The Unfortunate King
The story of the last Mughal Bahadur Shah Zafar
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7 min readJun 1, 2021
In 1857, a great empire which was founded by Zahir ud-din-Muhammad Babur in 1527, comprised of areas of modern-day India, Pakistan, large parts of Afghanistan, and Bangladesh came to an end with a pitful future for the royal family ahead. This fall of the sultanate played havoc on the subjects as they were going under the alien rule which…