Mirza Abu Zafar Sirajuddin Muhammad Bahadur Shah Zafar better known as Bahadhur Shah Zafar (24 October 1775 -7 November 1862) was the last Mughal emperor and a member of the Tirmurid Dynasty. Zafar was the son of Mirza Akbar Shah II and Lalbai, who was a Hindu Rajput and become Mughal emperor when his father died on 28 September 1837. He used Zafar a part of his name meaning victory?, he wrote many urdu Ghazals under it. After his involvement in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 the British tried and then exiled him from Delhi and sent him to Rangoon in then British controlled Desi.
Zafar?s father Akbar Shah II, ruled over a rapidly disintegrating emperor between 1806 and 1837. It was during his time that the East Indian Company dispensed with the illusion of ruling in the name of the Mughla monarch and removed his name form the person text appeared on the coins struck by the company in the areas under their control.
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