Mirza Khujista Akhtar Jahan Shah (

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: میرزا خجسته اختر جهان شاه) (4 October 1673 – 30 March 1712/30) was the fourth son of Emperor

Bahadur Shah I Bahadur Shah I (Muhammad Mu'azzam; 14 October 1643 – 27 February 1712) or Shah Alam I, was the eighth Mughal Emperor from 1707 to 1712. He was the second son of the sixth Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, who he conspired to overthrow in his youth ...

. The birthdate of Mirza Khujista Akhtar Jahan Shah is debated, according to his found memoir his death date is now set on 1730. Both dates are correct otherwise then.

Life

He was made

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(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 Mirza Azim-ush-Shan (15 December 1664 – 18 March 1712) was the second son of the 8th Mughal Emperor Shah Alam I and his Rajput wife Amrit Kanwar. He was the great grandson of Shah Jahan and the grandson of Aurangzeb during whose reign he was ...

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 Mirza Nasir-ud-Din Muḥammad Shah (born Roshan Akhtar; 7 August 1702 – 26 April 1748) was the thirteenth Mughal emperor from 1719 to 1748. He was son of Khujista Akhtar, the fourth son of Bahadur Shah I. After being chosen by the Sayyid ...

later ruled as emperor for 28 years.

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, the descendant of Sarih Qazi, and the mother of Emperor

. 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. Jahan Shah had 5 spouses from whom he had 5 sons and 8 daughters. Maliknama; Legacy Of the Maliks by Muhammad Mustafa Malik , Open Library His five sons are as

, Buland Akhtar Mirza Bahadur, Mubarak Akhtar Mirza Bahadur, Muhammad Humayun Mirza Akhtar and Shahzada Farkhunda Akhtar.

References

*
The Mughal Empire
' by John F. Richards

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jahan Shah 01 1673 births 1712 deaths Mughal princes Sons of emperors 18th-century Mughal Empire people 18th-century Indian royalty Subahdars of Malwa