The crown of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor ... where they remain to this day. These objects serve as poignant reminders of the end of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of British ...

Bahadur Shah Zafar was the 20th and the last Mughal emperor and also an Urdu poet. He died at age 87 in 1862 in Rangoon in Burma (present-day Myanmar), where he had been exiled after the 1857 ...

The once glorious empire collapsed after the arrest and imprisonment of the last Mughal emperor ... to light the present day condition of the bloodline of Bahadur Shah Zafar.

Only a handful of relatives were present when Bahadur Shah Zafar II breathed his last in a shabby wooden house in Rangoon (now Yangon) in 1862. That very day, his British captors buried him in an ...

Thus, September 20, 1857 became the last day of the once-mighty Mughal empire in India. According to historians, Bahadur Shah Zafar had taken refuge in the Purana Quila in Delhi, but the British ...

If one visits Yangon, then one must visit the Dargah of Bahadur Shah Zafar. It is an irony of sorts when one thinks of the last Mughal emperor not being able to spend the last days of his life in a ...

Sultana Begum, claiming to be Bahadur Shah Zafar's great-granddaughter-in-law, faced disappointment as the Supreme Court dismissed her plea for the Red Fort's possession. The court deemed her ...

On the following day ... Shah Zafar would be exiled. Seven months later, he was exiled to Rangoon in Burma with two of his wives, two remaining sons and a few servants. Bahadur Shah Zafar, the ...

The Life and Poetry of Bahadur Shah Zafar – with its wealth of ... Finally, he recounts, in a touching manner, how Zafar spent his last days in Rangoon (where he had been exiled by the British ...

The Mughal Empire has been a controversial topic in the country for ages, with Mughal emperors like Aurangzeb being accused of ethnic cleansing of the local Hindu population, forced religious ...