Dara Shikoh
20 March 1615 — 30 August 1659
Dara Shikoh, also transliterated as Dara Shukoh, was the eldest son and heir-apparent of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. Dara was designated with the title Padshahzada-i-Buzurg Martaba and was favoured as a successor by his father and his elder sister, Princess Jahanara Begum. He had been given the title of 'Shah-e-Buland Iqbal' by Shah Jahan. In the war of succession which ensued after Shah Jahan's illness in 1657, Dara was defeated by his younger brother Prince Muhiuddin. He was executed in 1659 on Aurangzeb's orders after a bitter struggle for the imperial throne.
Family
Rests in the family mausoleum of the Mughal Dynasty. Mughal Dynasty family tree
- Parents: Shah Jahan, Mumtaz Mahal
- Siblings: Jahanara Begum, Aurangzeb
A family burial site on Digital Cemetery, an endless map you can explore. It stands at coordinates 21, 1.
More historical figures on Digital Cemetery:
- Alessandro Scarlatti
- Garrincha
- John Franklin
- Albrecht von Haller
- Nikolaas Tinbergen
- John Steinbeck
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Giuseppe Garibaldi
- Louis the German
- Mary of Teck
- Vasily Grossman
- Alvar Aalto
- Che Guevara
- Franz Joseph I of Austria
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Henrietta Swan Leavitt
- Éric Rohmer
- Anders Celsius
- Pierre de Ronsard
- Scott Joplin
- William Pitt the Younger
- J. B. S. Haldane
- James Clerk Maxwell
- Élie Metchnikoff