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Akbar II (22 April 1760 to 28 September 1837), also known as Akbar Shah II, was the nineteenth Mughal emperor of India. From 1806 to 1837, he ruled. He was Shah Alam II's second son and the father of Bahadur Shah II. Because of the growing British influence in India through the East India Company, Akbar had little de facto control. He dispatched Ram Mohan Roy to Britain as an envoy and bestowed the title of Raja on him. During his reign, the East India Company (EIC) stopped referring to itself as a subject of the Mughal Emperor and stopped minting coins in his honor in 1835. To this end, the Persian lines on the company's coins were removed. The Hindu-Muslim unification celebration Phool Walon Ki Sair is ascribed to Akbar II. At Mehrauli, his burial is located adjacent to the dargah of 13th-century Sufi saint Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki.

While his father was in exile, Prince Mirza Akbar was born on 22 April 1760, at Mukundpur, Satna, to Emperor Shah Alam II as his elder brother died and by following that, the prince was appointed Crown Prince with the title of Wali Ahd Bahadur on 2 May 1781, at the Red Fort. He was named Viceroy of Delhi in 1782 and served until 1799. The youthful Prince Mirza Akbar was compelled to nautch dance with other Mughal princes and princesses when the renegade eunuch Ghulam Qadir conquered Delhi. He witnessed the humiliation and starvation of members of the royal Mughal dynasty.When Mahmud Shah fled, Mirza Akbar was named titular Emperor and given the title of Akbar Shah II. He remained acting Emperor until his father, Shah Alam II, was reinstated in January 1788.

Emperor Akbar II ruled over a vast kingdom that was effectively confined to the Red Fort in Delhi. During his rule, Delhi's cultural life as a whole prospered. However, although honorable to him, his stance toward East India Company officials, particularly Lord Hastings, to whom he refused to give an audience on terms other than those of subject and king, irritated the British, who saw him as just their pensioner. As a result, the British lowered his title to 'King of Delhi' in 1835, and the East India Company stopped functioning as the Mughal Empire's simple lieutenants, as they had done from 1803 to 1835. Simultaneously, they changed Persian lettering on the company's coins with English text, removing the Emperor's name. To further weaken the Emperor's prestige and power, the British pushed the Nawab of Oudh and the Nizam of Hyderabad to adopt imperial titles. The Nizam did not do so out of courtesy, but the Nawab of Awadh did. He is also said to have given the titles of Nawab to the Nawabs of Tonk and Jaora. Ram Mohan Roy, a Bengali reformer, was selected by Akbar II to appeal against the East India Company's treatment of him, and he was given the title of Raja. As the Mughal ambassador to the Court of St. James, Ram Mohan Roy travelled to England. On behalf of the Mughal ruler, Ram Mohan Roy presented a well-argued memorial, but it was rejected. His burial, together with those of Bahadur Shah I (Shah Alam I) and Shah Alam II, is in a marble enclosure close to the dargah of the 13th-century Sufi saint Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki at Mehrauli, Delhi.

The Cousins of Mirza Mughal, the son of Bahadur Shah Zafar, son of Prince Akbar II, fled to neighbouring territories after the rebellion, fearing arrest by the British. The heir apparent, Prince Mirza Mughal, was slain in combat. Since many royal family members, including Emperor Bahadur Shah II, were banished to Rangoon in Burma, many surviving princes settled in various regions of India, although others settled in Burma and Bengal.