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These small pouches are made of edible leaves wrapped round chopped nuts from the piper betel tree, lime and spices and were offered to mark the end of ceremonial audiences.\r\nThe casket was said to have belonged to Wajid 'Ali Shah, the last ruler of the kingdom of Oudh who was deposed by the British in 1856 and exiled to Calcutta when his territories were annexed. 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