farokhsiar

Updated: May 26, 2025

Amad us-Saudat. A history of the Viceroys of Lucknow from the death of Farokhsiar to the accession of Saadat Ali II., in 1797. Jam-i-Jum. Genealogical tables of the House of Timur. Tasallat-i-Sahiban Anqriz. An account of the rise of British power in Hindustan and Bengal.

H. G. (Henry George) Keene - Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan

The British Governor-General also, naturally alarmed at what was going on, and foreseeing danger from the interposition of the Mahrattas, with whom his Government had, till lately, been engaged in a deadly conflict, soon after sent two officers to the Imperial Court, being the first English Embassy that had visited the city of the Moghul since the memorable deputation from the infant Factory to the throne of Farokhsiar.

H. G. (Henry George) Keene - Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan

After a few months, the aid of the governors of Bihar and Allahabad, Saiyids of the tribe of Barha, enabled the last remaining claimant to overthrow and murder the incapable Emperor. The conqueror succeeded his uncle under the title of FAROKHSIAR.

H. G. (Henry George) Keene - Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan

A number of natives soon began to settle here under the protection of the British; and when the Nawab, on this account, was desirous of sending a judicial officer to reside among them, the factors staved off the measure by means of a donation in money. The grant of land and permission of a formal kind for the fortifications followed in 1716 on Mr. Hamilton's cure of the Emperor Farokhsiar.

H. G. (Henry George) Keene - Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan