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Bahadur Shah II at AllExperts (1052 words) |
 | Abu Zafar Sirajuddin Muhammad Bahadur Shah Zafar, or Bahadur Shah II (1775-1862), also known as Bahadur Shah Zafar (Zafar was his nom de plume, or takhallus, as an Urdu poet), was the last of the Mughal emperors in India. |
| Zafar was the least threatening and least ambitious of monarchs, and the legacy of the Mughal Empire was more acceptable a uniting force to most allied kings than the domination of any other Indian kingdom. |
| Bahadur Shah died in exile on November 7, 1862 and is buried near Shwe Degon Pagoda, Yangôn, and the place of his burial is currently known as Bahadur Shah Zafar Dargah [1]. |
| Other Mughals by Neria Harish Hebbar, MD (1087 words) |
| Bahadur Shah was well in his sixties when he took control of the empire and soon died in 1712. |
| A Timur descendent, Nadir shah usurped the throne in Persia and seized Kandahar and Kabul. |
| His son Bahadur Shah Zafar II would be the last emperor of Mughals before the British deposed him in 1858 and the Mughal dynasty would officially come to a dishonorable end. |
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