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A '''Nawab''' was originally the provincial governor or viceroy of a province or region of the ]. The term is ] derived from the ] 'naib', meaning deputy. In some areas, especially ], the term was pronounced Nabob which appears to be derived from ] or ] pronunciation. (The last variation has entered the English language. See below.) Most of the ] rulers of the subcontinent had accepted the authority of the Mughals. Hence the term Nawab is generally understood to mean any Muslim ruler in the subcontinent. Under British rule, Nawabs ruled the ] of ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] (]), ], ], ], and ]. Other former rulers bearing the title, such as the Nabobs of ], had been dispossessed by the British or others by the time the Mughal dynasty finally ended in ].
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'''Nawab'''{{efn|], ], ], ], ] {{small|(])}}, ]: {{nq|نواب}}<br> {{langx|ar|نواب}}<br> {{langx|bn|নবাব/নওয়াব}}<br> {{langx|hi|नवाब}}<br> ] {{small|(])}}: ਨਵਾਬ}}{{efn|"also spelled Nawaab, Navaab, Navab, Nowab, Nabob, Nawaabshah, Nawabshah or Nobab}} is a ] indicating a ruler, often of a South Asian state, in many ways comparable to the western title of ]. The relationship of a Nawab to the Emperor of India has been compared to that of the ] to the ].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sir Robert |first1= Lethbridge |title=The Golden Handbook of India |date=1893 |page= x}}</ref> In earlier times the title was ratified and bestowed by the reigning ] to semi-autonomous ] rulers of subdivisions or ] in the ] loyal to the ], for example the ].
Nawab is also the title of senior ] nobles in ] and ] State. The female equivalent is Begum; the crown prince title is Nawabzada or Wali Ehed.


"Nawab" usually refers to males and literally means ''Viceroy''; the female equivalent is "]" or "''Nawab Begum''". The primary duty of a Nawab was to uphold the sovereignty of the Mughal emperor along with the administration of a certain province.
Most of the Nawabs were males, although the Begums of ] were an exception. Before the incorporation of ] into the ], Nawabs ruled the kingdoms of ], ], ] and ].


The title of "nawabi" was also awarded as a personal distinction by the paramount power, similar to a ], to persons and families who ruled a princely state for various services to the Government of ]. In some cases, the titles were also accompanied by ] grants, either in cash revenues and allowances or land-holdings. During the ], some of the chiefs, or ]s, of large or important tribes were also given the title, in addition to traditional titles already held by virtue of chieftainship.
A few rulers who were tributary to the Mughals took other titles; the first Nizam of Hyderabad was given the alternative title, Nizam ul Mulk, usually translated as Governor of the Kingdom.


The term ''"]"'' was originally used for the '']'' (provincial governor) or viceroy of a '']'' (province) or regions of the Mughal Empire.
In colloquial usage in ], the term "nabob" is sometimes used to refer to a ] leader of high ] and ], or a ]. It can also be used metaphorically for people who have a grandiose style or manner of speech, as in ]'s famous dismissal of the press as "''nattering nabobs of negativism''".


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==Nawabs (families, individuals and dynasties)==
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Nawab was a ] term, used in ], ], ], ] and many other North-Indian languages, borrowed via ] from the ] honorific plural of ''naib'', or "deputy." In some areas, especially ], the term is pronounced ''nobab''. This later variation has also entered English and other foreign languages as ].
==See also==

] of a ] nawab]]

The ] was the head of the Mughal provincial administration. He was assisted by the provincial ''Diwan'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', ''Sadr'', ''Waqa-i-Navis'', ''Qanungo'' and '']''. As the ] began to dissolve in the early 18th century, many ''subahs'' became effectively independent.<ref name="Whitworth1885">{{cite book |last=Whitworth |first=George Clifford |title=An Anglo-Indian Dictionary: A Glossary of Indian Terms Used in English, and of Such English Or Other Non-Indian Terms as Have Obtained Special Meanings in India |publisher=K. Paul, Trench |year=1885 |pages=301– |chapter=Subah |access-date=13 July 2020 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7tAOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA301 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240209112831/https://books.google.com/books?id=7tAOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA301#v=onepage&q&f=false |archive-date=9 February 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref> The term ''nawaab'' is often used to refer to any Muslim ruler in north or ] while the term '']'' is preferred for a senior official; it literally means "governor of region". The ] had several nawabs under him: Nawabs of Cuddapah, Sira, Rajahmundry, Kurnool, Chicacole, et al. ''Nizam'' was his personal title, awarded by the Mughal Government and based on the term ''nazim'' as meaning "senior officer". ''Nazim'' is still used for a district collector in many parts of India. The term ''nawab'' is still technically imprecise, as the title was also awarded to Hindus and ]s, as well, and large ]s and not necessarily to all Muslim rulers. With the decline of that empire, the title, and the powers that went with it, became hereditary in the ruling families in the various provinces.

