Bahadur shah zafar biography wikipedia

The location of the grave of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor at Yangon, Myanmar is in dispute.^[1] He was buried at the back of his enclosure, but by 1903 the location of his grave was forgotten.

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After some protests, the British were forced to construct a stone slab to mark the site of his grave. The location of his burial was once again found in 1991, when excavators found the skeleton of the last Mughal emperor there.

A mausoleum was constructed and inaugurated in 1994.

Death

When Zafar reached the age of 87 in 1862, he was "weak and feeble." In late October 1862, his health condition deteriorated suddenly.

The British Commissioner, H.N. Davies, wrote that his future was "very uncertain." He was "spoon-fed on broth," but even found that difficult by the beginning of November.^[2] On November 6, Davies recorded that Zafar "is evidently sinking from pure desuetude and paralysis in the region of his throa