After the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the British exiled him from Delhi.Р”В«ahadur Shah Zafar was a noted Urdu poet, having written a number of Urdu ghazals. Zafar never had any interest in statecraft or had any 'imperial ambition'. The emperor permitted the company to collect taxes from Delhi and maintain a military force in it.

The emperor was respected by the company, who provided him with a pension. Outside the region controlled by the company, hundreds of kingdoms and principalities, fragmented their land. The East India Company became the dominant political and military power in mid-nineteenth-century India. The Marathas installed Shah Alam II in the throne in 1772, under the protection of the Maratha general Mahadaji Shinde and maintained suzerainty over Mughal affairs in Delhi. The Maratha Empire had brought an end to the Mughal Empire in the Deccan during the 18th century and the regions of India formerly under Mughal rule had either been absorbed by the Marathas or had declared independence and become smaller kingdoms. However, The East India Company exiled Jahangir after he attacked their resident, in the Red Fort, paving the way for Zafar to assume the throne.Р”В®mblem of the emperor in the first year of his reignР”В«ahadur Shah Zafar ruled over a Mughal Empire that had by the early 19th century been reduced to only the city of Delhi and the surrounding territory as far as Palam.

One of Akbar Shah's queens, Begum, pressured him to declare her son, Mirza Jahangir, as his successor. Zafar's father, Akbar II, had been imprisoned by the British and he was not his father's preferred choice as his successor. Following his involvement in the Indian Mutiny of 1857, the British exiled him to Rangoon in British-controlled Burma, after convicting him on several charges He was a titular Emperor, as the Mughal Empire existed in name only and his authority was limited only to the walled city of Old Delhi ( Shahjahanbad). He was the second son of and became the successor to his father, Akbar II, upon his death on 28 September 1837. He had written a large number of ghazals and his court was home to several Urdu writers of great repute including Mirza Ghalib, Dagh, Mumin, and Zauq.Bahadur Shah Zafar ( Persian: РЁРЃР©вЂЎРЁВ§РЁР‡РЁВ±РЁТ‘РЁВ§Р©вЂЎ РЁС‘Р©РѓРЁВ±РІР‚Р‹, born Mirza Abu Zafar Siraj-ud-din Muhammad 24 October 1775 РІР‚вЂњ 7 November 1862) or Bahadur Shah II was the twentieth and last Mughal Emperor of India. Though most famous for being the last Mughal emperor, Zafar was also a very talented Urdu poet and musician in his own right. However, Zafar did play a prominent role during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, fighting for IndiaРІР‚в„ўs independence from British Rule. He was not a very ambitious ruler and thus the British believed that he posed no real threat to them. By that time the East India Company was gaining political power in India and the emperor was no longer accorded any real power over the country which had by now fragmented into hundreds of kingdoms and principalities. Even as an emperor he did not rule over a large empire his empire barely extended beyond Delhi's Red Fort. However, circumstances ultimately led to his ascension to the throne after his fatherРІР‚в„ўs death. As the second son of Akbar Shah II and Lal Bai, he was not his fatherРІР‚в„ўs original choice to ascend the throne. Bahadur Shah Zafar, also known as Bahadur Shah II, was the last Mughal emperor of India who reigned from 1837 to 1857 for a period of 20 years.

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