Under later British rule, nawabs continued to rule various ] of ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] (the main city of Deccan), ], Mamdot, ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ]. Other former rulers bearing the title, such as the nawabs of Bengal and ], had been deprived by the British or others by the time the Mughal dynasty finally ended in 1857.
Some princes became nawab by promotion. For example, the ruler of ] was "diwan" until 1910, then "nawab sahib". Other nawabs were promoted are restyled to another princely style, or to and back, such as in ] a single rawat (rajah) went by nawab.

The style for a nawab's wife is '']''. Most of the nawab dynasties were male ]s, although several ruling ] were a notable exception.

Before the incorporation of the ] into the ], nawabs ruled the kingdoms of Awadh (or Oudh, encouraged by the British to shed the Mughal suzerainty and assume the imperial style of Badshah), Bengal, ] and Bhopal.

==Ruling nawab families==
]'', a painting depicting Yusef Khan on his way to an encampment for the ] held at ] in 1859]]

===Nawabi dynasties acceding to India===
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* Nawab of Akbarpur - Asmatara Farida Begum
* Nawab ], the 7th ]
* Nawab of Ashwath
* Nawab Babi of ]
* ], previously ]
* Nawab of ]
* Nawab of Basai, Nawab Khwaja Muhammad Khan
* Nawab of ] styled Mirza of Berar (title held by the heir to the ])
* Nawab of ]
* ] (female rulers were known as Nawab Begum)
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* the former ], restyled Princes of Arcot
* Nawab of Dujana
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* Nawab of ]
* Nawab Sahib of ]
* Nawab of ]
* Nawab of ]
* Nawab Sahib of ] (''Diwan'' until 1910)
*Nawab of Awadh
* Nawab of ]
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* Nawab of ]
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===Nawabi dynasties in India abolished before independence===
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* Nawab of Farukhnagar
* Nawab of Jhajjar
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* Nawab of Mohna

===Nawabi dynasties acceding to Pakistan===
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===Nawabi dynasties acceding to Bangladesh ===
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===Former dynasties which became political pensioners===
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* Nawab of Marauli
* Nawab of Patna
* Nawab of Surat
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=== Rohilla Confederation<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hamilton |first1=Charles |title=An Historical Relation of the origin, progress and final dissolution of the Rohilla Afghans in the northern provinces of Hindostan |pages=90–92|language=en}}</ref>===

All of these states were at some point under the authority of the Nawab of Rohilkhand, later made the Nawab of Rampur. Most of these states were annexed at the close of the ].
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== Miscellaneous nawabs ==

=== Personal nawabs ===
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The title ''nawab'' was also awarded as a personal distinction by the paramount power, similarly to a ], to persons and families who never ruled a princely state. For the Muslim elite various Mughal-type titles were introduced, including nawab. Among the noted British creations of this type were Nawab ] (1858–1940), Nawab ] (1813–1896), ] (1828–1893), Nawab ] (1834–1904), Nawab ] (1863–1929), ] (1862–1922), ] (1848–1923), ], M.A, Madras, B.A., B.C.L., Barr-At-Law (1890–1974). There also were the Nawabs of Dhanbari, Nawabs of Ratanpur, Nawabs of ] and such others.

===Nawab as a court rank===
], "Saadat Ali Khan I" of ].]]

''Nawab'' was also the rank title—again not an office—of a much lower class of ] nobles—in fact retainers—at the court of the ] and ] State, ranking only above ] and Khan, but under (in ascending order) ], ], ], ] and ]; the equivalent for Hindu courtiers was ].

==Related titles==
===Nawabzada===
], ] 1757]]

This style, adding the Persian suffix ''-zada'' which means son (or other male descendants; see other cases in prince), etymologically fits a nawab’s sons, but in actual practice various dynasties established other customs.

For example, in ] only the nawbab's ] used ''nawabzada'' before his personal name, then ''Khan Abassi'', finally ''Wali Ahad Bahadur'' (an enhancement of Wali Ehed), while the other sons of the ruling nawab used the style ] before the personal name and only Khan Abassi behind. "Nawabzadi" implies daughters of the reigning nawbab.

Elsewhere, there were rulers who were not styled nawbab yet awarded a title nawabzada to others.

