Editing Akbar II (section)

{{short description|Emperor of India from 1806 to 1837}}
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{{Infobox royalty
| name         = Akbar II
| title        = King of Delhi<br/> [[Padishah|Badshah]]<br />[[Mughal emperor|Shahanshah-e-Hind]]
| image        = Akbar Shah II of India.jpg
| caption      = Portrait of Akbar Shah II, {{circa|1827}}
| succession   = [[Mughal Emperor]]
| reign        = 19 November 1806 – 28 September 1837
| coronation   = 19 November 1806
| predecessor  = [[Shah Alam II]]
| successor    = [[Bahadur Shah II]]
| birth_name   = Mirza Akbar
| birth_date   = {{Birth date|1760|04|22|df=yes}}
| birth_place  = [[Mukundpur]], [[Rewa (princely state)|Rewa State]], [[Maratha Confederacy]]
| death_date   = {{Death date and age|1837|09|28|1760|04|22|df=yes}}
| death_place  = Delhi, [[Mughal Empire]]
| spouse       = Mumtaz Mahal<ref name="Majumdar1939">{{cite book | editor = Jatindra Kumar Majumdar | date = 1939 | title = Raja Rammohun Roy and the Last Moghuls: A Selection from Official Records, 1803–1859 | publisher = Art Press | pages = xxxiii| isbn = 9788170410645}}</ref><br>Anwar Mahal<ref name="Congress1958">{{cite book | author = Indian History Congress | date = 1958 | title = Proceedings, Volume 20 | publisher = Indian History Congress | pages = 316}}</ref><br>Lal Bai<ref name="Husain2006">{{cite book | author = Syed Mahdi Husain | date = 2006 | title = Bahadur Shah Zafar and the War of 1857 in Delhi | publisher = Aakar Books | pages = 36 | isbn = 9788187879916}}</ref>
| issue        = 14 sons including 
Mirza Firuz Bakht <br/>[[Bahadur Shah Zafar|Bahadur Shah II]]<br/> Mirza Buland Bakht <br/>
[[Mirza Jahangir]]<br/>[[Mirza Jahan Shah]]<br/>[[Mirza Nali]]<br>[[Mirza Babur]]<br/>[[Mirza Salim]]<br/>[[Mirza Nazim Shah]]<br/>Mirza Jahan Khushru<ref name="GREAT ESCAPE OF MIRZA JAHAN KHUSRO SON OF AKBAR SANI – HAJI MUHAMMED ISHAQUE DESCENDANT OF GREAT MUGHALS"> {{cite web| url=http://blog.chughtaimuseum.com/?p=10834| title=GREAT ESCAPE OF MIRZA JAHAN KHUSRO SON OF AKBAR SANI – HAJI MUHAMMED ISHAQUE DESCENDANT OF GREAT MUGHALS| date=15 April 2020}}</ref>
<br/>8 daughters
| full name    = Sultan Ibn Sultan Sahib al-Mufazi Wali Ni'mat Haqiqi Khudavand Mujazi Abu Nasir Mu'in al-Din Muhammad Akbar Shah Pad-Shah Ghazi
| father       = [[Shah Alam II]]
| mother       = Qudsia Begum
| signature    = Seal of Mughal emperor Akbar Shah II.jpg
| signature_type = Seal
| religion     = [[Sunni Islam]] {{small|([[Hanafi]])}}
| dynasty      = [[Timurid dynasty]]
| era dates    = 18th and 19th centuries
| regnal name  = Akbar Shah II
| house        = [[Mughal dynasty|House of Babur]]
| burial_place = [[Moti Masjid (Mehrauli)|Moti Masjid]], Delhi, India
}}
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'''Akbar II''' ({{IPA|fa|ak.baɾ}}; 22 April 1760 – 28 September 1837), also known as '''Akbar Shah II''', was the nineteenth [[Mughal emperors|Mughal emperor]] from 1806 to 1837. He was the second son of [[Shah Alam II]] and the father of [[Bahadur Shah II]], who would eventually succeed him and become the last Mughal emperor.

Akbar had little de facto power due to the increasing British influence in India through the [[East India Company]]. He sent [[Ram Mohan Roy]] as an ambassador to Britain and gave him the title of Raja. During his regime, in 1835, the East India Company discontinued calling itself subject of the Mughal Emperor and [[Khutba wa sikka|issuing coins in his name]]. The Persian lines in the company's coins to this effect were deleted.

Akbar II was credited with starting the [[Hindu–Muslim unity]] festival [[Phool Walon Ki Sair]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dec 8 |first1=TNN / |title=Akbar, Dara Shikoh had set examples of Hindu-Muslim unity {{!}} Varanasi News – Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/varanasi/akbar-dara-shikoh-had-set-examples-of-hindu-muslim-unity/articleshow/17526760.cms |website=The Times of India |date=8 December 2012 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Akbar and his religious policy |url=http://www.ijssh.org/vol6/660-B00018.pdf}}</ref> His grave lies next to the [[dargah]] of 13th-century Sufi saint [[Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki]] at [[Mehrauli]].