(1803), during the Second Anglo-Maratha War, on 14 September 1803 British troops entered Delhi ending the Maratha rule on the Mughals, bringing Shah Alam, then a blind old man, seated under a tattered canopy, under British protection. The Mughal Emperor no longer had the military power to enforce his will, but he commanded respect as a dignified member of the House of Timur in the length and breadth of the country. The Nawabs and Subedars still sought formal sanction of the Mughal Emperor on their accession and valued the titles he bestowed upon them. They struck coins and read the khutba (Friday sermons) in his name. The Marathas in 1804 under Yashwantrao Holkar tried to snatch Delhi from the British in Siege of Delhi (1804), but failed. Death Shah Alam II died of natural causes on 19 November 1806. His grave lies in a marble enclosure adjoined to the Moti Masjid, next to the dargah of the 13th century Sufi saint Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki, in Mehrauli, Delhi. Also in the enclosure are the tombs of Bahadur Shah I (also known as Shah Alam I), and Akbar Shah II. In popular culture In the 1994 Hindi TV series The Great Maratha, Shah Alam's character was portrayed by Rishabh Shukla. Gallery See also Mirza Najaf Khan Shuja-ud-Daula Hyder Ali Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah References Shah Alam II (1728–1806) The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan – World Wide School Marathas and the English Company 1707–1800 Further reading Mughal emperors 1728 births 1806 deaths 18th-century Indian monarchs People from Delhi