Akbar II
Mirza Jahangir’s behaviour on his return to Delhi worsened and Akbar II agreed with the British (after he tried to poison his elder brother Bahadur Shah Zafar twice) that he be sent back to Allahabad. There he whiled away his time in drinking Hoffmann’s cherry brandy and making merry with dancing girls. In 1816, Col Sleeman found him in a bad state. “To obtain an interview with the Governer General, Lord Hastings he promised to limit himself to one bottle of port wine daily.” Lord Hastings described him as wearing a tartar dress, a crimson robe, blue vest, lined with fur and a high conical cap ornamented with jewels,though it was the peak of summer. He had long hair, cut at the side — a handsome young man gone astray. The prince died in 1821, long before his parents, and was buried in tomb in Delhi near the Nizamuddin Dargah.