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18th-century Mughal Empire people
- Rafi ud-DarajatRafi ud-Darajat sat on the Mughal throne for exactly three months and six days. He was nineteen years old when he was placed there, and he would never leave…
- Jahandar ShahJahandar Shah died on the 11th of February 1713, his body paraded through the streets of Delhi in pieces, hanging upside down from two elephants.
- Shah Jahan IIShah Jahan II ruled the Mughal Empire for exactly one hundred and three days in 1719. His birth name was Mirza Rafi-ud-Daulah, and he was the second son of a…
- Shah Jahan IIIShah Jahan III sat on the Mughal throne for just over a year, from December 1759 to 1760, making his reign one of the briefest in the dynasty's long history.
- Asaf-ud-DaulaAsaf-ud-Daula, the Nawab wazir of Oudh, built a monument so vast that it took over twenty thousand workers to construct it.
- AurangzebAurangzeb, born on the 3rd of November 1618 in Dahod, ruled the Mughal Empire for nearly half a century and died still fighting at the age of 88.
- FarrukhsiyarFarrukhsiyar was born on the 20th of August 1683 in Aurangabad, on the Deccan Plateau, the grandson of one Mughal emperor and great-grandson of another.
- Alamgir IIAlamgir II ruled the Mughal Empire from 1754 to 1759, a reign of only five years that ended with a knife in a courtyard.
- Ahmad Shah BahadurAhmad Shah Bahadur was born on the 23rd of December 1725, the son of the Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah, and he would grow up to become the fourteenth ruler of…
- Bahadur Shah IBahadur Shah I was born Muhammad Mu'azzam on the 14th of October 1643 in Burhanpur, the second son of a prince who would become the most powerful ruler in…
- Shah Alam IIShah Alam II was born Ali Gohar on the 25th of June 1728, inside the Red Fort in Delhi, in the semi-captivity quarters reserved for princes of the royal…
- Muhammad ShahOn the 9th of October 1720, Syed Hussain Ali Khan Barha stood in his encampment at Todabhim when a group of assassins struck.
- Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah INizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I, born Mir Qamar-ud-din Khan on the 11th of August 1671, walked into a dying empire and built something that outlasted it.
- Sawai Jai SinghSawai Jai Singh II inherited a throne at the age of eleven with barely enough resources to pay for a thousand cavalry. The year was 1699, and the Mughal…