Is there a plan to bring the last Mughal Emperor back to India?

May 08, 2012 17:40

Following the Indian uprising against the British of 1857, in which the rebels made Bahadur Shah II their nominal leader, the emperor was convicted and dispatched to live out his years in sad exile in Rangoon. He would die there in November 1862, the last of the once mighty Mughuls.

Read Andrew Buncombe on the Independent.

Also read William Dalrymple's masterful book: The Last Mughal, which traces Bahadur Shah Zafar's story.

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