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Muazzam, the second son of the emperor Aurangzeb through the daughter of Raja Raju, was born in Burhanpur in 1643.
Bahadur Shah died on February 27, 1712 in Lahore while making alterations to the Shalimar Gardens.
The harem-queen to Bahadur Shah was the Portuguese born Catholic Dona Juliana Dias da Costa, who used to ride on a war elephant beside him during battles to defend his authority.
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  Encyclopedia: Bahadur Shah I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Azam Shah (1653 - 1707) was the Mogul emperor of India in 1707.
Jahandar Shah (1664 - February 11, 1713) was the Mughal emperor of India from 1712 to 1713.
Shah Alam II (1728-1806) was a Mughal emperor of India.
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 Bahadur Shah Zafar
Bahadur Shah, after the death of his father, was placed on the throne in 1837 when he was little over 60 years of age.
Bahadur Shah Zafar, like his predecessors, was a weak ruler who came to throne when the British domination over India was strengthening and the Mughal rule was nearing its end.
Bahadur Shah Zafar was obliged to live on British pension, while the reins of real power lay in the hands of the East India Company.
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 Bahadur Shah I Information
Muazzam Bahadur Shah (October 14, 1643 – February 1712), also known as Shah Alam I was the Mughal emperor of India from 1707 to 1712.
Muazzam was born in Burhanpur, the fourth son of the emperor Aurangzeb.
One younger brother, Prince Azam Shah, proclaimed to be emperor and marched towards Delhi, where he fought Bahadur Shah unsuccessfully and lost.
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 Bahadur Shah I - LoveToKnow 1911
BAHADUR SHAH I., a Mogul emperor of Hindustan, A.D. 1707-1712, the son and successor of Aurangzeb.
At the time of the latter's death his eldest surviving son, Prince Muazim, was governor of Kabul, and in his absence the next brother, Azam Shah, assumed the functions of royalty.
Azam would not accept the proposal and was defeated and slain on the plains of Agra.
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 bahadur shah zafar
Proof of Bahadur Shah Zafar’s involvement in Diwali is furnished by Hakeem Mam Chand Arora of Chandni Chowk Katra Neel’s Surbhi Trading Company, who claims that the pooja samagri (prayer material) at the durbar was sent by his forefathers.
The Crystal throne of the Last Moghal, Bahadur Shah Zafar, his gold crown, and the jewelled `Huma` bird which adorned the throne of Tipu Sultan are yet to be returned to their rightful place, the Indian authorities claim.
Bahadur Shah, whose famous queen, Zeenat Mahal, several decades younger, did not appeal to him only because of her tomboyish charm as she caught floating paper kites on the terrace of her haveli in Lal Kuan.
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 Bahadur Shah I - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Muazzam Bahadur Shah (October 14, 1643 - February 1712), also known as Shah Alam I was a Mughal emperor of India from 1707 to 1712.
One younger brother, Prince Azam Shah, was proclaimed emperor and marched towards Delhi, where he fought with Bahadur Shah but lost.
A more moderate man than his father, Bahadur Shah sought to improve relations with the Rajputs and Marathas millitants, and took the last Sikh Guru Gobind Singh into service.
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 Other Mughals by Neria Harish Hebbar, MD
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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 Expansion of Nepal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bahadur Shah, however, was released later at the request of the Chief Priest Gajaraj Misra and was allowed to go to Bettiah.
Bahadur Shah was greatly shocked at the treatment of the king towards him who always had fought for the good of the king and the country.
It is believed that the coin of Rana Bahadur Shah relieves the labour pain of a lady and the baby is born if the mother is given the water in which the coin of Rana Bahadur's reign is dropped.
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 Bahadur Shah II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bahadur Shah Zafar (Zafar was his nom de plume, or takhallus, as an Urdu poet), was the last of the Mughal emperors in India.
When the rebellion was crushed, he was captured and his sons Mirza Mughal and Khizar Sultan and his grandson Abu Bakr were executed in his presence and, famously, their severed heads presented to him.
