The Night the Nawab was Poisoned Poisoned chutney, the firangis, and the death of a Nishapur sultan
It was 134 summers ago that the people of Metiabruz chased Langra Munshi with his entire family out of that locality of Calcutta. He vanished forever, never to be heard from again!
Even the omnipotent Kampani Bahadur could not prevent it.
What did the munshi do to so invoke the wrath of people? He was charged with murder of a Nishapur royal!
That was Wajid Ali Shah, ruler of Oudh, exiled to Metiabruz by the Kampani.
At 10 o’clock in the night of September 21, 1887, the king died soon after consuming chutney, a hakimi dawa or medicine, given him by Munsarim ud Daula, the chief wazir looking after the administration of Metiabruz’s Royal Palace.