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Rafi ud-Darajat

Brief Mughal emperor in 1719

Field	Value
name	Rafi-ud-Darajat
title	Padishah
Al-Sultan Al-Azam
image	Rafi-ud-darjat.jpg
caption	Portrait of Rafi ud-Darajat
succession	Mughal Emperor
reign	28 February – 6 June 1719
predecessor	Farrukhsiyar
successor	Shah Jahan II
spouse	Inayat Banu Begum
full name	Mirza Abu'l Barakat Shams-ud-Din Muhammad Rafi ud-Darajat Padshah Ghazi Shahanshah-i-Bahr-u-Bar
house	Mughal dynasty
father	Rafi-ush-Shan
mother	Nur-un-Nisa Begum
birth_date
birth_place	Mughal Empire
death_date
death_place	Agra, Mughal Empire
place of burial	Mausoleum of Khwaja Qutbuddin Kaki, Delhi, India
religion	Sunni Islam (Hanafi)
dynasty	Timurid dynasty

Al-Sultan Al-Azam

Mirza Rafi ud-Darajat (, ); 1 December 1699 – 6 June 1719) was briefly the Eleventh Mughal emperor. He was the youngest son of Rafi-ush-Shan, the nephew of Azim-ush-Shan and a grandson of Bahadur Shah I.

He was placed on the throne by the Sayyid brothers after they deposed, blinded, imprisoned and executed emperor Farrukhsiyar with the help of Maharaja Ajit Singh and the Marathas in 1719.

Reign

Sayyid Brothers

Rafi ud-Darajat owed his throne to the Sayyid brothers - Sayyid Hassan Ali Khan Barha and Sayyid Hussain Ali Khan Barha - who had deposed emperor Farrukhsiyar with the help of Ajit Singh of Marwar and Balaji Vishwanath in 1719 and made themselves badishahgar (kingmakers). His short reign would be as a puppet ruler to the brothers.

Marathas

Having been helped by the Marathas in his accession, Rafi ud-Darajat returned the favour by granting Chauth and Sardeshmukhi rights in 6 Mughal provinces to them. The condition was that these would be collected by Mughal officials and handed to the Marathas.

Rival claim to throne

The reign of Rafi ud-Darajat was one of turbulence. On 18 May 1719, less than three months after his own accession, Rafi ud-Darajat's uncle, Nekusiyar, assumed the Mughal throne at the Agra Fort as he thought he was more eligible for the post.

The Sayyid brothers determined to defend the emperor they had raised to the throne and punish the offender retook the fort within three months and captured Nekusiyar. He would be respectfully received by the Amir ul-Umara and confined at the Salimgarh Fort where he died in 1723.

Death and succession

Before dying, Rafi ud-Darajat had requested that his older brother Rafi ud-Daulah be enthroned. Rafi ud-Darajat died on 6 June 1719, either of tuberculosis or was murdered, serving as emperor for three months and six days. He was succeeded by Rafi ud-Daulah as emperor Shah Jahan II two days later. His remains were interred near the shrine of Sufi saint Khawaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki at Mehrauli in Delhi.

Ancestry

References

(1958). "Mohammad Yasin". Upper India Publishing House.
Krishna S. Dhir. (2022). "The Wonder That Is Urdu". Motilal Banarsidass.
(1958). "Mohammad Yasin". Upper India Publishing House.
Krishna S. Dhir. (2022). "The Wonder That Is Urdu". Motilal Banarsidass.
Mehta, Jaswant Lal. (2005). "Advanced Study in the History of Modern India: 1707 - 1813". New Dawn Press.

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