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Imad-ul-Mulk
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Ghazi ud-Din Khan Feroze Jung III.
Deposing Emperor Ahmad Shah Bahadur
Imad-ul-Mulk released Prince Aziz-ud-Din from prison and crowned him emperor with the regnal nameAlamgir II. The 55-year-old prince had been in prison since 1714 when his father emperor Jahandar Shah was overthrown by Farrukhsiyar. He had no experience of administration or warfare, serving as another puppet Mughal emperor with all power vested with Imad-ul-Mulk. He supposedly intercepted the secret dispatches from Ahmad Shah Bahadur to Suraj Mal where the imprisoned emperor promised to aid to the Jats if they continued to hold out against the Mughal army besieging Bharatpur. Imad-ul-Mulk made peace with Suraj Mal, returned to Delhi and had Ahmad Shah Bahadur and his mother Qudsia Begum blinded with hot needles.