Question

Who was Bhadur Shah Zafar? When he was born and died?

Answer 1

Mirza Abu Zafar Sirajuddin Muhammad Bahadur Shah Zafar (24 October 1775 – 7 November 1862) was the last Mughal emperor.





Bahadur Shah Zafar was the last king of Mogul Empire in India. But the empire had vanished part by part through the clever manipulations of then British “East India Company”. He bravely but Unsuccessfully led the First War of Independence 1857. After his arrest, he was presented with the chopped heads of his two young sons in silver platters covered with a silken cloth. It was a trick to beak him down, to make him shed tears, and beg for mercy so that his life be spared. It is reported that he gave a casual glance to the bleeding heads of his sons and said, ”They have died fighting for their Motherland as thousands of other sons of this country”.

After a Kangaroo Court trial, he was found guilty of “Revolting against a legally established Government” and was ordered, “To be kept in solitary confinement in a foreign land till his Death’.

He was shifted to a solitary jail in Burma (present Mayanmar) where he breathed his last. He was also a great Urdu poet and his couplet was a true prediction of his future. The couplet is,

“Kitna hai budnasseb Zafar Dafn ke liye,

Dow guz zameen bhi na mili koo ay yar mein.”

Answer 2

Bahadur Shah Zafar was the last Mughal emperor of India who was born in 1775 at Delhi. He was named Abu Zafar Sirajuddin Muhammad Bahadur Shah Zafar during his birth but was more popular as Bahadur Shah Zafar. His father was Akbar Shah and his mother was Lalbai. He ascended the throne at a very advanced age, after the death of his father, in 1837. He was last ruler of the Mughal Dynasty, which ruled India for about 300 years. He did not rule over his empire with a strong hand because of the rising power of the British.
Zafar was hiding at Humayun's tomb, in Delhi, along with his three sons and a grandson when the British army came and killed his sons and grandson and he was charged of treachery. In 1858, he was exiled to Rangoon in Myanmar, he lived there for five years and died at the age of 87, in 1862 . He was buried in the shrine Bahadur Shah Zafar Dargah in Rangoon, which is located near the Shwe Degon Pagoda at 6 Ziwaka Road, at Rangoon