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].
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 Former Indian Emperor turns saint in Burma
The tomb of Bahadur Shah Zafar in Yangon
Bahadur Shah Zafar was born in Delhi in 1775 and ascended the throne as a Mughal Emperor in 1838 after his father Akbar Shah's demise (his mother Lalbai was a Hindu).
Bahadur Shah was then exiled to Rangoon in 1858 he spent his last days in Rangoon and died at the age of 87.
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 Bahadur Shah Zafar - Bahadur Shah Zafar Biography - Life History of Bahadur Shah Zafar
The last Mughal emperor of India, Bahadur Shah Zafar II (1775-1862) was born Abu Zafar Sirajuddin Muhammad Bahadur Shah Zafar and was a very famous Urdu poet in his times.
Regarded as one of the greatest Urdu poets in the history of India, Bahadur Shah Zafar wrote a large number of Urdu Ghazals most of which were lost during wars fought in the year 1857.
Bahadur Shah Zafar was the last and the weakest Mughal emperor.
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 Twilight of the Mughal Dynasty
The victor among Aurangzeb's sons was Bahadur Shah.
Bahadur Shah was followed by a line of feeble successors.
Brend writes that the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah II, was deposed in 1858; India was brought under the direct rule of the British Crown.
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 Encyclopedia: Bahadur Shah II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Abu Zafar Sirajuddin Mohammed Bahadur Shah Zafar, or Bahadur Shah II (1775-1862), a.k.a.
As the Indian rebellion of 1857 spread, the nationalist forces nominated Bahadur Shah as their leader.
Bahadur Shah Zafar was also an Urdu poet of some repute.
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 Punjab Online: History of Punjab   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bahadur Shah was generally a generous, munificent, and good-natured prince.
The death of Bahadur Shah was followed by the usual struggle for sovereignt among his four sons.
Jahandar Shah was a weak and idolent prince, effeminate, licentious, and fond of ease.
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 NATIONAL 9 (Spotlight Weelky)]
According to the tradition then, Bahadur Shah was supposed to have received his early education through Brahmins whose task then was to educate the princes and princesses.
Bahadur Shah was supposed to have been trained in such areas of warfare as archery, horse-riding and swimming.
Pratap Singh Shah’s ears were filled with rumors of a possibility of a coup from Bahadur Shah who had a strong hold over the old courtiers and the army stationed at Nuwakot.
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 Tales of Asia - Myanmar
The fact that Bahadur wanted none of this, that he was an old man, a poet and a patron of poets, and happiest surrounded by poets, not warriors, was irrelevant.
And Bahadur in his audience chamber looked upon the sweaty faces of his new friends, and he looked out from the palace window upon the dark face of the mob, and he knew the loneliness of kingship.
Bahadur Shah’s sudden elevation to titular leadership of a movement of national liberation happened in May 1857.
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 bahadur shah zafar
Bahadur Shah Zafar was the last Mughal King of India.
Bahadur Shah Zafar was born in Delhi on October 24 1775.
Bahadur Shah Zafar died in exile in the captivity of the British.
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 SAN DIEGO MUSEUM of ART | The Binney Collection: South Asian Miniature Paintings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bahadur Shah carried on the general style of court painting practiced in Aurangzeb's time.
In this painting, Bahadur Shah is shown presenting his grandson with an emerald and ruby ornament on his turban.
Bahadur Shah's sons sit in audience, their full beards and traces of gray hair offering evidence of their father's late-in-life reign.
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 ipedia.com: Bahadur Shah Zafar II Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bahadur Shah Zafar II was the last of the Mughal emperors in India.
Bahadur Shah Zafar II Bahadur Shah Zafar II (1775-1862) was the last of the Mughal emperors in India.
It is recalled that Bahadur Shah Zafar II was seen begging in the streets of Rangoon in Burma.
