Bahadur Shah I
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Bahadur Shah I or Shah Alam I, was the eighth Mughal emperor from 1707 to 1712. He was the second son of the sixth Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, who he conspired to overthrow in his youth. He was also the
Bahadur Shah I c. 1691
Prince Mu'azzam in his youth
Emperor Aurangzeb Receives Prince Mu'azzam. Chester Beatty Library
Silver Rupee of Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah I, struck in Burhanpur Mint.
Jahandar Shah
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Jahandar Shah was the ninth Mughal emperor briefly from 1712 to 1713.
Bahadur Shah I
…towards Talab-i-Mir Jumla, on the outskirts of Hyderabad, with "three hundred camels, [and] twenty thousand rockets" for war with Kam Baksh. His son Jahandar Shah, was made the commander of the advance guard, but later replaced Khan Zaman. Bahadur Shah reached Hyderabad on 12 January 1709, and prepared his troops…
Portrait of Jahandar Shah, c. 1712, currently held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England
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Mughal Army commander Abdus Samad Khan Bahadur being received by Jahandar Shah