Introduction
TUCKED AWAY DOWN A SIDE STREET on the northern fringes of Rangoon, downhill from the golden spires and finials of Shwe Dagon Pagoda, lies the grave of the last Mughal emperor of India, Bahadur Shah Zafar II (1772–1862). There in a wooden house off U Wisara Road, the deposed king lived the last four...
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| Zusammenfassung: | TUCKED AWAY DOWN A SIDE STREET on the northern fringes of Rangoon, downhill from the golden spires and finials of Shwe Dagon Pagoda, lies the grave of the last Mughal emperor of India, Bahadur Shah Zafar II (1772–1862). There in a wooden house off U Wisara Road, the deposed king lived the last four years of his life in exile, far from the majesty of Delhi’s Red Fort. The Mughal king was exiled to Rangoon along with his wife, Zinat Begum Mahal, and family in 1858 following the defeat of the Sepoy Rebellion against British rule in India. Kept |
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| DOI: | 10.2307/j.ctv17hm9xt.7 |