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Muhammad 'Ali Khan, Nawab of the Carnatic, c.1774 (oil on canvas)

Muhammad 'Ali Khan, Nawab of the Carnatic, c.1774 (oil on canvas)
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Europe
India
Asia
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sword
sheathed
carnatic
girdle
ally
imperious
full
company
indian
british
portrait
male
east
length
ali
jah
subedar
khan
muhammad
wallajah
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Muhammad 'Ali Khan, Nawab of the Carnatic, c.1774 (oil on canvas)

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Willison, George (1741-97) / Scottish

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oil on canvas

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c. 1774 AD (C18th AD)

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Muhammad Ali Khan Walla Jah (1717 – 13 October 1795) was the Nawab of Arcot in India and an ally of the British East India Company. Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah was born to Anwaruddin Muhammed Khan, by his second wife, Fakhr un-nisa Begum Sahiba, was a niece of Sayyid Ali Khan Safavi ul-Mosawi of Persia, sometime Naib suba of Trichonopoly on 7 July 1723 at Delhi. Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah the Nawab of Arcot often referred to himself as the Subedar of the Carnatic in his letters and correspondence with the then Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II.

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