Later Mughals v1.c6.s28.19

v1.c6.s28.19

(9) Humayun Bakht. The year of his birth is not specified, but it must have been before 1117, for he died in prison at Dihli on the 27th Rajab 1157, being then over forty years of age (Tarikh-i-Mhdi). His mother was Aisha Begam daughter of Ruhullah Kh. I. (Warid 150b). He was blinded by the order of the Emperor Farrukh-siyar, his own brother, at the instigation, it is said, of the favourite, Mir Jumla. (Warid, p. 131). Khafi Khan (ii. 740) describes him as not more than ten or eleven years old in 1126 H. when he was blinded. But his first mansab of 8,000 (3,000 horse) was given him by Bahadur Shah on the 21st Rabi II. 1120 (Bahadur, 123) and he was then most probably 11 or 12 years of age, being the age at which a mansab was generally conferred on a Prince. Under 1130 H. Mirza Mhd. has an entry which contradicts that of 1157 H. and I am unable to reconcile them unless it be that there is a mistake of name in one or the other,—"1130 H., Prince Mhd. Humayun Bakht, son of Shah Azim-ush-shan Bahadur, son of Shah Alam, died in the day of the 3rd Rabi II. or during the night of the 4th, age 16 years."