English to Pashto Meaning of nawab - نواب

Nawab :

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Definitions of nawab in English

Noun(1) a governor in India during the Mogul empire

Examples of nawab in English

(1) Bengal was absorbed into the Mughul Empire in the 16th century, and Dhaka, the seat of a nawab (the representative of the emperor), gained some importance as a provincial center.(2) Under effective British rule since 1757, the nawab dynasties of Bengal, Orissa, and Bihar were united into the single province and ruled from Calcutta.(3) For the first time in the history of Bangalore's star hotels, you can come and indulge like a nawab and forget that diet till tomorrow.(4) The nawab who ruled Junagarh cared more about his dogs than his subjects.(5) ‘My father was a nawab of Tonk while my mother was from a khandaani hakeem family,’ he says.(6) The next nawab , his nephew Azim-ud-Daula, had to give up much of his powers and territory and became the first titular Nawab of the Carnatic.(7) A Dacca barrister teased him for behaving more like a once-rich Muslim nawab wedded to a fanciful past and visions of lost glory than an educated, middle-class Hindu lawyer.(8) Governors of the Mughal empire also took advantage of growing feebleness - the nawabs of Bengal, Oudh and Hyderabad were soon to establish quasi-independent states which owed only nominal allegiance to Delhi.(9) The art form, once performed for nawabs and zamindars, gives way to modern music(10) He has published many papers on maharajas and nawabs of India.(11) Come evening and the nawabs and the well-heeled would climb atop the terraces of their sprawling ‘deodis’ and let loose their pigeons.(12) Lucknowi nawabs were great connoisseurs of food.(13) This right was bestowed on us by emperors, rajas and nawabs (local rulers and influentials in the undivided Indian subcontinent).(14) Ghazal singing, earlier an art form restricted to the nawabs and aristocrats, was bought to the people by Begum Akhtar and later popularised by Pankaj Udhas.(15) Equally, as a Governor-General above the political fray, he played a crucial role in persuading maharajahs and nawabs distrustful of the socialist Nehru to accept that they had no choice but to merge their domains into the Indian Union.(16) And their power-crazed heads obviously long to wear a crown, which is why they behave like old-style nawabs and potentates.

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