Background
He was son of rebel Muhammad Akbar, son of Aurangzeb and was brought up in a harem in Agra.
He was son of rebel Muhammad Akbar, son of Aurangzeb and was brought up in a harem in Agra.
He had been in prison from 1681 to 1719 and initiated a war to seize the throne in 1719. The local Minister Birbal (not the Birbal of Akbar"s fame) used him as puppet and proclaimed him emperor, but since the prince had spent his life inside harem and talked like a catamite, he was laughingly ignored and again put in jail by the Syed Brothers. He died in 1723 at age of 43.
On 18 May 1719, the local governor of Agra.
Birbal, brought out Prince Nekusiyar from his harem prison and, in order to enhance his own powers, proclaimed him Emperor of India at Agra Fort. Nekusiyar was arrested on 13 August 1719 and again placed in his old harem prison at Agra.
However, soon after, he was shifted to Salimgarh in Delhi where he died on 12 April 1723 at the age of 43.