“No, no, potatoes have always been ours.”
When Nawab Wajid Ali Shah was ousted from Lucknow by the ambitions of Lord Dalhousie, governor general of British India, he had ruled just shy of nine years.Though he planned to continue on to London to plead his case with Queen Victoria, the last king of Oudh never made the trip due to a combination of a failed uprising in his home city by Begum Hazrat Mahal, who, as his second official wife, could be said to have been a warrior queen, and the outrage in England that the publicity of those events caused.
The nawab, though stripped of his lands, brought his traditional hospitality and lip-smacking, delicious specialties of his realm to Kolkata.I can see food as a priority in a move.When I came over for my stay in Kolkata on economy British Airways tickets, tucked into my suitcase were packets of goodies from home – some American candy, chocolate, energy bars. Granted, when the nawab made his Kolkata journey in a steamer, the General McLeod, in May 1856, he had a retinue of 600 cooks, servers, and bearers. As many as 6,000 shopkeepers, tailors, moneylenders, and paanwallahs from Lucknow followed their king, too.
Without a retinue...
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