Ahmad Shah Bahadur

Ahmad Shah (* 1727 in Delhi, ibid † October 8, 1774, Ahmad Shah Bahadur actually Mujahid -ud-din Abu Nasr ) was Emperor of the North Indian Mughal Empire from 1748 to 1754, he was the son of Muhammad Shah. . Ahmad Shah was regarded as a kind-hearted but weak-willed, ignorant and militarily inexperienced. The actual state power was his Prime Minister ( Wazir -i mamalik ) Safdar Jang, the, however, failed to consolidate the dilapidated under Muhammad Shah Mughal Empire.

Ahmad Shah came on 29 April 1748, thanks to an intrigue of his adoptive mother, on the throne. However, many officers refused to pay him homage, as the Mughal Empire was unable to pay the wages. About a third of the army deserted then. The weakness of the Mughal Empire made ​​the Afghan ruler Ahmad Shah Durrani advantage by 1750 the Sindh and Gujarat occupied. At the same time Punjab was lost to the Sikhs. The kingdom was limited only to the Delhi area. On June 2, 1754, Ahmad Shah Imad ul- Mulk of Ghaziuddin, the grandson of the Nizam of Hyderabad, with the help of the Marathas deposed and blinded. Was succeeded by his uncle Alamgir II, while Imad ul- Mulk took over the office of wazir -i mamalik. Ahmad Shah died in captivity in Delhi.

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• Mogul
• Indian
• Born in 1727
• Died in 1774
• Man