Aurangzeb was last illustrious king of Mughal Empire The Mughal Emperors who succeeded him were known as later Mughal. Aurangzeb died of 1707 AD and he was succeeded by his son prince Muazzam who sat of the throne with the Title Bahadur Shah-1 Aurangzib's children -Rajput States-Mewar, Amber, Jodhpur ; early life of Ajit Singh, Bahadur Shah marches to Rajputana, defeat and death of Kam Bakhsh, Sayyid Husain Khan slain, Guru Govind's innovations, Sikh population, Bahadur Shah's last illness, Position and conduct of Bahadur Shah's four sons at his death, Zulfiqar forms alliance of three Princes against Azim-ush-shan, Jahan Shah killed, Jahandtur enthroned, Prince Md. Karim killed, Farrukh-siyar advances to Allahabad, battle of Agra, Farrukh-siyar, Jahandar Shah killed, Churaman Jat's rising, Rafi-ud- darjat crowned, conduct of Sayyids to Farrukh-siyar criticized, Rafi-ud- darjat and Rafi-ud-daulah.

William Irvine (1840-1911) was an administrator of the Indian Civil Service and historian, known for works on the Moghul Empire. He was in British India from 1863 to 1889. Leaving a private school before he was 15, he served a short apprenticeship to business, and after spending some years as a clerk in the admiralty passed for the Indian Civil Service. He landed in Calcutta late in 1863, and was posted to the North-Western Provinces. He served there as a Magistrate and Collector until he retired and left India in 1889. He was employed for eight years in revising the rent and revenue settlement records of the Ghazipur district.

If this book cannot claim in the highest sense of the word the name of History, it is at least the result of some research and labour, things sadly required in Indian history as a preparatory clearing of the ground for more ambitious work. To me this heavy task has been its own exceeding great reward (the only one, I fear, ever likely to come to me); it has served to bridge over the period between active life and the first advances of old age, and through it I have failed to "feel the weight of too much liberty". At some future day the genius may arise who shall make these dead bones live; and when in a foot-note this "Gibbon of the future" flings me a word of acknowledgment, I shall be satisfied. Meanwhile, the scenic artists, who deal in picturesque narrative and like to lay on the colours thick, may not disdain to appropriate something from my sober pages as a background for their adjectives: while the official gazetteer-maker and the compiler of little books will be able to fill up many a meagre outline and correct much erroneous chronology. Some writer, if I remember rightly, complains that Indian historians are chary of dates; if he will open my work, he will find out how wide this is of the truth. In fact he will, I fear, receive a surfeit of dates, many more, at any rate, than he will care to digest.

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