Dargah of Bahadur Shah Zafar, The last Mughal emperor of India
After the mutiny of 1857 he was captured by the British, with more than half of his family killed by them, had a show trial, and exiled to Rangoon (Yangon). He died there in 1862. He was a noted Urdu poet and regarded himself as a Sufi Pir. The local Muslims have already given him the status of a saint. they want a Lal Quila to be built there in his memory.
The King of Myanmar was in turn Exiled by the British to Ratnagiri In Maharashtra.
True cultural exchange by the British colonists for their own cause
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Taken on November 30, 2009