The Unfortunate King

The story of the last Mughal Bahadur Shah Zafar

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Smorgasbord of History
7 min readJun 1, 2021

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Painting depicting Captain William Hodson capturing Bahadur Shah Zafar photo credit wikimedia.org

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…

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