Bahadur Shah II

Who was Bahadur Shah II?

Mirza Abu Zafar Sirajuddin Muhammad Bahadur Shah Zafar, also known as Bahadur Shah Zafar, on 24 October 1775 – died 7 November 1862, was the last Mughal emperor and a member of the Timurid Dynasty.

He was the son of Akbar Shah II and Lalbai, who was a Hindu Rajput, and became Mughal Emperor when his father died on 28 September 1837. He used Zafar, a part of his name, meaning “victory”, for his nom de plume as an Urdu poet, and he wrote many Urdu ghazals under it. After his involvement in the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the British tried and then exiled him from Delhi and sent him to Rangoon in British-controlled Burma.