Mirza Muhammad Nikusiyar or Nekusiyar or Neku Siyar, also known as Timur II, was a claimant to the Mughal throne. Neku Siyar was born in 1679, the son of Mughal prince Muhammad Akbar, and a grandson of emperor

Aurangzeb Alamgir I (Muhi al-Din Muhammad; 3 November 1618 – 3 March 1707), commonly known by the title Aurangzeb, also called Aurangzeb the Conqueror, was the sixth Mughal emperors, Mughal emperor, reigning from 1658 until his death in 1707, becomi ...

. He was brought up in a harem in

Agra Agra ( ) is a city on the banks of the Yamuna river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, about south-east of the national capital Delhi and 330 km west of the state capital Lucknow. With a population of roughly 1.6 million, Agra is the ...

. In 1695, at the age of 16, he was appointed the

subahdar Subahdar, also known as Nazim, was one of the designations of a governor of a Subah (province) during the Khalji dynasty of Bengal, Mamluk dynasty, Khalji dynasty, Tughlaq dynasty, and the Mughal era who was alternately designated as Sahib- ...

of Assam by Aurangzeb and served until 1701. In 1702, he was then appointed the subahdar of Sindh, serving until 1707.

Pretender to the throne

On May 1719, Birbal, the local governor of the

Agra Fort The Agra Fort (''Qila Agra'') is a historical Mughal fort in the city of Agra, also known as Agra's Red Fort. Mughal emperor Humayun was crowned at this fort in 1530. It was later renovated by the Mughal emperor Akbar from 1565 and the presen ...

, used Neku Siyar as a puppet and proclaimed him as the emperor. Neku Siyar was brought out of old harem prison on 18 May 1719 and proclaimed the Mughal emperor, challenging the legitimacy of the reign of his nephew

Rafi ud-Darajat Mirza Rafi ud-Darajat (); 1 December 1699 – 6 June 1719) was briefly the Eleventh Mughal emperor. He was the youngest son of Rafi-ush-Shan, the nephew of Azim-ush-Shan and a grandson of Bahadur Shah I. He was placed on the throne by th ...

. The

Sayyid brothers The Sayyid brothers were Hassan Ali Khan Barha, Abdullah Khan II and Hussain Ali Khan Barha, Syed Hussain Ali Khan, two powerful Mughal Empire, Mughal nobles who were active during the decline of the Mughal Empire. They were Punjabi Muslims bel ...

acted quickly to secure the position of their puppet emperor, retaking the Agra Fort by June and deposing Birbal and Neku Siyar from their posts. Neku Siyar was arrested on 13 August 1719 and again placed in his old harem prison at Agra. He was then imprisoned in the

Salimgarh Fort Salimgarh Fort (Salim's Fort) was built in 1546 AD, in Delhi, in a former island of the Yamuna River, by Islam Shah Suri, Salim Shah Suri, son of Sher Shah Suri. There was a pause in Mughal rule when in 1540 AD Sher Shah Suri defeated the Mugh ...

in Delhi. Neku Siyar died on 12 April 1723 in Persia, at the age of 43.

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