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What is the timeline of Mughal emperors?

What is the timeline of Mughal emperors?

Timeline Of The Mughal Dynasty

Rank Mughal Ruler Period of Rule
1 Babur 1526 – 1530
2 Humayun 1530 – 1540 1555 – 1556
3 Akbar 1556 – 1605
4 Jahangir 1605 – 1627

Who is the 15 Mughal emperor?

Shah Jahan III
Bahadur Shah II

No. Name of the Mughal Emperors Reign
15 Shah Jahan III 1759 – 1760
16 Shah Alam II 1760 – 1788 1803 – 1808
17 Bidar Bakht 1808
18 Akbar II 1808 – 1837

How many Mughal emperors are there?

There were nineteen emperors of the Mughal Empire in thirteen generations. Throughout the 331-year history of the Mughal Empire the emperors were all members of the same house, the house of Timurid.

How many Mughal emperors and their names?

List of Mughal Emperors in India (1526-1857)

Emperor Reign
Jahandar Shah 1712–1713
Furrukhsiyar 1713–1719
Rafi Ul-Darjat 1719
Rafi Ud-Daulat 1719

Who was the most handsome Mughal emperor?

Shah Jahan
CHENNAI: They say that Shah Jahan was the most handsome of all the Mughal emperors. Portraits of him show an aristocratic nose, a high forehead and eyes far less Mongol than that of his father. He was an accomplished rider and a swordsman.

Who was the 18th Mughal emperor?

Prince Mirza Akbar was born on 22 April 1760 to Emperor Shah Alam II at Mukundpur, Satna, while his father was in exile.

Who was the weakest Mughal Emperor?

Humayun was the weakest of the early Mughal Emperors due to his inexperience. It was under his rule that the Mughal Empire lost most of its territories to a rising Sur Empire.

Who was the 13th Mughal Emperor?

Muḥammad Shah, in full Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad Shah, original name Roshan Akhtar, (born August 7, 1702, Ghaznā [now Ghaznī], Afghanistan—died April 6, 1748, Delhi [India]), ineffective, pleasure-seeking Mughal emperor of India from 1719 to 1748.

Who is the 14th Mughal emperor?

Aḥmad Shah, in full Aḥmad Shah Bahādur Mujāhid al-Ḍīn Abū Naṣr, (born Dec. 24, 1725, Delhi [India]—died Jan. 1, 1775, Delhi), ineffectual Mughal emperor of India from 1748 to 1754, who has been characterized as good-natured but incompetent and without personality, training, or qualities of leadership.

Who was the 17th Mughal emperor?

Shah Alam II
Shah Alam II (Persian pronunciation: [ʃɑːh ɑːlam]; 25 June 1728 – 19 November 1806), also known by his birth name Ali Gohar (or Ali Gauhar), was the seventeenth Mughal Emperor and the son of Alamgir II. Shah Alam II became the emperor of a crumbling Mughal empire.

Who was the 19th Mughal emperor?

Bahādur Shāh II. Bahādur Shāh II, also called Bahādur Shāh Ẓafar, (born October 24, 1775, Delhi, India—died November 7, 1862, Rangoon [now Yangon], Myanmar), the last Mughal emperor of India (reigned 1837–57). He was a poet, musician, and calligrapher, more an aesthete than a political leader.