However, Bahadur Shah Zafar's diplomacy failed to cut ice with the British as he was arrested on September 23, 1857, after the troops of the East India Company defeated the Indian sepoys in battle.

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 ...

Mob defaces Bahadur Shah Zafar mural in Ghaziabad believing it is Aurangzeb Members of the Hindu Raksha Dal sprayed black paint over the 16-foot-tall painting as they shouted ‘Aurangzeb murdabad’.

The Supreme Court rejected the plea of the descendant of Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar seeking possession of his house. Sultana Begum, great-granddaughter-in-law of the last Mughal emperor ...

Sultana Begum, claiming to be the Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar's great-granddaughter-in-law, petitioned the Supreme Court of India seeking ownership of the Red Fort. The court dismissed her ...