Ahmad Shah (Mughal)

Mughal Mughal Ahmad Shah

Ahmad Shah (born December 23, 1725 in Delhi ; died January 1, 1775 there ; actually Ahmad Shah Bahadur Mujahid-ud-din Abu Nasr ) was the 13th Mogul of the Indian Mughal Empire from 1748 to 1754. Ahmad Shah was considered kind-hearted but without will , uneducated and militarily inexperienced. The actual state power lay with his Wezir ( wazir-i mamalik ) Safdarjung , the powerful Nawab of Avadh (also Oudh ), who did not succeed in consolidating the Mughal empire , which had already fallen under Muhammad Shah .

biography

Ahmad Shah was the son of Muhammad Shah and came to the throne on April 29, 1748, thanks to an intrigue by his adoptive mother. However, many officers refused to pay homage to him because the Mughal Empire was unable to pay the wages. About a third of the army then deserted. The Afghan ruler Ahmad Shah Durrani took advantage of the weakness of the Mughal Empire by occupying Sindh and Gujarat in 1750 . At the same time, the Punjab was lost to the Sikhs . The empire was limited to the Delhi area.

On June 2, 1754, Ahmad Shah was deposed and blinded by Ghaziuddin Imad ul-Mulk , the grandson of the Nizam of Hyderabad , with the help of the Marathas . He was succeeded by his uncle Alamgir II , while Imad ul-Mulk took over the post of wazir-i mamalik . Ahmad Shah died in captivity in Delhi on the first day in 1775.

Succession

Ahmad Shah had several sons, but only Bidar Bakhsh briefly ruled the pitiful remnants of the once powerful Mughal empire in 1788.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Annemarie Schimmel : In the Empire of the Mughals. History, art, culture. CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2000, p. 58

predecessor	Office	successor
Muhammad Shah	Mughal Mughal of India 1748–1754	Alamgir II