Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last #Mughal emperor of India was not just a vestige of past, he was a very popular leader, poet, sufi and a great freedom fighter who rose with his people against the tyrannical and brutal rule of the British East India Company.
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While the mutiny was defeated in a matter of just over a year or so, King lost badly, sacrificing his sons who were butchered by a British officer, faced sham trial where there was no hope of justice and judge was doing all to punish the king and then faced the worst humiliation

Zafar was 20th and last Mughal emperor. He succeeded his father, Akbar II, upon his death on 28 Sept 1837. He was a titular Emperor, as the Empire existed in name when he became the emperor as the authority of the empire had shrunk only to the walled city of Old Delhi.

There is no denying the fact that Zafar had inherited an ‘empire’ that was empire only in name. This empire was all set to expire with the death of Zafar and it had been agreed upon between him n the company that after his death, Mughals will leave Red Fort and settle in Mahrauli

Saif Mahmood while writing in his Beloved Delhi says: Ironically, this was happening as Mughal Delhi, the great theatre of Urdu poetry, was losing its eminence. By the time the frail sixty-two-year-old Bahadur Shah Zafar ascended the throne in September 1837,