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Purported photograph of Zinat Mahal Begum, his consort Sons of Bahadur Shah Zafar. On the left is Jawan Bakht, and on the right is Mirza Shah Abbas. Bahadur Shah Zafar had four wives and numerous concubines. His wives were: [24] Begum Ashraf Mahal; Begum Akhtar Mahal; Begum Zeenat Mahal; Begum Taj Mahal; He had twenty two sons including: [25]
Mirza Mughal was the fifth son of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the 20th and last Mughal emperor. His mother, Sharif-ul-Mahal Sayyidini, came from an aristocratic Sayyid family that claimed descent from Muhammad. His mother was descended from Abdullah Shah Ghazi who was from the Hasanid line of the Ahl al-Bayt.
Mirza Jawan Bakht (1841 – 18 September 1884) was the son of Emperor Bahadur Shah II, also called Zafar, and Zinat Mahal. He was the fifteenth son of his father and the only son of his mother. His mother nursed the ambition of placing him on the Mughal throne.
Zeenat Mahal married Bahadur Shah II at Delhi on 19 November 1840 and had a son with him, Mirza Jawan Bakht.. She greatly influenced the emperor and, after the death of crown prince Mirza Dara Bakht, she began promoting her son Mirza Jawan Bakht as heir to the throne over the Emperor's remaining eldest son Mirza Fath-ul-Mulk Bahadur.
By 1857 a considerable part of former Mughal India was under the East India Company's control. After a crushing defeat in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 which he nominally led, the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, was deposed by the British East India Company and exiled in 1858 to Rangoon, Burma. [57] Portrait of Bahadur Shah Zafar
The Khooni Darwaza (Bloody Gate) is first found by name in history after three princes of the Mughal dynasty - Bahadur Shah Zafar's sons Mirza Mughal and Mirza Khizr Sultan and grandson Mirza Abu Bakht, were shot by a British officer, Major William Hodson, before the war of independence.
Mirza Shah Abbas Bahadur (1845 – 25 December 1910) was son of the last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar. [1] He was a younger brother of Prince Mirza Mughal and former Crown Princes Mirza Dara Bakht , Mirza Jawan Bakht , and Mirza Fath-ul-Mulk Bahadur .
His major achievement at this time was the capture [13] of the Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah II. His major discredit was the execution of three Mughal princes: Bahadur's sons Mirza Mughal and Mirza Khizr Sultan, and his grandson Mirza Abu Bakr. [14]