Kaukab Quder Sajjad Ali Meerza (also Dr M Kaukab) was an Indian scholar of the Urdu language[1]

A specialist in the literature of Awadh State during the reign of its last Nawab, Wajid Ali Shah (1822-1887), Meerza taught Urdu at Aligarh Muslim University, retiring in 1993.[1] The Indian filmmaker, Satyajit Ray consulted with Meerza over many months during the writing of the screenplay for his 1977 award-winning film Shatranj ke Khilari (The Chess Players), which was set in Awadh in the period immediately preceding the Indian rebellion of 1857.[2]

Meerza was an enthusiast of snooker; he refereed many tournaments and was the founder-secretary of the Billiards and Snooker Federation of India.[1]

The last pensioner in the Awadh Pension Book of 1897 established by the British Raj and honoured by the Government of India after 1947, and the only surviving great-grandson of Wajid Ali Shah, Meerza died of complications from Covid-19 at age 87 in Kolkata on 14 September 2020.[2][1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Chaudhuri, Moumita (10 October 2020), "Jab chhor chale ... Nakhlau nagari: A portraiture of the recently departed Kaukab Quder, a man who lived his heritage, loved it, and never tried to ride it", The Telegraph, Kolkata, retrieved 7 September 2021
  2. ^ a b Banka, Neha (4 January 2020), "The real Prince of Awadh", Indian Express, retrieved 7 September 2021

See also

Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaukab_Quder_Meerza
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