Practicing Success
Who was the last Mughal Emperor? |
Shah Alam I Bahadur Shah Zafar Shah Alam II Akbar Shah II |
Bahadur Shah Zafar |
After 1707, following the death of Aurangzeb, the power of the dynasty diminished. In place of the vast apparatus of empire controlled from Delhi, Agra or Lahore the different capital cities regional powers acquired greater autonomy. Yet symbolically the prestige of the Mughal ruler did not lose its aura. In 1857 the last scion of this dynasty, Bahadur Shah Zafar II, was overthrown by the British |