| 1555 – 1556 | Humāyūn (restored) |
| 1556 – 1605 | Akbar I, the Great (son) |
| 1605 – 1627 | Jahāngīr (son) |
| 1628 – 1658 | Shāh Jahān I (son; deposed, died 1666 ) |
| 1658 – 1707 | Aurangzīb ‛Ālamgīr I (son) |
| 1707 – 1712 | Bahādur Shāh I ( Shāh ‛Ālam I ) (son) |
| 1712 – 1713 | Jahāndār Shāh (son) |
| 1713 – 1719 | Farrukhsiyar (nephew; deposed, died 1719 ) |
| 1719 | Rafī‛al-Darajāt (grandson of Bahādur Shāh I ) |
| 1719 | Shāh Jahān II ( Rafī‛al-Daula ) (brother) |
| 1719 – 1748 | Muḥammad Shāh (grandson of Bahādur Shāh I ) |
| 1748 – 1754 | Aḥmad Shāh (son; deposed, died 1774 ) |
| 1754 – 1759 | ‛Ālamgīr II (son of Jahāndār Shāh ) |
| 1759 – 1806 | Shāh ‛Ālam II (son) |
| 1806 – 1837 | Akbar II (son) |
| 1837 – 1858 | Bahādur Shāh II (son; deposed, died 1862 ; direct British rule of India) |
