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Prince Khizar Sultan was among three Mughal princes who were executed by British General Hudson outside bloody gate, Delhi to terminate the Mughal Empire for forever. Prince Khizar Sultan was 9 th son of King Bahadur Shah Zafar who was born in 1834 from a cucubian consort Rahim Bakh Bai. Prince Khizar  fair color, out of the way beauty and livid attitude remarked him significant since childhood. 45 years old, Crown Prince Mirza Farrukh  kept his step brother Prince Khizar with him in most court duties. After the Doctrine of Lapse (where only legitimate son can heir the throne ) Khizar Sultan raised as short-tempered and annoyed. After the suspicious death of most favored crown Prince Mirza Farrukh , British allowed the eldest legitimate Prince Mirza Mughal to grab the same title in 1852. Prince Khizar Sultan was married to Mukarram at the age of 18, the same year. The incident of Mirza Mughal’s appointment annoyed Khizar Sultan to extent that he couldn’t c...

CROWN PRINCE MIRZA MUGHAL LIFE|COMMANDER IN CHIEF|DEATH BY BRITISH 1857 Mirza Mughal was among the three princes that were killed naked and helpless by General Hudson amid public on 23 September 1857. Mirza Mughal was a crown prince and commander in chief of the Mughal army during the war of independence in 1857. General Hudson shot Prince Mirza Mughal along with his brother Prince Khizar Sultan and son Prince Abu Bakar right in front of Khuni Darwaza (bloody door) in Shahjahanabad (Now Delhi).  Then General Hudson looted the swords, signet rings, precious turquoise diamond bracelets, and jeweled swords as booty from princes’ belongings and cut the heads of three heirs of Mughal Empire brutally. The heads were sent to King Bahadur Shah Zafar with the note of termination of the Mughal Empire. King Bahadur Shah was staying in Humayun's tomb after leaving Red Fort in the hope to seek patronage from the graves of his forefathers against the British at that time. The slain bodies of ...

CH # 12: THE MUGHAL ECLIPSE Tug of war between Mughals and freedom fighters ....‘You tell me what should I do first? These mutineers want me to fight in the battle. They want me to look for their wages and needs. Now, these administrative issues…every sepoy want to be an officer. If everyone will be officer then, who would be there to follow and advance in battle,’ Prince Mirza Mughal responded annoyed.   ‘Prince Abu Bakar, I told you some task?’ Crown Prince called his son.   ‘Aba huzoor I tried to make a list of sepoys based on seniority as you told but every soldier was claiming him the senior-most as no record is available with us. There is a bulk of reference letters at my table for a single post,’ Prince Abu Bakar explained.   ‘We’re doing our best to manage this war but these rebellion sepoys are much undisciplined. We should hire our loyal people on senior posts now,’ Crown Prince Moghal replied thoughtfully.    Just then, Niaz din and An...

CH# 9: THE MUGHAL ECLIPSE We're heirs of  Hindustan ....The weather was overwhelming since morning. Umer felt a soothing relief in his chest wound when someone put a medicated bandage on it. A familiar smell groped his nerves. He was still snoozing under herbal medicines and a servant was on duty to change his bandage but it was not him this time. Someone was examining and treating his wound very carefully. ‘Aaa...be careful…,’ he held servant’s hand on a nip feeling around his wound. The hand was soft and warm. He opened his eye with a bump in an eccentric sense. All his consciousness was working now. He left her hand at once. There was a liquid solution at the side table and she was dipping the cotton in it to clean his wound after he left her hand.        ‘This medicine is really good and effective. We brought it from England,’ Angeline again continued her work as soon as he left her hand plunged in amazement.   'What are you doing...