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SHAH ALAM (1728-1806)

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 769 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SCY-SHA
SHAH ALAM (1728-1806) , Mogul emperor of
Delhi
 , son of Alamgir II., was born on the 15th of June 1728, and was originally known as the Shahzada All Gohar. Being proclaimed a
rebel
  by his father, he fled to Shuja-ud-Dowlah, wazir of Oudh, and on the death of his father in 1759 assumed the name of Shah Alam. He joined Shuja-ud-Dowlah against the British, but after his defeat at the battle of Buxar, he sought British
protection
 . In 1765 he granted the diwani (superintendence of the revenue) of Bengal to Lord
Clive
  for the
East
  India Company in return for a payment of 26 lakhs a year. In 1771 he
fell
  into the power of the Mahrattas, was installed emperor of
Delhi
 , and lost the British subsidy. In 1788 the Rohilla
chief
  Ghulam Kadir seized Delhi and put out Shah Alam's eyes. Sindhia restored him to the throne, and after the Mahratta war of 1803 he was again taken under British
protection
 . He died on the loth of November 18o6.
See W. Francklin, History of the Reign of Shah Alam (Calcutta, 1798).


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