Mughal Prince Shah Shuja in Bengal: The Lost Kingdom of Arakan
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In 1660, after losing the Mughal war of succession, Prince Shah Shuja fled to Bengal, seized a fleet, and escaped to the independent kingdom of Arakan (modern-day Rakhine State, Myanmar). There, he hoped to regroup and perhaps carve out a new domain. But Arakan's king, Sandathudamma, had other plans. What followed was a story of betrayal, forced relocation, cultural exchange, and a mysterious massacre that erased the prince's party from history. In this episode, Lucas and Luna trace Shuja's flight from the battlefields of North India to the coasts of Bengal, his uneasy welcome in Arakan, and the violent end that may have given rise to legends of a lost Mughal colony. We explore the political calculus of Arakan's court, the role of Portuguese pirates and slave-traders, and the strange fate of Shuja's children — who disappear from the historical record almost overnight. This is a tale of empire's edge, where one prince's desperate gamble met a kingdom's ruthless pragmatism.
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