Prince Shahryar was the fifth and youngest son of the Mughal emperor Jahangir.
Background
After Jahangir"s death, Shahryar made an attempt to become emperor and was successful with the help of his powerful stepmother Nur Jehan, who was also his mother-in-law. Sheharyar was born a few months before his grandfather Akbar"s death (in 1605) to one of Jahangir"s imperial concubine, whose name was Yasmina". In the 16th year of Jahangir"s reign, Shahryar married Mehrunnisa"s Daughter, also known as Ladli Begum, the daughter of his own step-mother Nur Jahan, by her first marriage to Sher Afghan.
Career
Shahryar and Ladli had a daughter Arzani Begum. At Nur Jahan request, he was given the pargana of Dholpur and its fort from Jahangir which Prince Khurram wanted for himself. He appointed Daria Khan, an Afghan, as its in-charge.
This led to a skirmish between Nur Jahan"s appointed in-charge Sharifu-l-Mulk, who was a servant of both Shahryar and Daria Khan.
Sharifu-l-Mulk arrived on the scene shortly, and tried to force himself into the fort. On October 13. 1625, Jahangir appointed Shahryar as Governor of Thatta.
Sharif-ul Mulk carried out the administration as the Deputy of the Prince. After the death of his father Jahangir on October 28, 1627, Shahryar ascended to the Mughal throne, as Nur Jahan desired.
Since he was in Lahore at the time, he immediately took over the imperial treasury and distributed over 70 lac rupees amongst old and new noble men to secure his throne.
Meanwhile, Mirza Baisinghar, son of the late Prince Daniyal, on the death of the Emperor, fled to Lahore, and joined Shahryar. lieutenant is said that he also had a form of leprosy due to which he had lost all his hair including his eyebrows and eyelashes. Like all Mughal princes, Shahryar too had training in poetry and after he was blinded towards the end of his life, he wrote a poignant verse titled, Bi Gu Kur Shud didah-i-Aftab.
After his death, all the brothers of Shah Jahan were now dead, and he ruled the empire till 1658.
Asaf Khan, was made the prime minister of Mughal Empire, and Nur Jahan, with an annual pension of two lakh and spent the rest of her days, confined in her palace in Lahore, along with Ladli Begum, the widow of Shahryar. Nur Jahan died in 1645 at age 68.
