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The Mughal war of succession of 1658–1659 was a war of succession fought between the four sons of Shah Jahan: Aurangzeb, Dara Shikoh, Murad Bakhsh, and Shah Shuja, in hopes of gaining the Mughal Throne. Prior to the death of Shah Jahan, each of his sons held governorships during their father's reign.
The Mughal war of succession (1707–1709) [1] [2] [3] or the Mughal Civil War [citation needed] was a period of political disorder and armed conflict over succession in the Mughal Empire following the death of the sixth Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in March 1707.
Mughal war of succession may refer to: Mughal war of succession (1627–1628), after the death of emperor Nuruddin Salim Jahangir of the Mughal Empire; Mughal war of succession (1658–1659), after grave illness of emperor Shah Jahan of the Mughal Empire; Mughal war of succession (1707–1709), after the death of emperor Aurangzeb of the Mughal ...
Battle of Samugarh, Jang-e-Samugarh, (May 29, 1658), was a decisive battle in the struggle for the throne during the Mughal war of succession (1658–1659) between the sons of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan after the emperor's serious illness in September 1657.
The Mughal dynasty (Persian: دودمان مغل, romanized: Dudmân-e Mughal) or the House of Babur (Persian: خاندانِ آلِ بابُر, romanized: Khāndān-e-Āl-e-Bābur), was a branch of the Timurid dynasty founded by Babur that ruled the Mughal Empire from its inception in 1526 till the early eighteenth century, and then as ceremonial suzerains over much of the empire until 1857.
Zulfiqar Khan (along with other nobles) was invited to the court and reconciled, despite siding with Azam in the war of succession, in keeping with Mughal tradition. While his father Asad Khan lost the post of wazir to Munim Khan, Zulfiqar Khan himself had his rank raised, and he was reconfirmed in his post of mir bakhshi. [19]
Judith E. Walsh (2006) stated that wars of succession were "the one problem the Mughals never solved", and that after Aurangzeb's death in 1707, repetitive "succession struggles brought Mughal power more or less to an end" [82] On the other hand, scholars such as Faruqui (2002) have posited that studies which argue Mughal succession struggles ...
Historians have offered numerous accounts of the several factors involved in the rapid collapse of the Mughal Empire between 1707 and 1720, after a century of growth and prosperity. A succession of short-lived incompetent and weak rulers, and civil wars over the succession, created political instability at the centre.