a province of Hindoostan 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, known by the name of Doobab, to within 40 miles of the city Delhi. Oude and its dependencies are computed at about 365 miles long from east to west, and 180 broad. A brigade of the Bengal army is constantly stationed on the western frontier, answering the double purpose of covering both Oude and Bengal; in consideration of which the nabob pays an annual subsidy of 420,000l. sterling. The capital of the province is Lucknow. Oude is also the name of a city in the above province, said to have been the principal city of Hindoostan about 1200 years before the Christian era.