===Naib (Ottoman, Iranian, Arabic title)===
{{See also|Dar Niaba}}

The word ''naib'' ({{langx|ar|نائب}}) has been historically used to refer to any ] leader, ], or ] in some parts of the ], successive early modern ] kingdoms (], etc.), and in the eastern ] (e.g. during ]). In the ], the Naib was the Sultan's ] to the foreign legations in ] between 1848 and 1923, when the creation of the ] led to its replacement by the office of the ].

Today, the word is used to refer to directly elected legislators in lower houses of parliament in many Arabic-speaking areas to contrast them against officers of upper houses (or ]). The term ]<!--intentional link to DAB page--> ({{langx|ar|مجلس النواب}}, literally ''council of deputies'') has been adopted as the name of several legislative lower houses and unicameral legislatures.

"Naib" has also been used in the ] (especially of the ]) to translate the component of "deputy" or "vice" in certain titles (e.g "Vice President" - ''Naib Presiden'')<ref>{{Cite web|title=vice - Kamus Bahasa Inggeris|url=http://prpm.dbp.gov.my/Cari1?keyword=vice&d=139128&#LIHATSINI|website=Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu|publisher=]|access-date=25 May 2020|archive-date=25 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025163245/https://prpm.dbp.gov.my/Cari1?keyword=vice&d=139128&#LIHATSINI|url-status=live}}</ref> aside from ''timbalan'' and ''wakil'' (latter predominant in the ]).

=="Nabob", derived colloquial term==
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{{Other uses|Nabob (disambiguation)}}
In colloquial usage in English (since 1612),<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203060951/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nabob?show=0&t=1284641928 |date=3 December 2016 }}, Merriam-Webster.com. Retrieved 16 September 2010.</ref> adopted in other Western languages, the ] "nabob" refers to commoners: a merchant-leader of high social status and wealth. "Nabob" derives from the ] pronunciation of "nawab": {{langx|bn|নবাব}} ''nôbab''.

During the 18th century in particular, it was widely used as a disparaging term for British merchants or administrators who, having made a fortune in India, returned to Britain and aspired to be recognised as having the higher social status that their new wealth would enable them to maintain. ] in ] is probably the best known example in fiction.

From this specific usage it came to be sometimes used for ostentatiously rich businesspeople in general.

"Nabob" can also be used metaphorically for people who have a grandiose sense of their own importance, as in the famous alliterative dismissal of the news media as "''nattering nabobs of negativism''" in a speech that was delivered by ]'s vice president ] and written by ].<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170210050026/http://politicaldictionary.com/words/nattering-nabobs-of-negativism/ |date=10 February 2017 }}, PoliticalDictionary.com. Retrieved 7 April 2015.</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery widths="125" heights="100" caption="Some Nawabs of India">
File:Major-General the Hon. Arthur Wellesley being received in durbar at the Chepauk Palace Madras by Azim al-Daula Nawab of the Carnatic 18th February 1805.jpg|]
File:Oziashumphrey.jpg|Hyder Beg Khan of ]
File:CheetahHunt.jpg|Nawabs hunting a ] with their ]
File:Javanbakht.jpg|] (left) and ] and ] ] (right)
File:Cheetahs nawab oudh1844.jpg|Nawabs and ]
File:Nawab of Kalabagh Malik Amir Mohammad khan.jpeg|] The ] and chief of the Awan tribe
File:A Nawab of Awadh, Lucknow, India. 19th century.jpg|] and a ] nawab
File:Stinger Lawrence and Nawab Wallajah.JPG|] the ]
File:Nawab shuja ud daulah.jpg|] the ]
File:Shujah ud-Daulah and his sons shoberl.jpg|] and his sons and relative
File:The Third battle of Panipat 13 January 1761.jpg|Nawabs in battle during the ]
File:Death of the Nabob of the Carnatic by Paul Philippoteaux.jpg|] in battle
File:A Nawab of Mughal dynasty, India, 17th-18th century.jpg|A nawab, during the reign of the ] ]
File:Shuja-ud-Din Muhammad Khan.jpg|] the ]
File:Muhammad Anwaruddin.jpg|] the ]
File:Nawab of Bengal.jpg|]
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==Indian states formerly ruled by Nawabs==
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==See also==
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== Notes ==
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==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite book |last=Akbar |first=M Ali |year=2012 |chapter=Dhaka Nawab Estate |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Dhaka_Nawab_Estate |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=]}}
* {{cite book |last=Islam |first=Sirajul |year=2012 |chapter=Nawab |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Nawab |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=]}}
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*{{EB1911|wstitle=Nawab|volume=19|page=317}}


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Mughal title given to Muslim rulers of princely states in the Indian subcontinent This article is about the honorific title. For the nawab butterfly, see Polyura. "Naib" redirects here. For other uses, see Naib (disambiguation).

