OUDE, a province of Hindostan Proper, subject to a nabob, whose dominions lie on both sides of the Ganges, occupying the flat country between that river and the northern mountains, as well as the principal part of that fertile tract, lying between the Ganges and Jumna, to within 40 miles of the city Delhi. Oude is about 250 miles in length, by 100 miles in breadth. It is flat, well watered, and fertile in wheat, barley, rice, sugar-canes, indigo, and poppies. The inhabitants are tall, strong, and warlike. Since 1765, a British force has been stationed in the nabob's territories, and paid by him. But from the disorderly state of the nabob's government and finances, it was thought proper, in 1801, to put a great part of the country under the immediate government of the Company, and to relieve the nabob from all pecuniary claims. The gross revenue of the districts ceded, amounted to 13,523,474 Sicca rupees. Oude is also the name of a large town in this province. Lucknow is the capital.