Jahan Shah (Mughal Emperor)

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Bidar Bakht Mahmud Shah Bahadur (Persian: بیدار بخت محمود شاه بهادر, also known by his regnal name Jahan Shah (Persian: جهان شاه), was the eighteenth Mughal emperor for a brief period in 1788 after Shah Alam II was deposed by Ghulam Kadir, Mahmud Shah Bahadur was the son of a former Mughal Emperor, Ahmad Shah Bahadur. He himself became emperor for a brief period in 1788 as a puppet of Ghulam Kadir, after Shah Alam II had been deposed and blinded. He was allegedly put to death in 1790 by order of Shah Alam II, supposedly for usurping his authority in 1788.

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