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He was the crown Prince of the Mughal Empire from 1837 to 1849. He highly influenced his aged father's decisions and was favoured by every one at the court, including his charismatic stepmother Begum Zeenat Mahal. His death in 1849 triggered rivalry for heirdom between Mirza Fath-ul-Mulk Bahadur and Mirza Jawan Bakht, son of Begum Zeenat Mahal .
Oct 31, 1986 · Mirza Mohammad Bedaar Bakht, the last officially recognised direct male descendant of the Mughals who died in penury six years ago in Calcutta, would often revert to the Mughal style in a pathetic attempt to relive his past glory.
Jun 15, 2020 · In the Mughal capital of Delhi, a weak and flailing Bahadur Shah Zafar — a puppet of the British by then — saw a leading figure of his royal household, Mirza Fatah-Ul-Mulk Shah Bahadur, die, allegedly from the disease.
Mirza Fakhruddin had become the obvious heir on the death of his eldest brother, Mirza Dara Bakht, in 1849. For the first time in the nineteenth century the emperor’s favourite for the succession and the British obsession with primogeniture coincided.
- Jeremiah Losty
Fath-ul-Mulk was an older brother of Prince Mirza Mughal and the younger brother of former Crown Prince Mirza Dara Bakht. Fath-ul-Mulk married several wives and was the father of several children. Among his wives was Wazir Khanum, daughter of a rich jeweller and a well-known beauty of the time.
m. as his first wife, Mirza Dara Bakht Bahadur (b. at Benares, 1898; d. at Kanpur, 1952), elder son of Mirza Akbar Bakht Bahadur, by his wife, Wilayati Begum Sahiba, daughter of Sahibzada Muhammad Wahaj ud-din Shah, of the family of Tipu Sultan of Mysore.
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Mirza Jawan Bakht (1841 – 18 September 1884) was the son of Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar and Zeenat Mahal. He was the fifteenth son of his father, but the only son of his mother. She nursed the ambition of placing him on the Mughal throne. Biography. His mother, Zeenat Mahal, saved him all through 1857 rebellion and kept him in safe custody.
