AH 1202 - 1203 / AD 1788

Bedar Bakht was a son of Ahmed Shah Bahadur and a grandson of Muhammad Shah. He reigned briefly as a puppet ruler, with the regnal name Nasir ud-Din Muhammad Jahan Shah. In 1788 the emperor Shah Alam II was dethroned and blinded by Ghulam Qadir Rohilla, who then set up Bedar Bakht as emperor at Delhi in August 1788, but after about two months, the Maratha forces under Mahadji Scindia overthrew and killed Ghulam Qadir and reinstated Shah Alam II.