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A bus with 25 students wheeled into the Mahmudabad fort on Friday morning after a 15-hour journey from Ashoka University in Gurugram, Haryana.

After a prolonged legal battle lasting 13 years, the claim of Mohammad Amir Mohammad Khan (better known as raja of mahmudabad) over 422 hectare of land spread across three districts — Sitapur, Barabanki and Lakhimpur Kheri — was rejected by the Lucknow revenue court of ADM, administration, Amarpal Singh.

An inter-religious peace programme scheduled at the Mahmudabad fort on Friday was cancelled at the last minute after the administration refused permission citing fears of tension in the area. Acharya Pramod Krishnam, who had to deliver a talk at the programme, was not allowed to head towards Mahmudabad from a hotel in Lucknow.

As Rajya Sabha passed the Enemy Property (Amendment and Validation) Bill, 2016 making retrospective amends to the Enemy Property (EP) Act of 1968, the erstwhile raja of mahmudabad said, "It only shows the dictatorial, fascist and arbitrary attitude of the Central government."

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked a retired SC judge to conduct a fresh survey of tenancy in raja of mahmudabad's properties in Lucknow to identify those which existed prior to 1965, when the government took them over as enemy property.

Tenants of Raja Mahmudabad’s properties have reacted with caution to the news of the amended enemy property bill being rejected by the standing committee of parliament.

Home minister Rajnath Singh said the purpose of the bill was to clarify the rules that inheritance law would not apply to enemy property a question which first arose in 2010. The government had passed an ordinance to enforce the law.

00 Years On, Sangat Temples On Land Given Away By Raja Mahmudabad’s Ancestors Still Stand Tall But Not Strong

Mohammad Amir Mohammad Khan has stated that his late father was never given any property or compensation of any kind in Pakistan.

Mohammad Amir Mohammad Khan was a ‘raja’, an astrophysicist, an erudite speaker and host to many. He also fought a four-decade-long battle to try reclaim to his family’s property

Ali Khan Mahmudabad, a leading academic at Ashoka University, was arrested over a social media post criticizing the BJP amid praise for Operation Sindoor. Known for teaching political and intellectual history, he is also a historian, writer, and translator with a global academic background. His arrest has sparked widespread debate on academic freedom and free speech.

Among the many inspirations behind setting up of LU was one more beautiful than the others.

The ordinance to amend the Enemy Property (EP) Act of 1968, signed by President Pranab Mukherjee earlier on January 7, was tabled in Parliament on Tuesday.

The Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court on Monday directed district magistrate of Lucknow not to take possession of surplus land of Mohammad Amir Mohammad Khan alias Raja Mahmudabad till the appeal filed by him before the commissioner against the order of prescribed authority is finally decided.

Mahmudabad’s Legacy Comes Alive with Heritage Cars and Cuisine in Delhi

The Kothi inside Quila Mahmudabad has been selected for inclusion in the World Monuments Watch 2010 - an initiative of the World Monument Foundation (WMF) that calls international attention to preserve heritage sites around the world that are threatened by neglect, vandalism, conflict and disaster.

If those who left India for Pakistan after 1947 and during the Indo-Pak wars of 1965 and 1971 were dubbed "enemy subjects", an ordinance signed by President Pranab Mukherjee last week now decrees that even their heirs cannot inherit property they owned, even if they are Indian citizens.

More than 100 years after Amir-ud-Daula Saeed-ul-Mulk -- after whom the prestigious Amir-ud-Daulah library is named -- died, his great-grandson Mohammad Amir Mohammad Khan Aka Raja Mahmudabad is all set to raise a storm.

Walking past a sweets shop owned by a Hindu placed right next to an Avadhi food outlet may be nothing special for natives but for this group of Japanese students and teachers from University of Tokyo, it was the symbol of Lucknow's famous communal harmony .

If you often presume people's sect or religion by observing the things they do, a visit to Mahmudabad on Friday would have left you very confused. A saffron-clad sadhu paying respects at the shrine of Hazrat-e-Abbas; a group of Shias performing their rituals inside a Sunni mosque; 'marsiyas' remembering the martyrs of Karbala being recited in classical ragas; women applying, along with vermillion, oil from lamps lighting up imambaras--It was an image of intermingling India in all its vividness.