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Nawab 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. In earlier times the title was ratified and bestowed by the reigning Mughal emperor to semi-autonomous Muslim rulers of subdivisions or princely states in the Indian subcontinent loyal to the Mughal Empire, for example the Nawabs of Bengal.

"Nawab" usually refers to males and literally means Viceroy; the female equivalent is "Begum" or "Nawab Begum". The primary duty of a Nawab was to uphold the sovereignty of the Mughal emperor along with the administration of a certain province.

The title of "nawabi" was also awarded as a personal distinction by the paramount power, similar to a British peerage, to persons and families who ruled a princely state for various services to the Government of India. In some cases, the titles were also accompanied by jagir grants, either in cash revenues and allowances or land-holdings. During the British Raj, some of the chiefs, or sardars, of large or important tribes were also given the title, in addition to traditional titles already held by virtue of chieftainship.

The term "Zamindari" was originally used for the subahdar (provincial governor) or viceroy of a subah (province) or regions of the Mughal Empire.

History

Robert Clive, meeting with Mir Jafar after the Battle of Plassey, by Francis Hayman
General Nawab Sir Sadeq Mohammad Khan V, the last ruling Nawab of Bahawalpur

Nawab was a Hindustani term, used in Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Pashto and many other North-Indian languages, borrowed via Persian from the Arabic honorific plural of naib, or "deputy." In some areas, especially Bengal, the term is pronounced nobab. This later variation has also entered English and other foreign languages as nabob.

The winter diwan of a Mughal nawab

The Subahdar was the head of the Mughal provincial administration. He was assisted by the provincial Diwan, Bakhshi, Faujdar, Kotwal, Qazi, Sadr, Waqa-i-Navis, Qanungo and Patwari. As the Mughal empire began to dissolve in the early 18th century, many subahs became effectively independent. The term nawaab is often used to refer to any Muslim ruler in north or south India while the term nizam is preferred for a senior official; it literally means "governor of region". The Nizam of Hyderabad had several nawabs under him: Nawabs of Cuddapah, Sira, Rajahmundry, Kurnool, Chicacole, et al. Nizam was his personal title, awarded by the Mughal Government and based on the term nazim as meaning "senior officer". Nazim is still used for a district collector in many parts of India. The term nawab is still technically imprecise, as the title was also awarded to Hindus and Sikhs, as well, and large zamindars and not necessarily to all Muslim rulers. With the decline of that empire, the title, and the powers that went with it, became hereditary in the ruling families in the various provinces.

Under later British rule, nawabs continued to rule various princely states of Amb, Bahawalpur, Balasinor, Baoni, Banganapalle, Bhopal, Cambay, Jaora, Junagadh, Kurnool (the main city of Deccan), Kurwai, Mamdot, Multan, Palanpur, Pataudi, Radhanpur, Rampur, Malerkotla, Sachin, and Tonk. Other former rulers bearing the title, such as the nawabs of Bengal and Awadh, had been deprived by the British or others by the time the Mughal dynasty finally ended in 1857.

Some princes became nawab by promotion. For example, the ruler of Palanpur was "diwan" until 1910, then "nawab sahib". Other nawabs were promoted are restyled to another princely style, or to and back, such as in Rajgarh a single rawat (rajah) went by nawab.

The style for a nawab's wife is begum. Most of the nawab dynasties were male primogenitures, although several ruling Begums of Bhopal were a notable exception.

Before the incorporation of the Subcontinent into the British Empire, nawabs ruled the kingdoms of Awadh (or Oudh, encouraged by the British to shed the Mughal suzerainty and assume the imperial style of Badshah), Bengal, Arcot and Bhopal.

Ruling nawab families

The Procession of Yusef Ali Khan, a painting depicting Yusef Khan on his way to an encampment for the durbar held at Fatehgarh in 1859

Nawabi dynasties acceding to India

Nawabi dynasties in India abolished before independence

Nawabi dynasties acceding to Pakistan

Nawabi dynasties acceding to Bangladesh

Former dynasties which became political pensioners

also imperial Wazir of all Mughal India, both hereditary

Rohilla Confederation

All of these states were at some point under the authority of the Nawab of Rohilkhand, later made the Nawab of Rampur. Most of these states were annexed at the close of the First Rohilla War.

