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Bahadur Shah Zafar at IMDb; Extract of talk by Zafar's biographer William Dalrymple (British Library) Poetry. Bahadur Shah Zafar at Kavita Kosh Archived 16 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine (in Hindi) Bahadur Shah Zafar Poetry; Extracts from a book on Bahadur Shah Zafar, with details of exile and family; Bahadur Shah Zafar Ghazals
The tombs of Bahadur Shah Zafar's wives and sons, Zinat Mahal and Jawan Bakht. Zafar's wife, Zinat Mahal, died in 1882 approximately 20 years after his death.When she died, the location of Zafar's grave had already been forgotten and "could not be located," so she was buried in a roughly similar position near a tree where his grave was assumed to be.
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857 is a 2006 historical book by William Dalrymple. [1] It deals with the life of poet-emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775–1862) and the unsuccessful Indian Rebellion of 1857, which he participated in, challenging the British East India Company's rule over India.
Bahadur Shah had appealed to the Ottomans to expel the Portuguese, which led to the 1538 expedition. [23] An army of the Sultanate of Gujarat under Khoja Zufar aided by an Ottoman fleet led by the Ottoman governor of Egypt Hadım Suleiman Pasha , attempted to capture Diu in 1538 but the Portuguese under the command of captain António da ...
By 1857 a considerable part of former Mughal India was under the East India Company's control. After a crushing defeat in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 which he nominally led, the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, was deposed by the British East India Company and exiled in 1858 to Rangoon, Burma. [56] Portrait of Bahadur Shah Zafar
Zafar Mahal, is the ruined summer palace of the last Mughal Emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar II. The Moghul dynasty, which started with the first Mughal Emperor Babur who conquered Delhi in 1526 AD ended after 332 years when on 7 October 1858 the last Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar II (1837–1857) was tried for treason by the British and deported to Rangoon, Burma, now Myanmar from the imperial city ...
Mirza Jahagir's father, the Mughal Emperor Akbar Shah II (r. 1808–1837) was not happy with his eldest son Siraj Uddin “Zafar” (Bahadur Shah Zafar II) and wanted to nominate his younger son Mirza Jahangir as the heir apparent (Wali-Ahad). This move was not liked by Archibald Seton, then British Resident in the Red Fort.
(In the British Indian artillery, North Indian Muslims were generaIIy preferred and had been the majority of the establishment.) [11] Pleased with the loot they brought with them, Bahadur Shah made Bakht Khan the new commander-in-chief. Bakht Khan was able to replenish the city's finances and inspire the rebel soldiers to renewed efforts.