new icn messageflickr-free-ic3d pan white
Tomb of Bahadur Shah Zafar | by ramesh_lalwani
Back to photostream

Tomb of Bahadur Shah Zafar

Numerous male members of his family were killed by the British, who imprisoned or exiled the surviving members of the Mughal dynasty. Zafar himself was exiled to Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar) in 1858 along with his wife Zeenat Mahal and some of the remaining members of the family. His departure as Emperor marked the end of more than three centuries of Mughal rule in India.

 

Bahadur Shah died in exile on 7 November 1862. He was buried near the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, at the site that later became known as Bahadur Shah Zafar Dargah.His wife Zeenat Mahal died in 1886.

Source Wikipedia

3,776 views
1 fave
7 comments
Uploaded on June 9, 2006