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. Zafar, who had nominal ...

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 ...