Indian sepoys who had raised the flag of revolt in 1857 reached Red Fort and urged Bahadur Shah Zafar to be the symbolic head of their fight. The last Mughal emperor, living off a pension from the ...

T he crown of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor, holds significant historical value. The crown, along with two ornate throne chairs, was acquired by Major Robert Tytler following the ...

A trust has been launched to bring back the remains of India's last Mughal emperor and to trace his descendants, many of whom are believed to be living in poverty. Bahadur Shah Zafar, 1775–1862 ...

NEW DELHI: "Do gaz zameen bhi na milee ku-e-yaar mein" (Not even land for a grave in one's homeland), lamented the last emperor of India, Bahadur Shah Zafar, banished to Yangon by the British ...

The British sent Bahadur Shah Zafar to Burma (now Myanmar), where he was imprisoned in Rangoon (now Yangon), and died on November 7, 1862, marking the end of the Mughal dynasty.

The mural of Bahadur Shah Zafar – who was deposed by the British after the first war of Independence in 1857 – had been commissioned by the non-profit CS Disha Foundation in 2016.

Activists of a right-wing Hindu outfit smeared black paint on a mural of the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, at Ghaziabad railway station on Friday, officials said.

Yakub Habeebuddin Tucy, who claims to be a direct descendant of the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, has written to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres urging protection for ...

The fall of the Mughal Empire came in 1857 after the British forces successfully defeated Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, who had been a symbolic leader during the uprising.

Bahadur Shah Zafar was the last Mughal emperor of India, ruling from 1837 until the British deposed him in 1857. Born in 1775, he was a poet, scholar, and a symbol of the Mughal dynasty's decline ...