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Shahzada Mirza Fath-ul-Mulk Bahadur also known as Mirza Fakhru (c. 1816 or 1818 – 10 July 1856) was the last Crown Prince of the Mughal Kingdom.
Mirza Jawan Bakht (1841 – 18 September 1884) was the son of Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar and Zeenat Mahal. He was the fifteenth son of his father, but the only son of his mother. She nursed the ambition of placing him on the Mughal throne. Biography. His mother, Zeenat Mahal, saved him all through 1857 rebellion and kept him in safe custody.
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Bahadur Shah Zafar ruled over a Mughal Empire that had by the early 19th century been reduced to only the city of Delhi and the surrounding territory as far as Palam. The Maratha Empire had brought an end to the Mughal Empire in the Deccan during the 18th century and the regions of India formerly under Mughal rule had either been absorbed by the Ma...
As the Indian Rebellion of 1857 spread, Sepoy regiments reached the Mughal Court at Delhi. Because of Zafar's neutral views on religions, many Indian kings and regiments accepted and declared him as the Emperor of India. On 12 May 1857, Zafar held his first formal audience in several years. It was attended by several sepoys who were described as tr...
The trial was a consequence of the Sepoy Mutiny and lasted for 21 days, had 19 hearings, 21 witnesses and over a hundred documents in Persian and Urdu, with their English translations, were produced in the court. At first the trial was suggested to be held at Calcutta, the place where Directors of East India company used to their sittings in connec...
In 1862, at the age of 87, he reportedly acquired an illness. In October, his condition deteriorated. He was "spoon-fed on broth" but he found that difficult too by 3 November. On 6 November, the British Commissioner H.N. Davies recorded that Zafar "is evidently sinking from pure desuetude and paralysis in the region of his throat". To prepare for ...
Bahadur Shah Zafar had four wives and numerous concubines. His wives were: 1. Begum Ashraf Mahal 2. Begum Akhtar Mahal 3. Begum Zeenat Mahal 4. Begum Taj Mahal He had twenty two sons including: 1. Mirza Dara BakhtMiran Shah (1790–1841) 2. Mirza Muhammed Shahrukh Bahadur 3. Mirza Kayumar Bahadur 4. Mirza Fath-ul-Mulk Bahadur(alias Mirza Fakhru) (181...
Bahadur Shah Zafar was a devout Sufi. He was regarded as a Sufi Pir and used to accept murids or pupils. The newspaper Delhi Urdu Akhbaar described him as "one of the leading saints of the age, approved of by the divine court." Before his accession, he lived like "a poor scholar and dervish", differing from his three royal brothers, Mirza Jahangir,...
He was a prolific Urdu poet and calligrapher. He wrote the following Ghazal as his own epitaph. In his book, The Last Mughal, William Dalrymple states that, according to Lahore scholar Imran Khan, the beginning of the verse, umr-e-darāz māṅg ke ("I asked for a long life") was not written by Zafar, and does not appear in any of the works published d...
Zafar was portrayed in the play 1857: Ek Safarnama set during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 by Javed Siddiqui. It was staged at Purana Qila, Delhi ramparts by Nadira Babbar and the National School of Drama repertory company in 2008. A Hindi-Urdu black-and-white movie, Lal Quila (1960), directed by Nanabhai Bhatt, showcased Bahadur Shah Zafar extensi...
Portrait of Bahadur Shah in 1840s The Delhi Book of Thomas MetcalfeDalrymple, William (2009). The Last Mughal: The Fall of Delhi, 1857. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4088-0688-3.H L O Garrett (2007). The Trial of Bahadur Shah Zafar. Roli Books. ISBN 978-8174365842.K. C. Kanda (2007). Bahadur Shah Zafar and His Contemporaries: Zauq, Ghalib, Momin, Shefta : Selected Poetry. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 978-81-207-3286-5.His Royal Highness The Prince Mirza Fath-ul-Mulk Bahadur also known as Mirza Fakhru was the last Crown Prince of the Mughal Empire. Career. He was made the Crown Prince in 1853. Family. He was an older brother of Prince Mirza Mughal and the younger brother of former Crown Prince Mirza Dara Bakht. He died of Cholera in 1856.
Abu Zafar Sirajuddin Muhammad Bahadur Shah Zafar also known as Bahadur Shah or Bahadur Shah II (October 24, 1775 – November 7, 1862) was the last of the Moghul emperors in India, as well as the last ruler of the Timurid Dynasty. He was the son of Akbar Shah II by his Hindu wife Lalbai.
Shahzada Mirza Fath-ul-Mulk Bahadur also known as Mirza Fakhru (1816 or 1818 – 10 July 1856) was the last Crown Prince of the Mughal Kingdom. Biography. A senior Prince of the Mughal Royal Family, he was the son of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal Emperor, through his wife Rahim Bukhsh Bai Begum. Fath-ul-Mulk was named Crown Prince in 1853.
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wikipedia:Mirza Fath-ul-Mulk Bahadur. Events. 1816 birth: Delhi, Mughal Empire. child birth: ♂ Mirza Farkhunda Jamal [ Timurids] marriage: ♀ Raffat Sultan Begum [ Timurids] 10 July 1856 death: Delhi, Mughal Empire, Shahjahanbad, Dysentery. From grandparents to grandchildren.
