• Thumbnail for Dara Shikoh
    Dara Shikoh (20 March 1615 – 30 August 1659), also transliterated as Dara Shukoh, was the eldest son and heir-apparent of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan...
    47 KB (4,871 words) - 20:39, 4 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Dara Shikoh Garden
    Dara Shikoh Garden is a Mughal garden situated in Bijbehara. The garden comprises centuries-old Chinar trees planted by the Mughal emperors, brought from...
    1 KB (90 words) - 05:27, 10 December 2023
  • Dara Shikoh Road is the name given to a road in Central Delhi to honour mughal prince and heir apparent of Shah Jahan, Dara Shikoh. The road was earlier...
    6 KB (644 words) - 17:43, 2 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Guru Har Rai
    avoiding military conflict. He supported the moderate Sufi influenced Dara Shikoh instead of conservative Sunni influenced Aurangzeb as the two brothers...
    19 KB (2,171 words) - 07:45, 6 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Shah Jahan
    In September 1657, Shah Jahan was ailing and appointed his eldest son Dara Shikoh as his successor. This nomination led to a succession crisis among his...
    73 KB (7,847 words) - 00:34, 4 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Kashmiri Gate, Delhi
    lines converge at this station. A library established by Mughal prince Dara Shikoh, the elder brother of Emperor Aurangzeb, still exists in Kashmiri Gate...
    12 KB (1,190 words) - 09:24, 11 December 2024
  • Shikoh (Urdu: مُمتاز شِکوہ), (16 August 1643 – 6 December 1647[citation needed]) also known as Mumtaz Shukoh, was the third son of Mughal prince Dara...
    2 KB (31 words) - 12:14, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aurangzeb
    In September 1657, Shah Jahan nominated his eldest and liberalist son Dara Shikoh as his successor, a move repudiated by Aurangzeb, who proclaimed himself...
    180 KB (20,165 words) - 03:59, 1 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Sulaiman Shikoh
    Mirza Sulaiman Shikoh was a Mughal prince and the eldest son of Crown prince Dara Shikoh. He was executed in May 1662 at Gwalior Fort on the orders of...
    18 KB (2,027 words) - 15:25, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bawa Lal Dayal
    'McGill University PhD Thesis' Shikoh, Dara. Ḥasanāt al-ʼĀrifīn. p. 49. Shikoh, Dara. Ḥasanāt al-ʼĀrifīn. p. 55. Shikoh, Dara. Ḥasanāt al-ʼĀrifīn. p. 54....
    13 KB (1,389 words) - 02:19, 10 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Humayun's Tomb
    which houses the graves of Empress Bega Begum, Hajji Begum, and also Dara Shikoh, great-great-grandson of Humayun and son of the later Emperor Shah Jahan...
    55 KB (6,141 words) - 10:07, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sipihr Shikoh
    Crown Prince Dara Shikoh and his consort Nadira Banu Begum. Sipihr Shukoh was born on Thursday, 11 Shaban, 1054 (13 October 1644), to Dara Shukoh, and...
    11 KB (1,205 words) - 01:14, 4 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Jahanara Begum
    empire" at the time. Jahanara was an ardent partisan of her brother, Dara Shikoh, and supported him as her father's chosen successor. During the war of...
    38 KB (4,525 words) - 20:02, 4 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Din-i Ilahi
    to re-establish the Dīn-i Ilāhī was made by Shah Jahan's eldest son, Dara Shikoh, but any prospects of an official revival were halted by his brother...
    17 KB (1,806 words) - 14:13, 19 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Samugarh
    nobility of his father's empire. Dara Shikoh started the battle with cannonade, which continued for one hour. Dara's cavalry under Rustam then attacked...
    8 KB (812 words) - 15:21, 22 November 2024
  • dairy entrepreneur Dara Ó Briain (born 1972), Irish comedian and television presenter Dara Reneé, (born 2000), American actress Dara Shikoh, eldest son of...
    3 KB (442 words) - 09:53, 3 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jai Singh I
    Jahan's oldest and favorite son Dara Shikoh, a rival of Aurangzeb, and again Jai Singh was sent with this army. Dara Shikoh's campaign was marred by his military...
    13 KB (1,394 words) - 17:37, 22 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mumtaz Mahal
    Jahanara Begum (Shah Jahan's favorite daughter), and the Crown prince Dara Shikoh, the heir-apparent, anointed by his father, who temporarily succeeded...
    43 KB (4,278 words) - 18:01, 30 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Roshanara Begum
    part of the Roshanara Bagh. Of Roshanara's four brothers, the eldest, Dara Shikoh, was Shah Jahan's favourite son and heir apparent to the Peacock Throne...
    12 KB (1,469 words) - 05:50, 17 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Akal Sena
    Har Rai had deployed the army against Aurangzeb's troops in-support of Dara Shikoh. This is recorded in a Sikh source, the Mahimā Parkāsh Vārtak, which...
    37 KB (4,203 words) - 05:02, 21 December 2024
  • Dara Rolins, Slovak recording artist Dara Shikoh, Indian prince Dara Singh, Indian professional wrestler Dara Singh (Bajrang Dal), serial killer Dara...
    6 KB (602 words) - 00:18, 26 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of emperors of the Mughal Empire
    Shah Jahan's eldest son, the liberal Dara Shikoh, became regent in 1658, as a result of his father's illness. Dara championed a syncretistic Hindu-Muslim...
    31 KB (2,118 words) - 17:30, 28 December 2024
  • known for his wisdom and generosity. He was the master of Mughal Prince Dara Shikoh (A.D. 1650). Many people consider him a great darwesh. There is a Sheikh...
    2 KB (62 words) - 10:21, 20 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mughal war of succession (1658–1659)
    of succession fought between the four sons of Shah Jahan: Aurangzeb, Dara Shikoh, Murad Bakhsh, and Shah Shuja, in hopes of gaining the Mughal Throne...
    21 KB (2,536 words) - 03:39, 5 December 2024
  • Razia Sultan, a major turning point in his career. He also portrayed Dara Shikoh in the documentary series Bharatvarsh. He then portrayed Alexander in...
    14 KB (824 words) - 12:52, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nadira Banu Begum
    Crown Prince Dara Shikoh, the eldest son and heir-apparent of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. After Aurangzeb's rise to power, Dara Shikoh's immediate family...
    9 KB (904 words) - 03:10, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mian Mir
    Qadiri order of Sufism. He is famous for being a spiritual instructor of Dara Shikoh, the eldest son of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. He is identified as the...
    11 KB (1,180 words) - 01:53, 6 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Majma-ul-Bahrain
    Majma-ul-Bahrain (category Works of Dara Shikoh)
    MAJMA' UL BAHARAIN or The Mingling Of Two Oceans, by Prince Muhammad Dara Shikoh, Edited in the Original Persian with English Translation, notes & variants...
    16 KB (1,386 words) - 11:21, 18 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jaigarh Fort
    cannon barrels. When the Mughal war of succession broke out in 1658 Dara Shikoh secured the cannon outpost of Jaigarh Fort until he was defeated and...
    15 KB (1,777 words) - 10:43, 25 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sheila Dikshit
    Journalist Association of India 2009 Politician of the Year by NDTV 2010 Dara Shikoh award by Indo-Iran Society 2013 Delhi Women of the Decade Achievers Award...
    24 KB (1,677 words) - 19:27, 4 January 2025