shadow-kings

Updated: July 27, 2025

But there was a Nothing still more absolute than any they could find; and after two of these shadow-kings had passed in about seven months, one after the other, into the grave, the usurpers were at length constrained to make a choice of a more efficient puppet. This was the son of Bahadur Shah's youngest son, who had perished in the wars which followed that emperor's demise.

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