Alamgir II


Alamgīr II or'Azīz al-Dīn'Alamgīr II (June 6, 1699, Multan - November 29, 1769, Delhi) was a Mughal emperor of India, who reigned from 1754 to 1759.

He was put on the throne by the imperial vizier Imād al-Mulk Ghāzī al-Dīn, always being the puppet of more powerful men, such as the Afghan ruler Ahmed Sah Abdali, whose troops occupied Delhi in 1757 and made Alamgīr the symbolic emperor of Hindustan. He was killed by Nawab Mir Ghazi ud-Din, who feared that Alamgīr was captured and used against him in an Afghan invasion.



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