He was the eldest son of Emperor Shah Alam II and the grandson of Emperor Alamgir II, Jawan Bakht was a The black-and-white image is being shared alongside another photo of actor Rajat Tokas, who played Akbar in the television serial Jodha Akbar. Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for February 14, 2021 is: prothalamion \proh-thuh-LAY-mee-un\ noun: a song in celebration of a marriage Examples:" Thus ended the Great Mughal Empire in India, after more than three centuries of rule. After him, though, there was no Mughal Crown Prince. While the grapevine tilted towards a sinister conspiracy, there was no evidence that Mirza Fakhru died of poisoning and no contemporary historian doubted the official version of his death. The first case of the first cholera pandemic broke out in Jessore in Bengal in 1817. Mirza Shah Abbas married a daughter of a Muslim merchant of Rangoon, his descendants still live in Rangoon today. Under the new masters, cholera reappeared in Delhi, heavily affecting the British ranks but this time didnt do much to alter the course of what was already taking shape a transfer of India from the Company to the Crown. Epidemics often alter the course of history. Bengal Famine The Bengal Famine in 1770 was a massive catastrophe that signalled the end of the Mughal Empire and disorder in the Indian Subcontinent . Mirza "In that month Ghalib wrote a prothalamion on the occasion of the forthcoming marriage of the king's youngest son, Mirza Jawan Bakht." His personal royal physician Mohammad Naqi Khan prepared a potion which Mirza Fakhru consumed. What happened next is straight out of a thriller novel. But his son and heir apparent Prince Mirza Jawan Bakht and Najib-ul-Daula, represented the emperor for the next 12 years in Delhi. The local hakims and physicians did all they could but, obviously, it takes much more than that to check an epidemic. The latter was a polyglot. Contemporaries & Disciples of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib The wedding of the silver-haired monarch to a teenage girl was the talk of the town and a few Urdu poets such as Ghanshyam Lal Aasi took potshots at the Jahanpanah. The Only Known Living name is Jawan Bakht. But the real time bomb was ticking away in the heart of Agra, among a group of people often viewed as a scourge of society the inmates of the Agra Central Prison. Jan 2, 2018 - A SEATED PORTRAIT OF THE MUGHAL PRINCE MIRZA JAWAN BAKHT (1749-1788)AFTER JOHAN ZOFFANY, LUCKNOW, NORTH INDIA, LATE 18TH CENTURYOpaque pigments on paper, depicted wearing a plain green turban and white tunic, both hands resting on his sword hilt, laid on paper, within narrow gold border with black rules, erroneous iden Users have been taking pot-shots at the ancient leader while sharing the viral collage. He has a penchant for Indian history. Alt News performed a Google reverse image search and found this photo on the Indian Culture portal of the Indian government. Howrah line son: Jawan Bakht, grandson: Jamshid Bakht, great-grandson: Mirza Muhammad Bedar Bakht (married Sultana Begum, who currently runs a tea stall in Howrah). All through the night, efforts were made to resuscitate him. There's a good probability that descendants of Jawan Bakht and Shah Zamani Begum might have survived and have been living in Rangoon. Hakim Ahsanullah Khan, a leading physician in Delhi, had once told Harriet Tytler, an Englishwoman in Delhi, that he could kill any man with a poison and even set a timeline for his death. It is being claimed that Akbar was physically weak in real life, but leftist forces have depicted him as a powerful ruler onscreen. His death was attributed to the cholera epidemic. In the Mughal capital of Delhi, a weak and flailing Bahadur Shah Zafar a puppet of the British by then saw a leading figure of his royal household, Mirza Fatah-Ul-Mulk Shah Bahadur, die, allegedly from the disease. The same has been corrected in the report. The Last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar who was Forced to Join 1857 Rebellion which finaly resulted in Defeat.The Emperor with His Wife Zeenat Mahal and 16 Of His Children 14 of His Children were Brutualy Killed Daughters Raped . However, this was not accepted and she was exiled The young prince Mirza Javan Bakht, Shah Alam's eldest son, c.1786, in "Company School" style. Portrait by William Carpenter, circa 1856, a few months before his death, An inspiration to Mahatma Gandhi, Kudmul Ranga Rao campaigned for Dalits in Southern India, What Vijayaraje Scindia did in 1967, her grandson Jyotiraditya Scindia would repeat in 2020, When the Harmandir Sahib Disappeared from Devotees, Revisit the darkest chapter of the Golden Temple and how it rose again, despite the vengeful designs of the Afghans. The Letter of Succession was signed by three Company officials James