:Draft:Mirza Yusuf Ali

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{{Short description|influential Awadhi courtier}}

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{{Infobox royalty

| name = Joseph Short/Yusuf Ali

| image =

| succession = Mirza of Awadh

| reign = about 1817 – 26 February 1870

| spouse = Jane Huggins and six others

| royal house = Nishapuri (through sister’s marriage)

| dynasty = Awadh (through sister’s marriage)

| mother = Mary Minas

| sibling = Mary Angela Short

| birth_name = Joseph Short

| birth_date = 1813

| birth_place =

| death_date = 26 February 1870

| death_place = Lucknow, Awadh

| date of burial =

| place of burial = St Joseph’s Cathedral, Lucknow

| religion = Shia Islam, Roman Catholicism

}}

Joseph Short, also known as Mirza Yusuf Ali, was an Awadhi mirza, wasikadar, and courtier. He was the younger brother of Sultan Mariam Begum Sahiba, also known as Mary Short, who was the favourite wife of Ghazi-ud-Din Haidar Shah. Short, following the marriage of his elder sister to the Nawab/King in either 1817 or 1822, was raised for the remainder of his childhood in the Farhat Baksh Kothi palace. During the Indian Rebellion, he was almost executed by Begum Hazrat Mahal, but his life was saved by an intervening member of the public stating his royal status. He was, before this, in the Lucknow Residency but left before its capture by mutineer forces. After the annexation of Oudh, whilst he lost any influence he had beforehand (which he mostly lost in 1827 upon the death of the first King, his brother-in-law), his status remained due to the recognition of princely families in India, which were de-recognised over a century after his death with the 1971 constitutional amendments.