Bahadur Shah II (Zafar)

Bahadur Shah II, also known as Bahadur Shah Zafar, was the last Mughal emperor of India, ruling from 1837 to 1857. His reign marked the end of the Mughal dynasty's political power amid British colonial expansion. A poet and culturally inclined ruler, Zafar was more a symbolic figure than a ruler with real authority. During the Indian Rebellion of 1857, he was declared the leader by rebels, but the uprising was crushed by the British. Afterward, he was captured, tried, and exiled to Burma (Myanmar), where he died in 1862. His legacy symbolizes the waning of Mughal rule and the onset of British dominance.