Jahan Shah (Mughal Emperor)

Jahan Shah

Padishah
Al-Sultan Al-Azam
Portrait by Ghulam Ali Khan
18th Mughal Emperor
Reign31 July – 11 October 1788[1]
PredecessorShah Alam II
SuccessorShah Alam II
BornMahmud Shah Bahadur
1749[citation needed]
Red Fort, Delhi, Mughal Empire
(now in India)[citation needed]
Died1790 (aged 40–41)
Shahjahanabad, Delhi, Mughal Empire[citation needed]
Burial
Issue
  • Nawab Najabat Afruz Banu Begum Sahiba
  • Nawab Muhammadi Begum Sahiba[citation needed]
Names
Mirza Bidar Bakht Mahmud Shah Bahadur Jahan Shah
Regnal name
Jahan Shah (Persian: جهان شاه )
HouseHouse of Babur
DynastyTimurid dynasty
FatherAhmad Shah[2]
ReligionSunni Islam (Hanafi)

Bidar Bakht Mahmud Shah Bahadur, also known by his regnal name Jahan Shah, was the eighteenth Mughal emperor for a brief period in 1788 after Shah Alam II was deposed by Ghulam Kadir, Mahmud Shah Bahadur was the son of a former Mughal Emperor, Ahmad Shah Bahadur.[2] He himself became emperor for a brief period in 1788 as a puppet of Ghulam Kadir,[3] after Shah Alam II had been deposed and blinded.[4] He was allegedly put to death in 1790 by order of Shah Alam II, supposedly for usurping his authority in 1788.[citation needed]

  1. ^ Royal Numismatic Society, The Numismatic Chronicle, (1926) p.415
  2. ^ a b Hasan, Iqtida (1995). Later Moghuls and Urdù literature. Ferozsons. p. 48. ISBN 9789690101204.
  3. ^ Mehta, Jaswant Lal (2005). Advanced Study in the History of Modern India 1707-1813. Sterling Publishers. p. 595. ISBN 9781932705546.
  4. ^ Tikkiwal, Harish Chandra (1974). Jaipur and the Later Mughals (1707-1803 A.D.): A Study in Political Relations. University of Rajasthan. p. 175. OCLC 825766812.