Thomson, Sir Henry Eliot and Thomas Metcalfe, the British Resident of Delhi. Locals say the cholera epidemic broke out on the 15th day of Ramzan i.e. Image ID: JG33A4. The winter of 1855-56 in Agra was warmer than usual. Months passed but the pain refused to go away. This was apparent when the Magistrate of Saharanpur stated in The Report on Cholera in the Meerut, Rohilchund and Ajmere Divisions, 1856: Its (epidemic) sudden appearance without any visible cause at isolated points and immediate fatality might be likened to the seeds which a bird drops in its flight and which germinate where they fall.. By the beginning of July 1856, the epidemic had reached Etawah, Bareilly and Farukkhabad and the authorities were utterly defeated. Father of Muhammad Bidar Dil Mirza; Muhammad Dindar Dil Mirza; Muhammad Said Bakht Mirza; Hayatu'llah Mirza; Said Begum and It was only when Reverend J S Scott, a Christian living in the posh Civil Lines neighbourhood in Agra, was diagnosed with cholera that the administration sat up and took note. Another reverse image search using Yandex led us to the website of SOAS University of London. Begum Zeenat Begum asked Ghalib to write a sehra for her son, Mirza Jawan Bakths wedding. In 1856, the entire population of Agra District, consisting of neighboring towns such as Ferozabad, was 10,01,961. On 9th July 1856, the hitherto healthy Mirza Fakhru woke up to a low-grade fever and abdominal discomfort. Thousands died and many more fled, inadvertently carrying the infection with them to places as far as Multan in the west and Madras in the south. (Archive link). On 19th October 1804, Maratha forces withdrew and the East India Companys forces marched into Delhi, obliterating every last vestige of Mughal control. According to the website, this picture was taken in 1858 and was part of the Howard and Jane Ricketts Collection. The British did not pay heed to any communications sent by Zafar and the English-speaking Mirza Fatah-ul-Mulk Shah Bahadur, probably the wisest and most pragmatic of all Zafars children, and who was already in the line to the throne, was made Crown Prince against the wishes of Begum Zeenat Mahal and Bahadur Shah Zafar, on the 3rd of September 1852. The website states that the person appearing in the collage is Mirza Shah Abbas, the son of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor. The first photo ever taken with a camera was in France sometime between 1826 and 1827, whereas Akbar died in 1605. Begum Zeenat Mahal was the wife of Emperor Bahadur Shah II and de facto Empress of the Mughal Empire on behalf of the Emperor. No one knows exactly when but, some time in the beginning of July, the epidemic had reached Delhi. But they (poisons) do their work slowly and surely. Zafar had 16 sons and 31 daughters. It was the perfect breeding ground for an epidemic to ripen. He had also told her that there would be no way to ascertain the cause of death. Bengal Famine Within a year of the marriage, Begum Zeenat Mahal gave birth to a son, Zafars 15th child, who was given the name, Mirza Jawan Bakht. Next in line to Mirza Dara Bakht were Mirza Kayumars and Mirza Fatah-ul-Mulk Bahadur alias Mirza Fakhru. By 1804, Mughal control over Delhi had been all but crushed and the Marathas and the East India Company both eyed the throne of Delhi. Lithograph of Agra, 19th century|Wikimedia Commons, One of the earliest photographs of the Taj Mahal, 19th century, Begum Zeenat Mahal, Queen of Delhi, portrait by the Illustrated London News, Sons of Bahadur Shah Zafar- Mirza Jawan Bakht (L) and Mirza Shah Abbas (R) in the 1860s, Emperor of India Bahadur Shah Zafar flanked by Crown Prince Mirza Fakhru on his right and the young Mirza Mughal on his left, Crown Prince Mirza Fakhru. Prince Jawan Bakht was the eldest son of the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam, who visited Lucknow in 1784 to ask Warren Hastings' help in freeing his father from the Mahrattas. According to a report submitted by Dr John Murray, the Medical Superintendent of Agra commissioned to study the epidemic, the disease had even in its early days claimed more lives than it usually did in Agra but the situation was not yet alarming. the 21st of May, 1856. With the birth of the son, Begum Zeenat Mahal consolidated her place in Zafars harem and began to look for ways to place her son on the throne of Delhi. I was two years younger than my brother Mirza Yavar Shah and six years older than my sister Naaz Bano, who died. The Emperor of India, as the Mughal Emperor was referred to then, was often found beseeching the rich traders of Chandni Chowk for loans to support his extravagances! By the end of 1853, all the three people who had signed the Letter of Succession of Mirza Fakhru were dead, under mysterious circumstances. The timeline matched, as cholera had struck Karbala