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The Mughal war of succession (1707–1709) [1] [2] [3] or the Mughal Civil War [citation needed] was a period of political disorder and armed conflict over succession in the Mughal Empire following the death of the sixth Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in March 1707.
Historians have offered numerous accounts of the several factors involved in the rapid collapse of the Mughal Empire between 1707 and 1720, after a century of growth and prosperity. A succession of short-lived incompetent and weak rulers, and civil wars over the succession, created political instability at the centre.
Mughal war of succession may refer to: Mughal war of succession (1627–1628), after the death of emperor Nuruddin Salim Jahangir of the Mughal Empire; Mughal war of succession (1658–1659), after grave illness of emperor Shah Jahan of the Mughal Empire; Mughal war of succession (1707–1709), after the death of emperor Aurangzeb of the Mughal ...
The Mughal dynasty (Persian: دودمان مغل, romanized: Dudmân-e Mughal) or the House of Babur (Persian: خاندانِ آلِ بابُر, romanized: Khāndān-e-Āl-e-Bābur), was a branch of the Timurid dynasty founded by Babur that ruled the Mughal Empire from its inception in 1526 till the early eighteenth century, and then as ceremonial suzerains over much of the empire until 1857.
The Mughal war of succession of 1658–1659 was a war of succession fought between the four sons of Shah Jahan: Aurangzeb, Dara Shikoh, Murad Bakhsh, and Shah Shuja, in hopes of gaining the Mughal Throne. Prior to the death of Shah Jahan, each of his sons held governorships during their father's reign.
Seal of the Mughal Empire. Emperor of Hindustan sometimes also translated as Emperor of India, [Note 1] is the usual rendering in English of the imperial title used firstly by the Delhi Sultanate [1] and then their successors the Mughal Empire [2] [3] It signified their sovereignity over Northern India and later much of the Indian subcontinent.
Unlike previous Mughal wars of succession, the outcome of this war was engineered by a noble, Zulfiqar Khan. He built an alliance between Jahandar Shah, and his younger brothers Rafi-us-Shan and Jahan Shah , proposing to them that they could divide the empire between them upon victory (with Zulfiqar Khan serving as their common mir bakhshi ).
Akbar II (Persian pronunciation:; 22 April 1760 – 28 September 1837), also known as Akbar Shah II, was the nineteenth Mughal emperor from 1806 to 1837. He was the second son of Shah Alam II and the father of Bahadur Shah II, who would eventually succeed him and become the last Mughal emperor.