(b. June 6, 1699, Multan [now in Pakistan]; d. Nov. 29, 1759, Delhi), in full Aziz-ud-Din Alamgir II , Mughal emperor of India, a weak man with little regard for his subjects' -welfare. The son of Emperor Jahandar Shah (reigned 1712?13), Alamgir was placed on the throne by the imperial vizier (wazir) Imad ul-Mulk Ghazi-ud-Din, who had -deposed his predecessor. On ascending the throne, he took the title of Alamgir II and tried to follow the approach of Aurangzeb Alamgir. Provoked by the vizier's attempt to reassert control over the Punjab, the Afghan ruler Ahmad Shah Durrani had his agents occupy an "unprotected" Delhi in January 1757. After the city was secured, Alamgir was confirmed emperor of Hindustan but in name only . He was in effect Ahmad Shah's puppet. Threatened in 1759 with another Afghan invasion and the possibility of Alamgir's being captured and used against him, Ghazi-ud-Din had the emperor murdered.
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