after the outbreak in Agra, and since Karbala received plenty of Shia pilgrims from India every year, some of them had probably carried the disease with them. Husband of Sirchuk Nur Begum and Shams un-nisa Begum. Their son, Mirza Jamshed Bakht (born about the same year as Tagore) went on to get an English education at the Diocesan School and Rangoon College and turned out to The Ricketts were 19th-century photography experts from Britain. He was overthrown after the Third Battle of Panipat by Prince Mirza Jawan Bakht. These photos from India were exhibited in London from October 11 to December 15, 2001. The pain was so excruciating that his days were now spent in bed, and he was subjected to heavy doses of morphine and other painkillers. He was a favorite and able son of Hazrat Bahadur Shah. My name is Sultan Bano. In June 1856, when Agra was reeling under cholera, there was a heavy downpour in Delhi which submerged large portions of the capital. , , #MeToo 3 , , , ABP , 3 , Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. In Delhi where the Covid-19 graph is currently trending sharply upward it was an epidemic that helped end the Mughal Empire, over 150 years ago. Shah Alam II's absence from Delhi was due to the terms of the treaty he had signed with the British. In 1856, one such cholera outbreak swept the plains of North India. He tweets at @shashank109. There was only one problem Mirza Jawan Bakht was Zafars fifteenth son and had no immediate claim to his throne. Eventually, Jamshed Bakht had two sons, Mirza Sikandar and Bedar Bakht Image of Mirza Shah Abbas falsely shared as Akbar - Alt News Historic Images / Alamy Stock Photo. Discover (and save!) By August of that year, 22,014 had been afflicted by cholera, including 8,514 who had succumbed to the disease. It was the last grand Mughal wedding on 2 nd April 1852 that of Badshah Bahadur Shah Zafars son Jawan Bakht by his favourite and youngest wife Zeenat Mahal to Nawab Shah Zamani Begum. This death sparked a series of conspiracy theories, tales of palace intrigue, and rumours of a bloody fight for a crown and a title that would soon be extinct. It was now clear that the disease had made its way into the sanitised and civilised area, home to most Europeans in the city. Within a year of the marriage, Begum Zeenat Mahal gave birth to a son, Zafars 15th child, who was given the name, Mirza Jawan Bakht. My father Mirza Kavaish Bahadur (he was appointed the Crown Prince by the British in 1856, over the claims of Zeenat Mahal's son Mirza Jawan Bakht). Later in the evening, Mirza Fakhru slipped into unconsciousness. On the other hand, Mirza Jawan Bakhsh had only one son named Mirza Jamshed Bakhsh. The Cholera Epidemic of 1856 The Beginning. Not only was the administration unable to stop its march, crowded living spaces, lack of sanitation and hygiene, and a tropical, humid climate encouraged the bacteria to breed and spread, leading to frequent outbreaks to in different regions of India at different times. Ralph Russell, The Oxford India Ghalib, 2003 "The epilogue, in the form of a prothalamion on the marriage of the poet's sister Cecilia, was designed to bring the work to an optimistic close." It is to be noted that Akbar was born in 1542 and died in 1605, whereas his Mirza Shah Abbas was born in 1845 and died in 1910. He was third in line to the throne of Emperor of India. prothalamion from Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day on Podchaser, aired Sunday, 14th February 2021. Mirza Jawan Bakht died in exile too, in his early forties, in 1884. This image is a public domain image, which means either that copyright has expired in the image or the copyright holder has waived their copyright. But his son and heir apparent Prince Mirza Jawan Bakht and Najib-ul-Daula, represented the emperor for the next 12 years in Delhi. Shahzada Mirza Jawan Bakht Bahadur alternative spelling Mirza Javan Bakht, Mirza Jewan Bakht also known as Mirza Jahandar Shah born at the Red Fort, Delhi. But Mirza Fakhru was still alive. In his extensively researched work, A History of Asiatic Cholera, Dr Nottidge Charles MacNamara, a former Surgeon-General of the erstwhile Indian Medical Service, attempted to draw parallels between the cholera epidemic in Karbala in Iran, at around the same time, and the one that had originated in Agra. His daughter, Emily Metcalfe recorded in her diary that her father had indeed been poisoned, most probably by poison of vegetable origin and prepared in a way as to leave no trace behind them. Media in category "Mirza Jawan Bakht" The following 2 files are in this category, out of 2 total. Having toppled her rival Taj Mahal Begum from the position of favourite wife and provided a son in the shape of Mirza Jawan Bakht, she worked single-mindedly to have her sonthe fifteenth of Zafars sixteen boysdeclared