Bahadur Shah "Zafar" Last Mughal Emperor

1775-1862

The last descendent of Tamerlane to sit on the throne. The British had conquered almost all of India and in about 1857 had banished Zafar to Burma where he died remembering the motherland to his last breath.

lagataa nahii.n hai jii meraa uja.De dayaar me.n kis kii banii hai aalam\-e\-naa\-paayedaar me.n kah do in hasarato.n se kahii.n aur jaa base.n itanii jagah kahaa.n hai dil\-e\-daaGadaar me.n umr\-e\-daraaz maa.ng ke laaye the chaar din do aarazU me.n kaT gaye do i.ntazaar me.n hai kitana badanasiib zafar dafn ke liye do gaz zamiin bhii na milii kU\-e\-yaar me.n

My heart is not happy, In this barren land Who has ever felt fulfilled In this temporary world Please tell my emotions to go away somewhere else there is not enough room for them in my sad heart I had requested for a long life a life of four days Two were spent in praying and two were spent in waiting How unlucky Zafar is ! For his burial he could'nt get even two yards of earth in my beloved country.

Also see Mughal Dynasty and The Great Mughals for additional information, another poem and some sheyers. The samman-burj today. Babar, Fatahpur-Sikri, Akbar's capital, ShahJahan's imperial seal of 1651 AD with inscription "Shihab al-Din, Mohammed Shah Jahan Padshah Ghazi". The rupees minted in Surat in 1702AD, Capture of Bahadur Shah Zafar at at Humayoun's Tomb. Dewan-a'm of Shah Jehan, Taj Mahal, Mughal India, paintings from the Mughal library books, What happened to the descendents of the Mughals?. The Mughal Empire.