Mirza Mughal and Prince Jawan Bakhat

These two images are of two cousins who lived during the Mughal Rule in the subcontinent.

The first picture is of Mirza Mughal who was the fifth child of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the 19th and final Mughal sovereign. His mother, Sharif-ul-Mahal Sayyidini, came from an highborn Sayyid family that claimed plunge from Muhammad. Following the passing in 1856 of his senior step-brother Mirza Fakhru, Mirza Mughal got to be the eldest surviving really born child of Bahadur Shah Zafar. In any case, the British denied to recognize anyone as beneficiary to the position of authority of Delhi, and demonstrated that the government would be nullified taking after Zafar's death. He played a critical part amid the Indian Disobedience of 1857. Mirza Mughal was one of the Mughal sovereigns shot dead at one of the doors of Ancient Delhi, which entryway from there on came to be known as "Khooni Darwaza" ("grisly entryway" or "kill entryway").

Shahzada Mirza Jawan Bakht Bahadur (Persian, Urdu: شہزادہ مرزا جوان بخت بہادر) alternative spelling Mirza Javan Bakht, Mirza Jewan Bakht also known as Mirza Jahandar Shah (1749 - 31 May 1788 A.D., 25th Shaban 1202 A.H.,) born at the Red Fort, Delhi. He was the eldest son of Emperor Shah Alam II and the grandson of Emperor Alamgir II. Jawan Bakht was a very influential Timurid Prince of the Mughal Empire.

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