heir apparent. Mirza Jawan Bakht was the son of his favourite wife Zeenat Mahal and Mirza Shah Abbas was his illegitimate son by a concubine. In the morning of the following day, as the sun rose over Delhi, Murshidzada-e- Jahaniyan Mirza Fatah-ul-Mulk Shah Bahadur, the shining star of the Mughal household, set forever. But his son and heir apparent Prince Mirza Jawan Bakht and Najib-ul-Daula, represented the emperor for the next 12 years in Delhi. A highly communicable and water-borne disease caused by the bacteria vibrio cholera, cholera had been endemic to Asia for a few centuries before it first assumed pandemic proportions. He was the eldest son of Emperor Shah Alam II and the grandson of Emperor Alamgir II, Jawan Bakht was a very influential Timurid Prince of the Mughal Empire. Still hoping to see her son succeed to the Mughal throne, Begum Zeenat Mahal threw in her lot with the Indian fighters. There were only 2 Young Survived sons. In the evening, the senior-most physician of the Mughal household, Hakim Ahsanullah Khan (the same man who had boasted of his poison-making abilities to Harriet Tytler) arrived, but he too failed to improve the health of Mirza Fakhru. On 29th September 1837, when Bahadur Shah Zafar ascended the throne, his eldest son, Mirza Dara Bakht was recognised as the Crown Prince by the British. With the birth of the son, Begum Zeenat Mahal consolidated her place in Zafars harem and began to look for By afternoon that day, his condition worsened. Therefore, this cannot be a picture of the Mughal king. Dr Murray later recorded in his report that due to lack of options available to isolate prisoners, the huge lawns of monuments such as Secundra (Akbars Tomb) and even the Taj Mahal were used to set up camps where prison inmates could be quarantined. A News18 Hindi article dated October 24, 2018, shared it as a photo of Bahadur Shah Zafars son. The British and the princely states fought hard to contain them but, often, their measures proved inadequate. Thus, when the Agra cholera penetrated Delhi, its spread was swift. Cholera outbreaks were frequent in India in the 19th and 20th centuries. His death did not raise suspicions as it was not uncommon for young people to die of illnesses in those days, and also because his death did not have any major political repercussions. Each day, Live History India brings you stories and films that not only chronicle Indias history and heritage for you, but also help create a digital archive of the 'Stories that make India' for future generations. They are forced to live in the stinking slums of unpaved streets. The winds of change continued to sweep Delhi. This didnt seem to help because, on the 16th of June, the disease swept through the inmates housed at Secundra, leaving the administration at a complete loss. However, the author also cautioned, due to lack of evidence, a causal link could not be established. Eventually, Metcalfe passed away on 3rd November 1853, convinced that he had been poisoned. The photo has been going viral on Twitter and Facebook. We conducted further research into Mirza Shah and found this picture on Wikipedia as well. Last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah II with sons Mirza Jawan Bakht & Mirza Shah Abbas.jpg 421 480; 65 KB Letter given by Sir Charles Metcalfe to Bahadur Shah Zafar, Indian Museum, Kolkata.jpg 2,204 3,920; 1.61 MB ..! My father Mirza Kavaish Bahadur (he was appointed the Crown Prince by the British in 1856, over the claims of Zeenat Mahals son Mirza Jawan Bakht). But the Crown Princes condition deteriorated and he began to vomit violently. Last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah II with sons Mirza Jawan Bakht 26 Mirza Shah Abbas. A woman of grit but no luck, she did her Queenly and courtly best to secure the throne for her only son, Mirza Jawan Bakht, in preference to Zafars two older sons by his previous marriages. But Fate was against her, as was Fates living representative the British She quickly replaced Taj Mahal Begum as Zafars favourite wife, and bore him a son, Mirza Jawan Bakht, onto whom she transferred all her hopes of preservation in a dying Empire. [Update: Mirza Shah Abbas was referred to as Akbars grandson in the story. They began collecting photographs of 19th-century India in 1972. On 11th May 1857, the British East India Company sepoys who had rebelled in Meerut the night before, marched into Delhi and declared Bahadur Shah Zafar as the titular head of India. In the 19th century, Delhi was for all practical purposes a British colony. Soon, Zafar was writing petitions to the East India Company, in favour of Zeenat Mahals son, Mirza Jawan Bakhts claim to the post of Crown Prince. Tytler recorded this conversation in her fascinating memoirs, An Englishwoman In India: The Memoirs of Harriet Tytler, 1828-1858.