Shah Alam I Bahadur Shah I | |||||||||||||
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Padishah Al-Sultan Al-Azam | |||||||||||||
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Reign | 19 June 1707 – 27 February 1712 | ||||||||||||
Coronation | 15 June 1707 | ||||||||||||
Predecessor | Azam Shāh | ||||||||||||
Successor | Jahāndār Shāh | ||||||||||||
Born | Mirza Muhammad Mu'azzam 14 October 1643 Shahi Qila, Burhanpur, Mughal Empire | ||||||||||||
Died | 27 February 1712 Lahore, Mughal Empire | (aged 68)||||||||||||
Burial | 15 May 1712 | ||||||||||||
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House | House of Babur | ||||||||||||
Dynasty | Timurid dynasty | ||||||||||||
Father | Alamgir I | ||||||||||||
Mother | Nawab Bai | ||||||||||||
Religion | Islam[a] | ||||||||||||
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Mirza Muhammad Mu'azzam (14 October 1643 – 27 February 1712), commonly known as Bahadur Shah I and 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. He was also governor of the imperial provinces of Agra, Kabul and Lahore and had to face revolts of Rajputs and Sikhs.
After Aurangzeb's death, Muhammad Azam Shah, his third son by his chief consort declared himself successor, but was shortly defeated in one of the largest battles of India, the Battle of Jajau and overthrown by Bahadur Shah. During the reign of Bahadur Shah, the Rajput kingdoms of Jodhpur and Amber were annexed again after they had declared independence a few years prior.
Bahadur Shah also sparked an Islamic controversy in the khutba by inserting the declaration of Ali as wali. His reign was disturbed by several rebellions, the Sikhs under the leadership of Banda Singh Bahadur, Rajputs under Durgadas Rathore and a Mughal prince Kam Bakhsh but all of them were successfully quelled.
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