Bahadur Shah I

Shah Alam I
Bahadur Shah I
Padishah
Al-Sultan Al-Azam
Bahadur Shah I c. 1670
Emperor of Hindustan
Reign19 June 1707 – 27 February 1712
Coronation15 June 1707
PredecessorAzam Shāh
SuccessorJahāndār Shāh
BornMirza Muhammad Mu'azzam
(1643-10-14)14 October 1643
Shahi Qila, Burhanpur, Mughal Empire
Died27 February 1712(1712-02-27) (aged 68)
Lahore, Mughal Empire
Burial15 May 1712
Consort
(m. 1659; died 1701)
Wives
  • (m. 1660; d. 1692)
    [1]
  • Amrit Kanwar
    (m. 1671)
    [1]
  • Mihr Parwar[1]
  • Umat-ul-Habib[1]
  • Chattar Bai[1]
Issue
Names
Abul-Nasir Sayid Qutub-ud-din Mirza Muhammad Muazzam Shah Alam Bahadur Shah Badshah
Regnal name
Shah Alam I
Bahadur Shah I
Posthumous name
"Khuld Manzil" (lit.'Departed to Paradise')
HouseHouse of Babur
DynastyTimurid dynasty
FatherAlamgir I
MotherNawab Bai
ReligionIslam[a]
SealShah Alam I Bahadur Shah I's signature

Mirza Muhammad Mu'azzam (14 October 1643 – 27 February 1712), commonly known as Bahadur Shah I and 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 governor of the imperial provinces of Agra, Kabul and Lahore and had to face revolts of Rajputs and Sikhs.

After Aurangzeb's death, Muhammad Azam Shah, his third son by his chief consort declared himself successor, but was shortly defeated in one of the largest battles of India, the Battle of Jajau and overthrown by Bahadur Shah. During the reign of Bahadur Shah, the Rajput kingdoms of Jodhpur and Amber were annexed again after they had declared independence a few years prior.

Bahadur Shah also sparked an Islamic controversy in the khutba by inserting the declaration of Ali as wali. His reign was disturbed by several rebellions, the Sikhs under the leadership of Banda Singh Bahadur, Rajputs under Durgadas Rathore and a Mughal prince Kam Bakhsh but all of them were successfully quelled.

  1. ^ a b c d e Irvine, William (1991) [First published 1921]. Later Mughals. Atlantic Publishers & Distributors. p. 141. Archived from the original on 18 March 2023. Retrieved 15 December 2021.


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