Bahadur Shah Zafar II

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Sikeena Karmali Ahmed
by Unknown Artist
published on 25 November 2024
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Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775-1862) was the twentieth Mughal Emperor of Hindustan. The Mughal Empire ended with him during the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857. Zafar was a celebrated poet and Sufi mystic who was exiled to Rangoon by the British East India Company after abdicating the throne to stop further bloodshed among his kin. One of his most famous poems is a ghazal called "Lagta Nahin Hai Dil Mera," a lament expressing his heartbreak at being exiled from his homeland.

c.1850, artist unknown

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