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Nekusiyar, eldest surviving son of Prince Muhammad Akbar, the 
fourth son of the Emperor ‘Alamglr, was born in Sha‘ban 1090 H. (Sep¬ 
tember, October 1679)b Eariy in Muharram 1092 H. (January 1681). 
Prince Akbar fled from his father’s camp, and joining the Pathors, 
laid claim to the throne. His property was at once confiscated by 
‘Alamglr, and his wife, two sons, Nekusiyar and Mhd. Asghar, and 
two daughters were made prisoners. A few days afterwards Prince 
Akbar’s family was sent off from Ajmer to Akbarabad. g Here 
Nekusiyar had been a state prisoner ever since, and although now 
over forty years of age had never set foot outside the fort. His 
ignorance is described, no doubt with some exaggeration, as so great 
that when he saw a cow or horse, he asked what sort of animal it was 
and what it was called. 1 * 3 
Accounts vary as to the part taken in the plot by Safi Khan, the 
displaced qila‘hdar. 4 Some describe him as a willing agent, or even 
the originator of in the conspiracy; others make him out to have 
acted under compulsion from the mutinous garrison. He had been 
transferred by the Sayyads from Kalinjar to Agrah only a short time 
before (17th Sha‘ban 1130H., 15th July, 1718), and in those few months 
could not have acquired such influence over the garrison as to induce it 
to follow him in such an ambitious undertaking. Moreover, he was by 
this time nearly seventy years of age and thus not very likely to be a 
willing sharer in such a revolt. Some say that among the men mixed 
1 His birth was reported to bis grandfather on the 1st Zu,l Qa‘dah 1090 H. (4th 
December, 1079), Ma,dsir-i~‘Alamgiri, 182. He was the third son. 
8 The wife and family were despatched on the 16th Muharram 1092 H. (5th 
February, 1681), Ma,dsir-i- ( Alamgzri 204. Another son, Buland Akhtar, and two 
daughters were born to Prince Akbar after his rebellion, and were left with the 
Rathors upon his flight to the Dakhin. The boy was surrendered to ‘Alamgir on 
the 20th Zu,l Qa'dah 1109 H. (30th May, 1698) by Durga. Das, Rathor, as a peace- 
offering: he died in prison at Ahmadnagar on the 29th Kabi ‘II, 1118 H. (9th August, 
1706) and was buried in the Bihisht Ba gh there, Ma,d$ir-i-‘ Alamgiri, 395, TdriJdi-i- 
Muhammadi , year 1118 H., and Kam Raj, ‘ Ibratndmah, fol. 69a, Bhim Sen, NusJchah- 
i-dilkushd, fol. 157b. 
3 Mddsir-i^Alamgm, 202, 203. 
4 Mirza ‘Abd-us-salam, first Mumin Khan, then Safi Khan, died early iu Rajab 
1137 H. (March 1725) at Dihli, aged over 70 years. He was son-in-law of his uncle, 
Ashraf Khan (d. 1097 H. f 1685-6). His brother, Islam Khan (Mir Ahmad, formerly 
Barkhurdar IQian) died in 1144 H. (1731-2) aged 77. Their father was Safi Khan 
(d. 1105 H., 1693-4), second son of # Islam Khan, Mashhadi, (Mir ‘Abd-us-salam) 
whose first title was Ikhtisas Khan, (d. 1057 H., 1647-8), Ma^dsir-ul-umard, I., 162- 
167, I. 272, II. 741, Tdrikh'i-Muhammad z, years 1057, 1097, 1105, 1137, 1144 H., 
Burhdn-ul-fatuh, 162 a, 167a, 
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