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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
Zeenat Mahal married Bahadur Shah II at Delhi on 19 November 1840 and had a son with him, Mirza Jawan Bakht.. She greatly influenced the emperor and, after the death of crown prince Mirza Dara Bakht, she began promoting her son Mirza Jawan Bakht as heir to the throne over the Emperor's remaining eldest son Mirza Fath-ul-Mulk Bahadur.
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.
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
Mirza Jawan Bakht (1841 – 18 September 1884) was the son of Emperor Bahadur Shah II, also called Zafar, and Zinat Mahal. He was the fifteenth son of his father and the only son of his mother. His mother nursed the ambition of placing him on the Mughal throne.
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 Mughal was the fifth son of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the 20th and last Mughal emperor. His mother, Sharif-ul-Mahal Sayyidini, came from an aristocratic Sayyid family that claimed descent from Muhammad. His mother was descended from Abdullah Shah Ghazi who was from the Hasanid line of the Ahl al-Bayt.
His ancestor Hasan Askari, an advisor to Bahadur Shah Zafar, was hanged by the British for his involvement in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. [5] He moved to Delhi in 1930 to attend school there. [1] His elder brother took part in the Indian independence movement, and was twice jailed by the British colonial authorities. [5]