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Aziz-ud-din Alamgir II (6 June 1699 – 29 November 1759), (عالمگير ثانی) was the Mughal Emperor of India from 3 June 1754 to 29 November 1759. He was the son of Jahandar Shah. Aziz-ud-Din, the second son of Jahandar Shah, was raised to the throne by Imad-ul-Mulk after he deposed Ahmad Shah Bahadur in 1754. On ascending the throne, he took the title of Alamgir and tried to follow the approach of Aurangzeb Alamgir. At the time of his accession to throne he was an old man of 55 years. He had no experience of administration and warfare as he had spent most of his life in jail. He was a weak ruler, with all powers vested in the hand of his Wazir, Ghazi-ud-Din Imad-ul-Mulk. In 1756, Ahmad Shah Abdali invaded India once again and captured Delhi and plundered Mathura. Marathas became more powerful because of their collaboration with Imad-ul-Mulk, and dominated the whole of northern India. This was the peak of Maratha expansion, which caused great trouble for the Mughal Empire, already weak with no strong ruler. The relations between Alamgir II and the usurping Vizier, Imad-ul-Mulk, by this time had gotten worse. Alamgir II was murdered by Imad-ul-Mulk and the Maratha leader Sadashivrao Bhau. Alamgir II's son Ali Gauhar escaped persecution from Delhi, while Shah Jahan III was placed on the throne. ==Early life and succession to the throne== ''Aziz-ud-Din Beg Mirza'' (Alamgir II) was born on 6 June 1699 at Multan and was the second son of Maaz-ud-Din, son of future Emperor Bahadur Shah I. Alamgir II was seven years old when his great-grandfather Aurangzeb died in the Deccan during a campaign fighting the Marathas. After the death of his grandfather Bahadur Shah I and the war of succession that followed his father Maaz-ud-Din was defeated the next Mughal Emperor Farrukhsiyar. Aziz-ud-Din was then imprisoned in 1714 and released 1754, by the usurping Vizier Imad-ul-Mulk, he perceived Aziz-ud-Din as a frail personality who would not object his regime. Therefore, on 2 June 1754, Aziz-ud-Din was given the title ''Alamgir II'' by the Wazir out of his own recommendation, for he wanted to follow the centralized approach of Aurangzeb. The Vizier Imad-ul-Mulk was clearly a man of no principles and was commonly criticized for his extreme selfishness. he hired Maratha mercenaries to do his bidding〔http://www.emotional-literacy-education.com/classic-books-online-a/tfmeh10.htm〕 and put all the imperial revenues into his own pocket and starved the Alamgir II's family. He persecuted Ali Gauhar, the elder son of the Mughal Emperor Alamgir II. Since then the relations between Alamgir II and Imad-ul-Mulk's regime were not satisfactory and the latter got him assassinated in November 1759. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alamgir II」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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