Bahadur Shah Zafar was the last Mughal emperor. He was the second son of and became the successor to his father, Akbar II, upon his death on 28 September 1837. After the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the British exiled him to Rangoon in British-controlled Burma.
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Bahadur Shah Zafar was the last Mughal emperor. He was the second son of and became the successor to his father, Akbar II, upon his death on 28 September 1837. After the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the British exiled him to Rangoon in British-controlled Burma. The East India Company became the dominant political and military power in mid-nineteenth-century India. The court that he maintained was home to several prolific Urdu writers, including Mirza Ghalib, Dagh, Mumin, and Zauq. After his defeat, he said: “As long as there remains the scent of Iman in the hearts of our Ghazis, so long shall the sword of Hindustan flash before the throne of London” He was a noted Urdu poet, having written a number of Urdu ghazals. While some part of his opus was lost or destroyed during the Indian rebellion, a large collection did survive, and was compiled into the Kulliyyat-i-Zafar. He died in 1857 and was succeeded by his son, Shah Alam II, who was exiled by the British in 1872. He is buried at the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Museum in New Delhi, India, and is buried next to his wife, who died in the same year, in a mausoleum in the Red Fort of the same city as his father. He has been described as “the last emperor of the Mughals” and “a man of few words and few deeds” He is also known as the “father of the Delhi Sultanate” and the “grandfather” of the modern-day state of Uttar Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
He had a reputation for being indecisive, but his actions during the 1857 rebellion were not seen as a major threat to the British Empire. The British sent sepoys to kill him and his supporters, but he refused to implicate them in the killings. On 16 May 1857 the sepoys and fifty-two servants of the palace were killed. The aim of the executions was to loot the palace and mutineers who were discovered hiding in the palace. Once he had joined them, Bahadur II took ownership for all the actions of the mutiners and took ownership of the action of all the mutilated bodies. The Company provided him with a pension. The emperor permitted the Company to collect taxes from Delhi and maintain a military force in it. Because of his neutral views on religions, many Indian kings and regiments accepted and declared him as the Emperor of India. He never had any interest in statecraft or had any \”imperial ambition\”. He was exiled from Delhi after he was convicted of several charges in the Indian Rebellions of 1856 and 1857. His supporters were not the supporters of the rebels and he was not the one who instigated the killings of his supporters.
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