Takka - Shah Alam II Mahe Indrapur

Shah Alam II was the Mughal emperor in name during one of the dynasty's most turbulent collapses — blinded by the Rohilla chieftain Ghulam Qadir in 1788, restored under Maratha protection, and ultimately reduced to a pensioner of the British after 1803. Bharatpur's rulers struck coins in his name throughout this period as a matter of political legitimacy, not Mughal loyalty. The fiction of imperial authority was useful currency long after the empire itself had ceased to function.