Jahan Shah (Mughal prince)
| Jahan Shah جهان شاه | |||||
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Shahzada of the Mughal Empire Mirza[1] | |||||
_-_Copy.jpg) Prince Jahan Shah, c. 1704 | |||||
| Subahdar of Malwa | |||||
| Reign | 1707–1712 | ||||
| Badshah | Bahadur Shah I | ||||
| Born | 4 October 1673 Kabul, Kabul Subah, Mughal Empire (modern-day Afghanistan) | ||||
| Died | 30 March 1712 (aged 38) Lahore, Lahore Subah, Mughal Empire (modern-day Punjab, Pakistan) | ||||
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| House | Mughal dynasty | ||||
| Dynasty | Timurid dynasty | ||||
| Father | Bahadur Shah I[2] | ||||
| Religion | Islam | ||||
Mirza Khujista Akhtar Jahan Shah[3] (Persian: میرزا خجسته اختر جهان شاه) (4 October 1673 – 30 March 1712/30) was the fourth son of Emperor Bahadur Shah I. The birthdate of Mirza Khujista Akhtar Jahan Shah is debated. According to his memoir his death date was sometime in 1730.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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, known as Nawab Qudsiya, 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, who died at Delhi, on 27 April 1744.[4]
His eldest son was Shahzada Farkhunda Akhtar, who had born on was 1689 or 1690. He participated during the Imperial Civil war of 1712. According to Iradat Khan, Jahan Shah's son fought bravely with his father till their death. [5] It is also said during Farkhunda Akhtar's stay in Lahore, he was married to a noble woman belonging to a family who previously supported Jahan Shah, from that marriage, they had a son in 1711. After his death, his son & mother were either killed by Jahandar Shah or went into hiding.[6]
References
- The Mughal Empire by John F. Richards
Notes
- ^ Mughal title Mirza, the title of Mirza and not Khan or Padshah, which were the titles of the Mongol rulers.
- ^ Muni Lal, Mini Mughals (1989), p. 29
- ^ Faruqui, Munis D. (2012). The Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504–1719. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-02217-1.
- ^ Irvine, William (2006), The Later Mughals, Low Price Publications, p. 146, ISBN 81-7536-406-8
- ^ Elliot, Henry Miers; Dowson, John, eds. (2013), "Táríkh, of Irádat Khán", The History of India, as Told by its Own Historians: The Muhammadan Period, Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. 7, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 534–564, ISBN 978-1-139-50720-2, retrieved 29 November 2025
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link) - ^ Not recognised by Historians however Maliknama states more in depth about Jahan Shah as the family descended from one of the Jahan Shah's children (stated Farkhunda Akhtar, he died no source of marriage or etc in farmans but according to them he was married had a child after his death both were kept hidden however it is only documented in their memoir not in general history. This is a weak information, but keeping as a piece of information with a assumption it must be put into Jahan Shah's eldest son biographical life. Internal Sources supporting it: https://www.academia.edu/143026798/Maliknama_Second_Edition