Akbar II

Akbar II (22 April 1760 – 28 September 1837), born Mirza Akbar, was the nineteenth Mughal emperor from 1806 to 1837, the second son of Shah Alam II ¹.

He was born at Mukundpur while his father was in exile, and was crowned on 19 November 1806, the day of Shah Alam II's death ¹. By then the emperor's authority barely ran beyond the Red Fort: Delhi had been under British protection since 1803, and Akbar II reigned as a pensioned sovereign while the East India Company governed ¹. He pressed his claims on the Company through diplomacy, conferring the title of Raja on Ram Mohan Roy and sending him as his envoy to England ¹. He died at Delhi on 28 September 1837 and was succeeded by his son Bahadur Shah II, the last of the Mughal emperors ^{1 2}.

His legal school is unattested in the sources consulted. The English article's infobox gives Sunni Islam (Hanafi) ¹, but the Arabic article's infobox gives Islam only ³ and Wikidata likewise records Islam generically ²; a single structured attestation does not settle a school.

The English article and Wikidata agree at day precision on both his birth (22 April 1760) and his death (28 September 1837) ^{1 2}. His edge to his father Shah Alam II stands in this record, in the son's file, per the museum's write-once rule.