Did Shuja, Aurangzeb’s brother die at Ukhrul?
By: Farooque Ahmed Stanley Lane-Poole (1971, Aurangzib, Delhi, p. 21) wrote that the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan had four sons and three daughters, of which Prince Shuja (1616-1660) was the third in line and that Shuja had a daughter named Zinat-an-Nisa (1643-1671). After the death of Shah Jahan, there was a war of succession among his sons in which Aurangzeb subsequently won and became the Mughal Emperor. This account will deal how Mir Jumla, the Governor of Bengal was instructed to capture the rebel brother Shuja, according to which, Mir Jumla chased Prince Shuja who then had to flee from Dacca to Arakan in 1660, then how the Arakan king suspected Shuja of conspiring against him. The Arakan king tried to capture Shuja who, then out of discomfiture, had to flee into Manipur hills, how he hid in a cave at Kairang, east of Imphal (now called Shujalok or cave of Shuja), and then fled up the Ukhrul hill and died there ultimately. The Arakan king earlier wanted to be sure that Shuja was exec
