The Mughal battle of succession:1658
The story begins when Shahjahan fall ill in 1658,and chances of his revival had almost ended. Knowing his end closer he declared Dara(his elder and favourite son)as his successor and increased his mansab(rank) from 40000 jat to 60000 jat. Other sons of Shahjahan thaught that he become partial towards Dara and revolted against the emperor. Many maulana also supported the revolt as they saw Dara as a heretical they thought that their superiority might go under Dara. After knowing about the revolt Shahjahan had sent an army in East under Dara's elder son Suleman Shikoh against Suja and a compain against Aurangzeb under raja Jaswant Singh to Malwa (south). But there Jaswant met with a combine army of Aurangzeb and Murad. Jaswant can leave the battle and could move bace to Agra where he would get more support but as a rajpoot can't leave or move behind in a battlefield and hence fought bravely but got defeated at Dharmat and Aurangzeb moves towards Agra. Here Dara had done a big mis...