History is the witness that Farrukhsiyar’s reign was turbulent, so was this the reason that European traders got success on the land of India and then ruled.
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The tenth Mughal emperor Farrukhsiyar is known as an anonymous and forgotten ruler in the pages of history. Farrukhsiyar was born on August 20, 1683. He was the second son of Azim-ush-Shan. His father was the grandson of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.
Bengal in 1707 and farrukhsiyar was made the ruler of the province. He spent his early years in the capital Dhaka. Later, when his grandfather Bahadur Shah became the first Mughal emperor, he moved to Murshidabad which is now in West Bengal.
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when he declared himself emperor
After Bahadur Shah I, Farrukhsiyar’s uncle Jahandar Shah became the Mughal emperor by defeating his father. Farrukhsiyar sets out on a path of revenge and is joined by the Sayyid brothers, Sayyid Hasan Ali Khan and Sayyid Hussain Ali Khan in his quest. After a long struggle, Farrukhsiyar finally defeated Jahandar Shah’s army on January 10, 1713. The Shah was imprisoned and executed. And Farrukhsiyar declared himself the Mughal emperor on 11 January.
regime in turmoil
Farrukhsiyar became the Mughal emperor with the help of Sayyid brothers. He made Syed Hasan Ali Khan the Wazir. According to historian William Irwin, Farrukhsiyar’s close associates Mir Jumla III and Khan Dauran sowed the seeds of doubt in his mind that they could remove him from the throne.
Capture of Rajasthan
Later, when Maharaja Ajit Singh captured Ajmer, Farrukhsiyar sent Hussain Ali Khan to subdue him. But secretly he sent a letter to Ajit Singh that if he defeated Khan he would be rewarded. Although Ajit Singh finally surrendered and Mughal power was restored in Rajasthan.
Hanging of Sikh leader Banda Bahadur Shah
Banda Singh Bahadur was a Sikh leader who had authority over parts of the Punjab region in the early 1700s. His growing power forced Farrukhsiyar to send 20,000 soldiers under the leadership of Qamaruddin Khan, Abdus Samad Khan and Zakaria Khan Bahadur in 1715 to defeat him. But after eight months of siege in Gurdaspur, Bahadur had to surrender. He was arrested and brought to Delhi along with 200 of his comrades, and paraded around the city of Sirhind.
According to William Irwin, every Sikh refused to give up his religion. As a result, he was executed. On 19 June 1716, Farrukhsiyar ordered the execution of Bahadur and his remaining imprisoned followers.
Farrukhsiyar’s order to the East Indian Company
It was Farrukhsiyar who gave the British East Indian Company a foothold in the Indian subcontinent in the guise of traders. In 1717, he issued a ‘farman’ (royal decree), which granted concessions to the Company and allowed them to carry out tax-free monopoly trade, especially in the Mughal provinces of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, and required them to pay only Rs. Had to do
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