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A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II

CHAPTER VI
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Her sister, Ashrof--_alias_ Shurf-on Nissa--resided in the same house with her mother and Buksh Allee.

Mokuddera Ouleea had from the time she became estranged from her husband, the King, led a very profligate life, and she continued to do the same in her widowhood.
On the 14th of September 1839, the mother died; and the sister, Shurf-on Nissa, supplied her place, as the wife or concubine of Buksh Allee.
Mokuddera Ouleea became pregnant, and on the 9th of November 1840, she was taken very ill from some violent attempt to produce abortion.
She continued insensible and speechless till the evening of the 12th of that month, when she expired.

The house which Buksh Allee occupied at that time is within the Residency compound, and had been purchased by Mr.John Culloden, the father of Mrs.Walters, from Mr.George Prendergast on the 22nd of February 1802.

Mr.Prendergast purchased the house from Mr.S.M.Taylor, an English merchant at Lucknow, who obtained it from the Nawab Assuf-od Dowlah, as a residence.

The Nawab afterwards, on the 5th of January 1797, gave him, through the Resident, Mr.J.Lumsden, permission to sell it to Mr.Prendergast.
The remains of Mokuddera Ouleea were interred within the compound of that house, near those of her mother, though the King, Mahommed Allee Shah, wished to have them buried by the side of those of her husband, the late King.


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