1
He is now Emperor, having succeeded his father, Akbar Shāh, in 1837.
2
She consented, and was regularly installed in the charge by the Emperor Shāh Alam.
3
Ahmad Shāh defeated the Marāthās in the third great battle of Pānīpat, A.D. 1761.
4
Shāh Jahān Imprisoned by his Two Sons, Aurangzēb and Murād.
5
The acute persecution by Shāh Jahān occurred in 1631.
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Content for Empire between the Sons of Shāh Jahān.
7
Shēr Khan is generally known as Shēr (or Shīr) Shāh.
8
A Roman Catholic church was built, the steeple of which was pulled down by Shāh Jahān.
9
During that negotiation Shāh Jahān was at Agra.
10
The murderer reigned until A.D. 1315 under the title of Alā-ud- dīn Muhammad Shāh, Sikandar Sānī.
11
Nādir Shāh in 1738 cleared the palace of the peacock throne and almost everything portable of value.
12
Nādir Shāh was killed while encamped there.
13
Nadir Shāh's invasion took place in 1738.
14
Shāh Jahān's concern was with his wife's tomb, and his fortified palaces, more than with 'the cities'.
15
This hall was, 'if not the most beautiful, certainly the most highly ornamented of all Shāh Jahān's buildings.
16
A body of archers helped to hold the Shāh Najaf building at Lucknow against Sir Colin Campbell in 1858.