ʿImād ul-Mulk Ghāzī-ud-Dīn

…throne by the imperial vizier Imad al-Mulk Ghazi al-Din, who had deposed his predecessor. Provoked by the vizier’s attempt to reassert control over the Punjab, the Afghan ruler Ahmad Shah Durrani had his agents occupy Delhi in January 1757, which was at the time “absolutely without a single defender or…

…was deposed by his vizier, ʿImād al-Mulk. ʿĀlamgīr II (ruled 1754–59), the next emperor, was assassinated, also by the vizier, who now proclaimed Prince Muḥī al-Millat, a grandson of Kām Bakhsh, as emperor under the title of Shah Jahān III (November 1759); he was soon replaced by ʿĀlamgīr II’s son…