Shah Jahan's Cannons: The Siege of Kandahar 1649 — Fexingo History

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Shah Jahan's Cannons: The Siege of Kandahar 1649 — Fexingo History

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In 1649, the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan launched a massive campaign to retake Kandahar from the Safavid Persians—a fortress city that controlled the strategic trade routes between India, Persia, and Central Asia. This episode digs into the military logistics, the engineering marvels of Mughal siege cannons, the role of French and Ottoman mercenaries, and the political miscalculations that turned the campaign into a costly failure. We explore the fortress's triple walls, the devastating Parthian-style hit-and-run tactics of the Safavids, and how the loss of Kandahar reshaped Mughal foreign policy for decades. Along the way, we meet figures like the Rajput general Raja Jaswant Singh, the Safavid commander Ali Mardan Khan (who had defected to the Mughals), and the Persian governor who held out. Lucas and Luna also touch on the broader context: Shah Jahan's obsession with Central Asian prestige, the drain on the treasury that affected his later building projects, and the simmering resentment among Mughal nobles that would eventually boil over during the war of succession.

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