a Nawab to the Emperor of India has been compared to that of the Kings of Saxony to the German Emperor. [1] In earlier times the title was ratified and bestowed by the reigning ...

  7. Nawab of Dhaka - Wikipedia

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    Nawab of Dhaka. The Nawab of Dhaka (Bengali: "ঢাকার নবাব"), originally spelt in English Nawab of Dacca, was the title of the head of one of the largest Muslim zamindar in British Bengal and Assam, based in present-day Dhaka, Bangladesh. [1] The title of nawab, similar to the British peerage, was conferred upon the head of the ...

  8. Nawab of Pataudi - Wikipedia

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    Nawab of Pataudi. The term Nawab of Pataudi refers to the lineage of rulers of the former princely Pataudi State in Northern India. Pataudi was established in 1804 by the British East India Company, when Faiz Talab Khan, an Afghan Muslim Pashtun of the Barech tribe, who was made the first Nawab, aided them in their battle against the Maratha ...

  9. Le nabab - Wikipedia

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    Le nabab is a three-act opéra comique by Fromental Halévy to a libretto by Eugène Scribe . The title refers to a Nawab or Indian notable. The opera was the last collaboration of Scribe and Halévy, which began in 1835 with La Juive, Halévy's greatest success. It premiered in Paris on 1 September 1853.