Shah Shuja (India)

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Shah Shuja, Aurangzeb and Murad Bakhsh (around 1637)

Shah Shuja (June born 23 jul. / 3. July  1616 greg. In Ajmer , India ; died 1660 ) was the second son of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and his chief wife , Mumtaz Mahal .

Life

family

Shah Shuja grew up in the Mughal courts of Agra and Lahore with his siblings, including his older brother Dara Shikoh and younger brothers Aurangzeb and Murad Bakhsh . He was married to Paira Banu Begum, a Hindu princess, with whom he had three sons.

history

In 1641 Shah Shuja was appointed governor ( subahdar ) of Bengal and Bihar by his father Shah Jahan . He spent several years in Dhaka , where he realized or initiated numerous construction projects. From 1648 to 1661 he was also governor of the Mughal Empire in Orissa . During the years of Shah Jahan's illness (1657/58) he tried in vain to succeed him as the Grand Mughal. In the fratricidal struggles for rule of the Mughal Empire, he was defeated on January 5, 1659 in the Battle of Khajwa to the troops of his younger brother Aurangzeb led by Mir Jumla II . He then retired to his former residence in Dhaka in Bengal, but embarked for Arakan (now Myanmar / Burma ) in May 1660 . He carried several camel cargoes with precious stones, gold jewelry, carpets etc. with him, which aroused the desire of the King of Arakan, Sanda Thudhamma .

Shah Shuja was killed in exile in Burma in 1660 with his family and parts of his entourage on the charge of planning a rebellion in the royal seat of the Rakhine principality , Mrauk U , on the orders of Sanda Thudhamma; Rumors about an allegedly successful escape, his continued life and the reference to his tomb in Sulu lingered for a long time.

Web links

Commons : Shah Shuja  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shah Shuja in the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh.
  2. ^ Robert Orme, Historical Fragments of the Mughal Empire (1805), p. 49 f.
personal data
SURNAME Shah Shuja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pretender as Grand Mughal of India
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1616
PLACE OF BIRTH Ajmer , India
DATE OF DEATH 1660