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Shuja-ud-Daula (b. 19 January 1732 – d. 26 January 1775) was the Subedar [1] and Nawab of Oudh and the Vizier of Delhi from 5 October 1754 to 26 January 1775. [2] Early life. Shuja-ud-Daula was the son of the Mughal Grand Vizier Safdarjung chosen by Ahmad Shah Bahadur.
Shuja-ud-Daula, Najib-ul-Daula, and Mirza Jawan Bakht allied with Ahmad Shah Durrani and aided his forces in the Second Battle of Sikandarabad in 1760, and later led a Mughal army of 43,000 in the Third Battle of Panipat.
Shuja-ud-Daula, the Mughal Empire’s selected Grand Vizier, led a sizable army of Mughal warriors in the Third Battle of Panipat, cutting off the Marathas’ supplies and even defeating them in fierce combat. He also sent the Maratha leader Sadashivrao Bhau away. Battle of Buxar.
According to the single-best eyewitness chronicle—the bakhar by Shuja-ud-Daula's Diwan Kashi Raja—about 40,000 Maratha prisoners were collectively slaughtered on the day after the battle. British historian Grant Duff includes an interview of a survivor of these massacres in his History of the Marathas and generally corroborates this number.
Shuja-ud-Daula (b. () 19 January 1732 – d. () 26 January 1775) was the Subedar and Nawab of Oudh and the Vizier of Delhi from 5 October 1754 to 26 January 1775.
Nov 28, 2022 · Chief consort (khass mahal) to Nawab Shuja-ud-Daula (r. 1754–75) and mother to his successor Nawab Asaf-ud-Daula (r. 1775–97), Bahu Begam played a well-documented role in the regime’s tumultuous politics, particularly during Warren Hastings’s tenure as the Company’s governor-general (1773–85) and his later parliamentary impeachment ...
Shuja-ud-Daula (b. 19 January 1732 – d. 26 January 1775) was the Subedar and Nawab of Oudh and the Vizier of Delhi from 5 October 1754 to 26 January 1775. Early life. Shuja-ud-Daula was the son of the Mughal Grand Vizier Safdarjung chosen by Ahmad Shah Bahadur.
