Jorge Flores, Sanjay Subrahmanyam. « The Shadow Sultan: Succession and Imposture in the Mughal Empire, 1628-1640 ». Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 47/1 (2004), pp. 80-121.
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The authors trace the cloak-and-dagger-like career of the mysterious Sultan Dawar Bakhsh, or Bulaqi (Bulaghi), who pretended to be the son of Sultan Jahangir, and as such claimed the Mughal throne. According to some sources, he had perished in 1628 as part of the execution of multiple princes, but others claim that he survived and managed to escape the turmoil surrounding the succession of Jahangir. Whatever the truth of the story, in later years a person calling himself Bulaghi and claiming ...
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The authors trace the cloak-and-dagger-like career of the mysterious Sultan Dawar Bakhsh, or Bulaqi (Bulaghi), who pretended to be the son of Sultan Jahangir, and as such claimed the Mughal throne. According to some sources, he had perished in 1628 as part of the execution of multiple princes, but others claim that he survived and managed to escape the turmoil surrounding the succession of Jahangir. Whatever the truth of the story, in later years a person calling himself Bulaghi and claiming ...
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