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Shah Alam II (Persian pronunciation: [ʃɑːh ʔɑː.ˈlam]; 25 June 1728 – 19 November 1806), also known by his birth name Ali Gohar, or Ali Gauhar, was the seventeenth Mughal emperor and the son of Alamgir II. [16] Shah Alam II became the emperor of a crumbling Mughal Empire.
The Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II (1759–1806) made futile attempts to reverse the Mughal decline. Delhi was sacked by the Afghans, and when the Third Battle of Panipat was fought between the Maratha Empire and the Afghans (led by Ahmad Shah Durrani ) in 1761, in which the Afghans were victorious, the emperor had ignominiously taken temporary ...
The Mughal emperors Shah Jahan and Akbar Shah II called themselves "Sahib-e Qiran-i Sani - (Arabic: Ṣāḥibi Qirāni Thānī/ Ath-Thānī - صَاحِبِ قِرَانِ ثَانِي\ ٱلْثَانِي)", which means "The Second Lord of Auspicious Conjunction", where "sani" is the adopted Arabic word for the cardinal "(the) second/ next ...
The company would continue to issue coins in the name of the Mughal emperors until 1835. [14] In 1857, during the Indian rebellion, Bahadur Shah II was crowned the emperor of India and coins were struck in his name. These would be the last Mughal coins to be issued, as he would be deposed and imprisoned, thus ending the reign of the Mughal empire.
2 Mughal emperors. Toggle the table of contents. Timurid family tree. ... Shah Alam II (1728 –1806) 14. Ahmad Shah Bahadur (1725 –1775) 19. Akbar Shah II (1760 ...
Shahzada Mirza Jawan Bakht Bahadur (Persian, Urdu: شہزادہ مرزا جوان بخت بہادر, alternative spelling Mirza Javan Bakht, Mirza Jawan Bakht also known as Mirza Jahandar Shah, 1749 - 31 May 1788 A.D., 25th Shaban 1202 A.H.,) was a Mughal prince [2] and the eldest son of Emperor Shah Alam II and the grandson of Emperor Alamgir II.
He became a courtier of Mughal emperor Shah Alam II (1740 – 1782). He married his sister into the family of the Shia Nawab of Awadh, which resulted in him gaining the title of Deputy Wazir of Awadh. He served during the Battle of Buxar, and he was the highest commander of the Mughal army from 1772 till his death in April 1782. [2] [3]
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.