Mirza Muhammad Nikusiyar, also known as Timur II was a claimant to the throne of
India. He had been in prison from 1681 to 1719 and initiated a war to seize the throne in 1719. He was son of rebel
Muhammad Akbar, grandson of
Aurangzeb
Muhi al-Din Muhammad (; – 3 March 1707), commonly known as ( fa, , lit=Ornament of the Throne) and by his regnal title Alamgir ( fa, , translit=ʿĀlamgīr, lit=Conqueror of the World), was the sixth emperor of the Mughal Empire, ruling ...
and was brought up in a harem in
Agra. In 1695 he was 16 was appointed subedar of Assam until 1701. In 1702 The Prince appointed Subehdar of
Sindh
Sindh (; ; ur, , ; historically romanized as Sind) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the southeastern region of the country, Sindh is the third-largest province of Pakistan by land area and the second-largest province ...
by Aurangzeb he served until 1707.
The local Minister Birbal (not the
Birbal of
Akbar
Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (25 October 1542 – 27 October 1605), popularly known as Akbar the Great ( fa, ), and also as Akbar I (), was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605. Akbar succeeded his father, Hum ...
's fame) used him as puppet and proclaimed him emperor, but since the prince had spent his life inside harem and talked like a
catamite, he was laughingly ignored and again put in jail by the
Syed Brothers
The term Sayyid brothers refers to Abdullah Khan and Syed Husain Ali Khan, who were powerful in the Mughal Empire during the early 18th century.
They were Indian Muslims who claimed to belong to the family of Sayyids or the descendants of t ...
. Neku Siyar died in 1723 at age of 43.
War of Succession and fate
On 18 May 1719, the local governor of
Agra; Birbal, brought out Prince Nekusiyar from his harem prison and, in order to enhance his own powers, proclaimed him Emperor of India at Agra Fort.
However, an ambition so grand could not be accomplished, and the Syed Brothers defeated both Nekuseyar and Birbal by June and deposed both of them from their former posts.
Nekusiyar was arrested on 13 August 1719, and again placed in his old harem prison at Agra. However, soon after, he was moved to
Salimgarh in
Delhi. Siyar died in Persia on 12 April 1723 at the age of 43.
Ancestry
References
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1723 deaths
1679 births
Mughal princes
Timurid dynasty