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 Indian emperor saint honoured in Myanmar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The last of the Mughal kings, Bahadur Shah ascended to the throne in 1837 when he was already over 60.
Bahadur Shah Zafar was tried for treachery and exiled to Yangon, then known as Rangoon, the capital of Burma, presently Myanmar, while the others were killed.
Pakistan, which was also part of the empire under Bahadur Shah, had earlier expressed a desire to have the tomb transported to Islamabad.
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 Opinion   (Spotlight Weekly)
Bahadur Shah had served as regent for a very short period immediately after the death of his elder brother King Pratap Singh prior to the regency of Queen Rajendra Lakshmi also.
Unification instead of annexation was the hallmark of Bahadur Shah’s policy of national campaign that came into force a few years later when Bahadur Shah again became regent for the second time after the death of Queen Rajendra Lakshmi.
As soon as Bahadur Shah became regent for the second time he did not waste time to severely punish those who had provoked Queen Rajendra Lakshmi into committing acts of brutal treatment of the people opposing her.
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 Marathas and the English Company 1707-1818 by Sanderson Beck
Bahadur Shah won because A'zam Shah's army scattered; he and his two sons were killed.
Shah Nawaz Khan was appointed governor of Multan and challenged Muin-ul-mulk with an army of 15,000.
Shah Waliullah (1703-62) was born in Delhi and became an influential Islamic theologian.
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 Indian Mutiny Dehli   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In 1857 Bahadur Shah, the last of the Moghuls, was a pensioner of the British who still lived inside the Red Fort and maintained the pretence of former glory by continuing the ceremonial functions of the Moghul court.
Bahadur Shah was appalled by the wild mob carousing in his palace and had sent messengers to the British garrison at Agra asking for help.
The fort was deserted, Bahadur and his sons having fled to the imagined safety of Humayun's tomb on the outskirts of the city.
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 txt_evocations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bahadur Shah 'Zafar', British pensioner, Emperor, poet-- and reluctant patron of a reluctant Ghalib.
Bahadur Shah was caught up in the Rebellion; he took some part in it, and his sons participated enthusiastically.
Bahadur Shah fled to Humayun's Tomb, then surrendered; the Red Fort was devastated by looters.
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 Nepal - The Struggle for Power
The premature death of Pratap Singh Shah (reigned 1775-77), the eldest son of Prithvi Narayan Shah, left a huge power vacuum that remained unfilled for decades, seriously debilitating the emerging Nepalese state.
The acting regent until 1785 was Queen Rajendralakshmi, followed by Bahadur Shah (reigned 1785-94), the second son of Prithvi Narayan Shah.
The death of Girvan Yuddha Shah in 1816 and the accession of his infant son meant the retention of the regency.
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 Knowlede :: Road to Freedom :: The Trial of the Last Emperor
Had Bahadur Shah Zafar been conversant with international law, he might have questioned the very legitimacy of the trial he was made to face.
Bahadur Shah was past 80, and was ailing.
Bahadur Shah; when the army denied the authority of the Company, it appealed to the Emperor to resume his sway.
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 N'CYP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bahadur Shah her to a dynasty of scholars, is lazy and found of comfort.
Bahadur Shah tells the guru that instead of wood cutting he would rather perform miracles.
The Bahadur Shah sees thegurur who tells him that there is no short cut to achieving what one desires.
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 Bahadur Shah I -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Born in (Click link for more info and facts about Burhanpur) Burhanpur, he was the eldest son of the previous emperor (Click link for more info and facts about Aurangzeb) Aurangzeb.
One younger brother, Prince (Click link for more info and facts about Azam Shah) Azam Shah, was proclaimed emperor and marched towards (A city in north central India) Delhi, where he fought with Bahadur Shah but lost.
He died in 1712 at (City in northeast Pakistan) Lahore while making alterations to the Shalimar Gardens, and was followed by his surviving (Click link for more info and facts about Jahandar Shah) Jahandar Shah on the Mughal throne.
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