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Bahadur Shah Zafar (also known as Aboo Zafar) ascended the Mughal throne in 1837 at the age of 62. He succeeded his father, Emperor Akbar Shah II. Zafar (meaning 'victory' in Persian) was a poet and an artist. “The eldest son of his late Majesty Mirza Aboo Zuffer has quietly succeeded to the throne under the usual salutes. The customary ...
Mir Syed Jafar Ali Khan Bahadur (c. 1691 – 5 February 1765) was a commander-in-chief or military general who reigned as the first dependent Nawab of Bengal of the British East India Company. His reign has been considered by many historians as the start of the expansion of British control of the Indian subcontinent in Indian history and a key step in the eventual British domination of vast areas of pre-partition India .
May 16, 2017 · The 82-year-old Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, sent orders that the sepoys be calmed down and the prisoners taken into his safe custody and arrangements be made to keep them and treat the ...
Jan 30, 2023 · Swapna Liddle. Jan 30, 2023 · 08:30 am. Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar II. No matter how much opposition Bahadur Shah Zafar faced from his own family, or from the government, he held a special ...
Bahadur Shah Zafar was the last king of the Mughal Empire. Kulliyat-e-Zafar is a collection of poetry that came out after his death. He spent the last days of his life in Exile. The pain of the fall of his beloved city is clearly visible in his poetry. This selection includes some of the famous couplets of Bahadur Shah Zafar.
After the Indian rebellion which he nominally led from 1857–58, the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, was deposed by the British, who then assumed formal control of a large part of the former empire, marking the start of the British Raj.
Jun 18, 2013 · Apparently, Bahadur Shah’s signature didn’t figure on this paper. “The prisoner, who had for some time being reclining in a lethargic state, began to groan and to complain of feeling unwell . He begged to be allowed leave” and the court closed for the day at 1.30pm.
