Shahzada Mirza Muhammad Salim Shah (1799 – 8 September 1836 ) (also known as

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Mirza Salim Shah) was a son of

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Akbar II and his consort Mumtaz-un-Nissa Begum. He was a younger brother of Emperor

Bahadur Shah II Bahadur Shah II, usually referred to by his poetic title Bahadur Shah ''Zafar'' (; ''Zafar'' Victory) was born Mirza Abu Zafar Siraj-ud-din Muhammad (24 October 1775 – 7 November 1862) and was the twentieth and last Mughal Emperor as well a ...

, former

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Mirza Jahangir Shahzada Mirza Muhammad Jahangir Bakht Bahadur (also known as Prince Mirza Jahangir Bakht) (1776 – 18 July 1821) was the son of Prince Mirza Akbar, who became the Emperor Akbar Shah II in 1806 and his wife Empress Mumtaz Mahal, he was also the ...

and Mirza Jahan Shah. He was his elder brother, Abu zafar's favourite brother. Salim always aged at Abu Zafar's decisions and always supported him.

Biography

His father ruled over a rapidly disintegrating

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between 1806 and 1837. It was during his time that the

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dispensed with the illusion of ruling in the name of the Mughal monarch and removed his name from the Persian texts that appeared on the coins struck by the company in the areas under their control. His brother was not his father's preferred choice as his successor. One of Akbar Shah's queens, Mumtaz Begum, had been pressuring him to declare her son,

as his successor. The East India Company exiled Jahangir after he attacked their resident, Sir

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, in the

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.Husain, MS (2006) Bahadur Shah Zafar; And the War of 1857 in Delhi, Aakar Books, Delhi, P87-88 The British tried to make him the appoint him as Heir Apparent on 26 September 1835 but refused to cave to his demands which is why his older brother, Mirza Abu Zafar Muhammad Bahadur took the throne as Emperor

Family

He married twice, both of whom were princesses of the Imperial family and his cousins. He had two sons and two daughters. He died in 1836 in the

, before the events of 1857 that ushered in the end of his

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and the rule of the Imperial family of India.

Sources

{{Reflist 1799 births 1836 deaths Mughal princes Timurid dynasty People from Delhi