# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bahadur-shah-zafar
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:48:00.353Z

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name: "Bahadur Shah Zafar"
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description: "The last Mughal emperor was a poet whose authority ended at Delhi's walls — until rebels in 1857 declared him Emperor of India against the East India Company, a claim that cost him his throne and sent him to die in exile in Rangoon."
tagline: "18th and last Mughal Emperor from 1837 to 1857"
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birthDate: "1775-10-24"
deathDate: "1862-11-07"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Bahadur Shah II was born on 24 October 1775, the second son of Akbar II, who had been imprisoned by the British. He wasn't his father's first choice; a queen had pressed for her son, Mirza Jahangir, but after Jahangir attacked the Company's resident at the Red Fort and was exiled, the path cleared. When Akbar II died in 1837, Bahadur Shah — known by his pen name Zafar, meaning "Victory" — inherited a title stripped of power, his rule confined to the Walled City. Twenty years later, rebel forces across the subcontinent named him Emperor of India in their uprising against the East India Company. The rebellion failed. In December 1857 the British exiled him to Yangon, Burma, ending the nearly 500-year Timurid line that Timur had begun. He died there on 7 November 1862, far from Delhi, the last of his dynasty.