Jahandar Shâh

Jahandar Shah (1664 - 1713) was an emperor Moghol of March 1712 at February 1713. It is one of the four wire of Bahâdur Shâh which disputed the throne with dead of this last. After several months of engagements, it is Jahandar which left victorious.

An unable sovereign

Jahandar Shah was not a good administrator and he did not discharge his imperial duties. He had a taste pronounced for the lust, and that carried out its country towards another civil war.

During its reign, the empire was controlled in great majority not the empress Lal Kanwar and her family, which plundered the treasure and managed the country in a disastrous way.

Zulfiqar Khan, that which had led Jahandar Shah to the throne, was him also largely implied in the management of the empire.

The revolt of Muhammad Farrukhsiyar

Little time after the beginning of the reign of Jahandar, a new conflict of succession emerged in the Empire. Muhammad Farrukhsiyar, grandson of Bahâdur Shâh, car-proclaimed emperor and raised troops with the assistance of the Saiyid brothers. January 6th, 1713, it overcame Jahandar Shah with the battle field of Samugarhh. The Emperor and his wife escaped from Delhi by asking for the assistance of Zulfiqar Khan, but this last imprisoned them in order to obtain the favors of the new emperor.

Jahandar Shah was assassinated in his prison on February 11th, 1713 and was buried with the family members imperial.

Sources

http://www.storyofpakistan.com/person.asp?perid=P066

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