The fall of the Mughal Empire came in 1857 after the British forces successfully defeated Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, who had ...

Sultana Begum, the great-granddaughter-in-law of the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, now lives in poverty in Kolkata ...

New Delhi: Everyone knows the story of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor of India, but few know how invaluable his ...

Sultana Begum was married to Mirza Mohammad Bedar Bakht, purported to be the great-grandson of India’s last Mughal ruler. At the time of marriage in 1965, Sultana Begum was 14 years old and her ...

Sultana Begum, the great-granddaughter-in-law of the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, lives in a Kolkata slum in stark ...

Married into the royal family that ruled India for three centuries, Sultana Begum lives in penury in a cramped two-room hut ...

At the age of 82,Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor, had to do the toughest balancing act of his life. Leading the life of a tattered royal on the dole of the British, the 15th Mughal ...

After the demise of Sultana's husband, Prince Mirza Bedar Bukht, in the 1980s, she has struggled to survive and support her six children, with a pension of merely Rs 6,000 per month.

Here Gandhi was building on a reading of colonial power that he first articulated in Hind Swaraj in 1909. One of the most ...

The crown of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor, and two throne chairs are part of the Royal Collection in London. These items were acquired after the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and symbolize ...