Emperor Ahmad Shah (son of Muhammad Shah) was blinded and deposed in 1754 by his Wazir, Imad-ul-Mulk, who then placed Alamgir II on the throne.

The 'Ijarah' system was the practice of revenue farming where the right to collect revenue was sold to the highest bidder (Izaredar), often leading to peasant oppression and agricultural decline.

Mahadji Scindia escorted Shah Alam II back to Delhi in 1771 (ending his exile in Allahabad) and became the de facto ruler of Delhi as the Mughal regent.

Jahandar Shah defeated his brothers and became emperor largely due to the support of Zulfiqar Khan, who became his Wazir.

The Treaty of Allahabad granted the East India Company the Diwani rights (right to collect revenue) for Bengal, Bihar, and Odisha.

Mirza Ghalib and Sheikh Ibrahim Zauq were the most prominent poets adorning the court of the last Mughal Emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar.

While Plassey was a defeat for the Nawab of Bengal, the Battle of Buxar (1764) involved the Mughal Emperor himself. His defeat there confirmed the military impotence of the Empire.

Saadatullah Khan is credited with establishing the autonomous state of Carnatic (in the Coromandel Coast region), nominally under the Hyderabad Nizam but practically independent.

Imad-ul-Mulk (Ghazi-ud-Din), the powerful Wazir, murdered Emperor Alamgir II in 1759 and placed Shah Jahan III on the throne briefly.

After the 1857 mutiny, Bahadur Shah Zafar was tried and exiled to Rangoon (in modern-day Myanmar), where he died in 1862.