Bahadur Shah Zafar

محمد بهادر شاه

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Delhi

The twentieth and last Mughal emperor of India (1775–1862) and an Urdu poet. He succeeded in 1837 with authority confined to the walled city of Delhi; in the rebellion of 1857 the rebels proclaimed him Emperor of India, and after its defeat the British exiled him to Rangoon, where he died. He was a practising Sufi who accepted disciples, and his Urdu ghazals were collected as the Kulliyyat-i-Zafar.

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Roles
sultan · Poet
Region
South Asia
Identifiers
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Life in time

17251750177518001825185018751900 c. c. c.
The Colonial Era · The Gunpowder Empires Contemporaries: Omar ibn Said · Sidi ibn al-Mukhtar al-Abyiri · Muhammad ibn Ahmad Aknasus · Bilali Muhammad · Al-Bajuri, Ibrahim ibn Muhammad

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Delhi

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Place in the story

    sufi (documented)

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    Born in
    Delhi
    Lived in
    Delhi
    Studied under
    Mirza Ghalib
    Spouse of
    Zeenat Mahal
    Participated in
    Siege of Delhi

    People and things also explored

    Delhi· Dagh Dehlvi· Mustafa Khan Shefta· Siege of Delhi· Mirza Ghalib· Zeenat Mahal· Coronation of Aurangzeb at Delhi· Founding of Shahjahanabad

    Sources

    • Bahadur Shah Zafar — English Wikipedia
    • Bahadur Shah Zafar — Arabic Wikipedia
    • Bahadur Shah Zafar — Urdu Wikipedia
    • Bahadur Shah Zafar — Wikidata Q127369
    • Ghalib — English Wikipedia
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    Delhi

    A city in northern India; it was the capital of the Delhi Sultanate from the thirteenth century CE and then the Mughal capital.