Miscellaneous nawabs

Personal nawabs

The title nawab was also awarded as a personal distinction by the paramount power, similarly to a British peerage, to persons and families who never ruled a princely state. For the Muslim elite various Mughal-type titles were introduced, including nawab. Among the noted British creations of this type were Nawab Hashim Ali Khan (1858–1940), Nawab Khwaja Abdul Ghani (1813–1896), Nawab Abdul Latif (1828–1893), Nawab Faizunnesa Choudhurani (1834–1904), Nawab Ali Chowdhury (1863–1929), Nawaab Syed Shamsul Huda (1862–1922), Nawab Sirajul Islam (1848–1923), Nawab Alam yar jung Bahadur, M.A, Madras, B.A., B.C.L., Barr-At-Law (1890–1974). There also were the Nawabs of Dhanbari, Nawabs of Ratanpur, Nawabs of Baroda and such others.

Nawab as a court rank

A picture of whom is believed to be the first ever "Nawab" of Mughal Empire, "Saadat Ali Khan I" of Awadh.

Nawab was also the rank title—again not an office—of a much lower class of Muslim nobles—in fact retainers—at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad and Berar State, ranking only above Khan Bahadur and Khan, but under (in ascending order) Jang, Daula, Mulk, Umara and Jah; the equivalent for Hindu courtiers was Raja Bahadur.

Related titles

Nawabzada

The Nawab of Bengal, Mir Qasim 1757

This style, adding the Persian suffix -zada which means son (or other male descendants; see other cases in prince), etymologically fits a nawab’s sons, but in actual practice various dynasties established other customs.

For example, in Bahawalpur only the nawbab's heir apparent used nawabzada before his personal name, then Khan Abassi, finally Wali Ahad Bahadur (an enhancement of Wali Ehed), while the other sons of the ruling nawab used the style sahibzada before the personal name and only Khan Abassi behind. "Nawabzadi" implies daughters of the reigning nawbab.

Elsewhere, there were rulers who were not styled nawbab yet awarded a title nawabzada to others.

Naib (Ottoman, Iranian, Arabic title)

See also: Dar Niaba

The word naib (Arabic: نائب) has been historically used to refer to any suzerain leader, feudatory, or regent in some parts of the Ottoman Empire, successive early modern Persianate kingdoms (Safavids, etc.), and in the eastern Caucasus (e.g. during Caucasian Imamate). In the Sultanate of Morocco, the Naib was the Sultan's emissary to the foreign legations in Tangier between 1848 and 1923, when the creation of the Tangier International Zone led to its replacement by the office of the Mendoub.

Today, the word is used to refer to directly elected legislators in lower houses of parliament in many Arabic-speaking areas to contrast them against officers of upper houses (or Shura). The term Majlis al-Nuwwab (Arabic: مجلس النواب, literally council of deputies) has been adopted as the name of several legislative lower houses and unicameral legislatures.

"Naib" has also been used in the Malay language (especially of the Malaysian variant) to translate the component of "deputy" or "vice" in certain titles (e.g "Vice President" - Naib Presiden) aside from timbalan and wakil (latter predominant in the Indonesian variant).

"Nabob", derived colloquial term

For other uses, see Nabob (disambiguation).

In colloquial usage in English (since 1612), adopted in other Western languages, the transliteration "nabob" refers to commoners: a merchant-leader of high social status and wealth. "Nabob" derives from the Bengali pronunciation of "nawab": Bengali: নবাব nôbab.

During the 18th century in particular, it was widely used as a disparaging term for British merchants or administrators who, having made a fortune in India, returned to Britain and aspired to be recognised as having the higher social status that their new wealth would enable them to maintain. Jos Sedley in Thackeray's Vanity Fair is probably the best known example in fiction.

From this specific usage it came to be sometimes used for ostentatiously rich businesspeople in general.

"Nabob" can also be used metaphorically for people who have a grandiose sense of their own importance, as in the famous alliterative dismissal of the news media as "nattering nabobs of negativism" in a speech that was delivered by Nixon's vice president Spiro Agnew and written by William Safire.

Gallery

Indian states formerly ruled by Nawabs

See also

Notes

  1. Balochi, Pashto, Urdu, Persian, Punjabi (Shahmukhi), Sindhi: نواب
    Arabic: نواب
    Bengali: নবাব/নওয়াব
    Hindi: नवाब
    Punjabi (Gurmukhi): ਨਵਾਬ
  2. "also spelled Nawaab, Navaab, Navab, Nowab, Nabob, Nawaabshah, Nawabshah or Nobab

References

  1. Sir Robert, Lethbridge (1893). The Golden Handbook of India. p. x.
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