Jahangir Mirza II (born 1485) was the second son of

Umar Sheikh Mirza Umar Shaikh Mirza II ( fa, , b. 1456 – d. 1494) was the ruler of the Fergana Valley. He was the fourth son of Abu Sa'id Mirza, the emperor of the Timurid Empire in what is now Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and eastern Iran. His first wi ...

and half brother of

Babur Babur ( fa, , lit= tiger, translit= Bābur; ; 14 February 148326 December 1530), born Mīrzā Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad, was the founder of the Mughal Empire in the Indian subcontinent. He was a descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan through his ...

, the founder of the

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. He was two years younger to Babur and his mother, Fatima Sultan, belonged to the clan of Mughal Tuman Begs. Jahangir Mirza was the focus of a rival coterie of Mughal Begs for claiming the family fiefdom of Umar Sheikh, the kingdom of

Farghana Fergana ( uz, Fargʻona/Фарғона, ), or Ferghana, is a district-level city and the capital of Fergana Region in eastern Uzbekistan. Fergana is about 420 km east of Tashkent, about 75 km west of Andijan, and less than 20 km fr ...

and its dependencies, in the initial years of Babur's reign as a young

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prince. However, Jahangir Mirza later shared an almost stable relation with Babur as is evident by his survival as a

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with his own following and his later status as a first among equals among the lower-ranking Mirzas of the Timurid clan. Jahangir Mirza was in Babur's camp in the latter part of his career and strongly suggested the launch on attack on Qalat-i-Ghilzai during Babur's illness in 911 AH according to the ''

Baburnama The ''Bāburnāma'' ( chg, ; literally: ''"History of Babur"'' or ''"Letters of Babur"''; alternatively known as ''Tuzk-e Babri'') is the memoirs of Ẓahīr-ud-Dīn Muhammad Bābur (1483–1530), founder of the Mughal Empire and a great-great- ...

''. Jahangir Mirza was present at numerous feasts and celebrations by Babur during his onward march towards

Kabul Kabul (; ps, , ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province; it is administratively divided into 22 municipal districts. Acco ...

. Jahangir Mirza was awarded

Ghazni Ghazni ( prs, غزنی, ps, غزني), historically known as Ghaznain () or Ghazna (), also transliterated as Ghuznee, and anciently known as Alexandria in Opiana ( gr, Αλεξάνδρεια Ωπιανή), is a city in southeastern Afghanistan ...

for his labours in Babur's successful campaign for the conquest of Kabul in 1504. Babur later visited him in Ghazni as is evident by a contemporary miniature painting of a feast thrown by him in Ghazni in Babur's honour in May 1505. The last mention of Jahangir Mirza in the ''Baburnama'' is in the events of 913 AH when his wife, the mother of his son Pir-i-Muhammad, came to pay respects to Babur.

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