Neku Siyar

Mirza Muhammad Nikusiyar, also known as Timur II was a claimant to the throne of India.[1] He had been in prison from 1681 to 1719 and initiated a war to seize the throne in 1719. He was son of rebel Muhammad Akbar,[2] grandson of Aurangzeb[3][4][5] and was brought up in a harem in Agra. In 1695, at the age of 16, he was appointed as subedar of Assam until 1701. In 1702, the Prince was appointed subedar of Sindh by Aurangzeb, where he served until 1707.[6]

Nikusiyar
نیکوسیار
titular Padishah
Timur II
Titular Mughal Emperor
Reign18 May 1719  – 13 August 1719
SuccessorShah Jahan II
RegentBirbal of 18th-Century
Subahdar of Assam
Reignc. 1695 – 1701
Subahdar of Sindh
Reignc. 1702 – 1707
BornMirza Muhammad Nikusiyar
before 6 October 1679
Mughal Empire
Died(1723-04-12)12 April 1723
Mughal Empire Salimgarh Delhi
Burial
Mausoleum of Qutb-ud-Din Kaki, Delhi
Names
Mirza Muhammad Nekusiyar Timur II ibn Mirza Muhammad Akbar
Regnal name
Timur II
HouseHouse of Babur
Dynasty Timurid dynasty
FatherMuhammad Akbar
MotherSalima Banu Begum
ReligionSunni Islam (Hanafi)

The local Minister Birbal (not the Birbal of Akbar's fame) used him as puppet and proclaimed him emperor, but since the prince had spent his life inside harem and talked like a catamite, he was laughingly ignored and again put in jail by the Syed Brothers.[7] Neku Siyar died in 1723 aged 43.[8]

War of Succession and fate

On 18 May 1719, the local governor of Agra; Birbal, brought out Prince Nekusiyar from his harem prison and, in order to enhance his own powers, proclaimed him Emperor of India at Agra Fort.[9]

However, an ambition so grand could not be accomplished, and the Syed Brothers defeated both Nekuseyar and Birbal by June and deposed both of them from their former posts.

Nekusiyar was arrested on 13 August 1719, and again placed in his old harem prison at Agra.[10] However, soon after, he was moved to Salimgarh in Delhi. Siyar died in Persia[11] on 12 April 1723 at the age of 43.[12]

Ancestry


References
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