1He is now Emperor, having succeeded his father, Akbar Shāh, in 1837.
2She consented, and was regularly installed in the charge by the Emperor Shāh Alam.
3Ahmad Shāh defeated the Marāthās in the third great battle of Pānīpat, A.D. 1761.
4Shāh Jahān Imprisoned by his Two Sons, Aurangzēb and Murād.
5The acute persecution by Shāh Jahān occurred in 1631.
6Content for Empire between the Sons of Shāh Jahān.
7Shēr Khan is generally known as Shēr (or Shīr) Shāh.
8A Roman Catholic church was built, the steeple of which was pulled down by Shāh Jahān.
9During that negotiation Shāh Jahān was at Agra.
10The murderer reigned until A.D. 1315 under the title of Alā-ud- dīn Muhammad Shāh, Sikandar Sānī.
11Nādir Shāh in 1738 cleared the palace of the peacock throne and almost everything portable of value.
12Nādir Shāh was killed while encamped there.
13Nadir Shāh's invasion took place in 1738.
14Shāh Jahān's concern was with his wife's tomb, and his fortified palaces, more than with 'the cities'.
15This hall was, 'if not the most beautiful, certainly the most highly ornamented of all Shāh Jahān's buildings.
16A body of archers helped to hold the Shāh Najaf building at Lucknow against Sir Colin Campbell in 1858.