Royalty - Prince Dara Shikoh portrait - Mughal India c.1631- postcard

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• Picture / Image:  Portrait of Prince Dara Shikoh attributed to the artist Murar c.1631-32
• Publisher:  The British Library, 2012
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Dara Shikoh (Urdu: ???? ??????), (Persian: ???? ???? ?) M 20 March 1615 – 30 August 1659) was the eldest son and the heir apparent of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and his wife Mumtaz Mahal. His name ???? ???? in Persian means ""possessing such magnificence as Darius's"". He was favoured as a successor by his father and his sister Princess Jahanara Begum Sahib, but was defeated by his younger brother Prince Muhiuddin (later the Emperor Aurangzeb) in a bitter struggle for the imperial throne. The course of the history of the Indian subcontinent, had Dara prevailed over Aurangzeb, has been a matter of some conjecture among historians.^[1][2][3]

Dara was born near Ajmer on 20 March 1615, the eldest son of Prince Shahab ud-din Muhammad Khurram (Shah Jahan) and his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal. When he was 12, his grandfather, Emperor Jahangir, died, and his father succeeded as emperor.

On 11 February 1633, Dara married his first cousin, Nadira Begum Sahiba, the daughter of his paternal uncle Sultan Parvez Mirza (1590–1626). They had seven children, of whom two sons and two daughters survived to adulthood.

As was common for all Mughal sons, Dara was appointed a military commander at an early age, receiving an appointment as commander of 12,000-foot and 6,000 horse in October 1633^[4] (roughly equivalent to a modern division commander or major general). He received successive promotions, being promoted to commander of 12,000-foot and 7,000 horse on 20 March 1636 (roughly equivalent to lieutenant general), to 15,000-foot and 9,000 horse on 24 August 1637, to 10,000 horse on 19 March 1638, to 20,000-foot and 10,000 horse on 24 January 1639, and to 15,000 horse on 21 January 1642.^[5]

On 10 September 1642, Shah Jahan formally confirmed Dara as his heir, granting him the title of Shahzada-e-Buland Iqbal (""Prince of High Fortune"") and promoting him to command of 20,000-foot and 20,000 horse.^[6] In 1645, he was appointed as subadar (governor) of Allahabad. He was promoted to a command of 30,000-foot and 20,000 horse on 18 April 1648, and was appointed Governor of the province of Gujarat on 3 July.

As his father's health began to decline, Dara received a series of increasingly prominent commands. He was appointed Governor of Multan and Kabul on 16 August 1652, and was raised to the title of Shah-e-Buland Iqbal (""King of High Fortune"") on 15 February 1655.^[7] He was promoted to command of 40,000-foot and 20,000 horse on 21 January 1656, and to command of 50,000-foot and 40,000 horse on 16 September 1657 (roughly equivalent to general)

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