State · 1732 – 1859
Oudh State
A state of 1732 – 1859 — 127 years in South Asia. It was replaced by India. The atlas records 2 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 1. Its line of rulers holds 2 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 127 years
- 1732 – 1859
- Rulers
- 2
- the Nawab of Awadh
- Most ground
- 116,100 km²
- in 1794
- Within it
- 2
- recorded rows
- Symbol
- 1
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
After it
- India · replaced by · 1950 – present
Rulers
Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saadat Ali Khan I | 1722 – 1739 | 17 years | ending not on record | |
| Wajid Ali Shah | 1847 – 1856 | 9 years | exiled, imprisoned or confined, the article saysread from the ruler's own article |
2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1722 – 1856. Median reign 13 years. 0 of 1 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
103,000 km² in 1732, 115,400 km² in 1802; at its largest 115,400 km² in 1802. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Flag or arms
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedFlag of Awadh · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Utcursch
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1700 – 17991 row
- Shuja-ud-Daula · politician · 1732 – 1775
1800 – 18991 row · 1 wars and battles
- Siege of Lucknow · battle · 1857
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood127 years
stood longer than 52% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held116,100 km²
held more ground at its peak than 48% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median17 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 54% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record2
has more rulers on record than 34% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 4 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Theories that apply to its ending
Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.
Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 127
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1719 – 1872, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1794, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q18129046 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.