Nasir-ud-din Haider died without any children and Ghazi-ud- din Haider's queen 'Padshah Begum' put forward Munna Jan, as a claimant to the throne though both Ghazi-ud- din Haider and Nasir-ud-din Haider had already refused to acknowledge him as belonging to the royal family.Even then also the begum forcibly enthroned Munna Jan at Lalbaradari. The British intervened and exploited the situation to their interest. They arrested both the Begum and Munna Jan and arranged for the accession of late Nawab Saadat Ali Khan's son, Nasir-ud-Daula, under title of 'Muhammad Ali Shah', who promised to pay a large sum of money to the British for this deal. Muhammad Ali Shah was 63 life years of age when he ascended to the throne. But he was an experienced man and had seen the glorious the days of his father. He started to economize and set right the administration. He started building the Chhota Imambara. Muhammad Ali Shah was deter-mined to make Lucknow into veritable Babylon and to leave for himself a memorial, representing him as greatest king of Avadh. He was a careful and sharp ruler and tries to set right many of the wrongs work of his predecessor. He started building in the neighborhood of the present-day clock tower; an edifice similar to Babylon's minaret or floating garden & named it Satkhanda, but it reached only its fifth story in 1842, when Muhammad Ali Shah died.