| Mirza Fakhru | |||||
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| Crown Prince of the Mughal Kingdom | |||||
 Mirza Muhamed Sultan Sutteh ud-Mulk Shah, the Heir Apparent | |||||
| Born | 1816–18 Red Fort, Old Delhi, Mughal Kingdom | ||||
| Died | 10 July 1856 (aged 38–40) Red Fort, Old Delhi, Mughal Kingdom | ||||
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| House | Timurid | ||||
| Father | Bahadur Shah Zafar | ||||
| Mother | Rahim Buksh Bai Begum | ||||
Shahzada Mirza Fath-ul-Mulk Bahadur also known as Mirza Fakhru (c. 1816 or 1818 – 10 July 1856) was the last Crown Prince of the Mughal Kingdom.
Biography
A senior Prince of the Mughal Royal Family, he was the son of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal Emperor, through his wife Rahim Bukhsh Bai Begum.[1]
Fath-ul-Mulk was named Crown Prince in 1853. However he predeceased his father, dying of cholera in 1856. Other sources suggest that he was poisoned.
Family
Fath-ul-Mulk was an older brother of Prince Mirza Mughal and the younger brother of former Crown Prince Mirza Dara Bakht.
Fath-ul-Mulk married several wives and was the father of several children. Among his wives was Wazir Khanum, daughter of a rich jeweller and a well-known beauty of the time. Wazir Khanum had previously been married to Shamshuddin, Nawab of Ferozepur Jhirka, a relative and close friend of Mirza Ghalib, and she had borne Nawab Shamshuddin a son, the noted poet Dagh Dehlvi. After the Nawab was hanged for plotting and paying for the murder of British officer William Fraser, Wazir Khanum married Fath-ul-Mulk, and he thus became the step-father of Dagh Dehlvi, who would later become a famous poet.
Among Fath-ul-Mulk's own sons were Mirza Abu Bakht and Mirza Fakhrunda Jamal. Among his daughters was Sikander Jehan Begum, who was married to a sufi mystic and became the mother of two daughters and a son, Mirza Qutb-e-Alam.
Sources
- ↑ The House of Timur:: Delhi's Royal Family Archived 2011-06-13 at the Wayback Machine
External links
Media related to Mirza Fath-ul-Mulk at Wikimedia Commons