# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/akbar-ii
# Generated: 2026-08-31T16:43:31.424Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/akbar-ii"
name: "Akbar II"
slug: "akbar-ii"
description: "Akbar II held the throne of the Mughal Empire while the throne itself emptied of meaning. By 1835, the East India Company stopped even pretending he mattered — his name vanished from their coins, the last formal fiction of his sovereignty gone."
tagline: "17th Mughal Emperor from 1806 to 1837"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Circle_of_Ghulam_Ali_Khan_Portrait_painting_of_Akbar_II_ca_1827_ROM.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1760-04-22"
deathDate: "1837-09-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.54506
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
  - name: "Politicians"
    slug: "politicians"
  - name: "Writer / Author"
    slug: "writer-author"
  - name: "Poetry"
    slug: "poetry"
  - name: "Politics"
    slug: "politics"
  - name: "Early Modern Era"
    slug: "early-modern-era"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_II"
    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2091579"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Akbar%20II"
    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/II_%C6%8Fkb%C9%99r_%C5%9Eah"
    title: "II Əkbər Şah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%B0_II"
    title: "अकबर II"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC_%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%B0"
    title: "দ্বিতীয় আকবর"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A6%DB%95%DA%A9%D8%A8%DB%95%D8%B1_%D8%B4%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%88%DB%95%D9%85"
    title: "ئەکبەر شای دووەم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_%C5%A0%C3%A1h_II."
    title: "Akbar Šáh II."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_Shah_II."
    title: "Akbar Shah II."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CE%BA%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%AC%CF%81_%CE%92%CE%84"
    title: "Ακμπάρ Β΄"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Akbar_Sh%C3%A2h"
    title: "Muhammad Akbar Shâh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_II"
    title: "Akbar II"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A8%D8%B1_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "اکبر دوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_II"
    title: "Akbar II"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B9_%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AF"
    title: "अकबर शाह द्वितीय"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D6%84%D5%A2%D5%A1%D6%80_II"
    title: "Աքբար II"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_II"
    title: "Akbar II"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_II"
    title: "Akbar II"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%AF%E3%83%90%E3%83%AB2%E4%B8%96"
    title: "アクバル2世"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%85%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AC%E0%B5%BC_%E0%B4%B7%E0%B4%BE_%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%A3%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9F%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%BB"
    title: "അക്ബർ ഷാ രണ്ടാമൻ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/II_%D0%90%D0%BA%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%85"
    title: "II Акбар Шах"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_Szah_II"
    title: "Akbar Szah II"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A8%D8%B1_%D8%B4%D8%A7%DB%81_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "اکبر شاہ دوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BA%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%85_II"
    title: "Акбар Шах II"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://skr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A8%D8%B1_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%87_%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C"
    title: "اکبر شاه ثانی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%83%D8%A8%D8%B1_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A"
    title: "أكبر شاه الثاني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A8%D8%B1_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "اكبر شاه التانى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born 22 April 1760, Akbar was the second son of Shah Alam II and inherited an empire already hollowed by British encroachment. He ruled from 1806 to 1837 with almost no real authority, the East India Company tightening its grip through those decades. He sent Ram Mohan Roy to Britain as an ambassador and conferred on him the title of Raja. In 1835 the Company made the erosion official: it stopped calling itself subject to the Mughal Emperor and struck his name from its coinage, deleting the Persian inscriptions that had acknowledged him. He is credited with founding the Hindu–Muslim unity festival Phool Walon Ki Sair. He died 28 September 1837 and was buried beside the dargah of Sufi saint Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki at Mehrauli; his son Bahadur Shah II succeeded him and closed the dynasty.