Jahan Shah (Mughal prince)

Mirza Khujista Akhtar Jahan Shah[2] (Persian: میرزا خجسته اختر جهان شاه) (4 October 1673 – 30 March 1712) was the fourth son of Emperor Bahadur Shah I.

Jahan Shah
جهان شاه
Shahzada of the Mughal Empire
Jahan Shah
Prince Jahan Shah, c.1704
Born4 October 1673
Kabul
Died30 March 1712(1712-03-30) (aged 38)
Lahore, Mughal Empire
Burial
Spouse
  • Zakiyat-un-nissa Begum
    (m. 1695)
  • Fakhr-un-nissa Begum
  • Nek Munzir Begum

Shad begum

Pharuk begum
Issue
8 daughters
Names
Khujista Akhtar Jahan Shah Mirza
HouseHouse of Babur
Dynasty Timurid dynasty
FatherBahadur Shah I [1]
MotherDilruba
ReligionIslam

Life

He was made Subahdar of Malwa (1707–1712) and raised to an Imperial Mansab of 30,000 Zat and 20,000 Sawar. After his father's death, he sided with his brother Mu'izz-ud-Din and defeated his other brother, Azim-ush-Shan in 1712. But Mu'izz-ud-Din disagreed with him over the distribution of the Imperial treasury and fought a battle against him in which he was supposed to be killed along with his eldest son Farkhunda Akhtar. His youngest son Muhammad Shah later ruled as emperor for 28 years.

Family

One of his wives was Zakiyat-un-nissa Begum, the daughter of Prince Muhammad Akbar. He had married her at Agra in 1695, at the same time his brother Rafi-ul-qadr married her sister Raziyat-un-nissa Begum. Another was Fakhr-un-nissa Begum, the descendant of Sarih Qazi, and the mother of Emperor Muhammad Shah. She died on 16 May 1733, aged about sixty years. Another of his wives was Nek Munzir Begum, who died at Delhi, on 27 April 1744.Another one of his sons were Muhammad Shah & Shahzada Farkhunda Akhtar[3]

Jahan Shah is also considered as the patriarch of Malik household residing in Pakistan through one of his sons. It is said his eldest son's survived and disappeared from the aftermath literatures.[4] Shahzada Farkhunda Akhtar actually survived & exiled from Mughal Royal Palace.[5]

References

Notes

  1. Muni Lal, Mini Mughals (1989), p. 29
  2. Faruqui, Munis D. (2012). The Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504–1719. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-02217-1.
  3. Irvine, William, The Later Mughals, Low Price Publications, p. 146, ISBN 81-7536-406-8
  4. "The Last Mughal by William Dalrymple: 9781400078332 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2023-10-05.
  5. Domain, Public (2023). Biography On Malik I: Recovering the lost history of Bahadur Shah I's lost lineage. Pakistan: Public Domain.


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