BAHADUR SHAH II

bähäˈdoor shä, 1775–1862, last Mughal emperor of India (1837–57). A political figurehead, he was completely controlled by the British East India Company, who found it convenient to maintain the fiction of Mughal rule. He was an old man of 82 at the time of the Indian Mutiny (1857–58) but, implicated by a rebel proclamation, he was convicted of complicity and exiled to Rangoon for life.

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books on: Bahadur Shah II  - 442 results

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The Making of Modern Iran: State and Society under Riza Shah 1921-1941
Book by Stephanie Cronin; RoutledgeCurzon, 2003
Subjects: Iran--Politics And Government--1925-1979, Iran--Social Life And Customs--20th Century, Newly Independent States, Reza Shah Pahlavi--Shah Of Iran--1878-1944
...century. 4. Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, 1878-1944. I. Cronin, Stephanie. II. Series. DS317 .M257 2003...3 Riza Shah and the paradoxes of military...PART II International relations...
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The Armenian Kingdom and the Mamluks: War and Diplomacy during the Reigns of He'Um II (1289-1307)
Book by Angus Donal Stewart; Brill, 2001
Subjects: Cilicia--History--Armenian Kingdom, 1080-1375, Hethum--Ii--King Of Armenia--D. 1307, Mamelukes
...fact that Qutlugh-Shah remained behind with...pillaging. But Hetum II at the head of his...of the Mamluk Army-II, BSOAS xv (1953): 4...al-Mu`azzam Turan-Shah (28 Muharram 648/2...of the Mamluk Army-II, BSOAS xv (1953): 4...heartlands, the Khwarazm-Shah, and the latter was...
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International Politics since World War II: A Short History
Book by Charles L. Robertson; M.E. Sharpe, 1997
Subjects: World Politics--1945-
...years after the end of World War II, Western governments undertook...the Allies forced the pro-Nazi shah of Iran to abdicate in favor...suspicion and ill will. World War II, we should note, marked the beginning...American involvement with the shah that ultimately led to creation...
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The Cambridge Shorter History of India
Book by J. Allan, T. Wolseley Haig, H. H. Dodwell; Cambridge University Press, 1934
Subjects: India--History
...310 Mahmud II 311...312 Bahadur 314...331 Shir Shah 333...
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Moslem Nationalism in India and Pakistan
Book by Hafeez Malik; Public Affairs Press, 1963
Subjects: Muslims--South Asia
...at their head. On the south was Bahadur Shah, King of Gujrat. In Bengal and...the Pathan confederacy led by Sher Shah was the more dangerous adversary...flirted with his enemies while Sher Shah consolidated his power in Bengal...
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journal articles on: Bahadur Shah II  - 13 results

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Martyrdom and the Sikh Tradition
Journal article by Louis E. Fenech; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 117, 1997
Subjects: Martyrdom--Social aspects, Sikhs--Social aspects
...Sri Guru Granth Sahib, II (Patiala: Punjabi Univ...Sikhism," in Guru Tegh Bahadur: Background and Supreme...G. S. Talib, Guru Tegh Bahadur: Martyr and Teacher (Patiala...by the Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah in response to the constant...
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Post-Mutiny Allegories of Empire in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Books
Journal article by Don Randall; Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 40, 1998
Subjects: Literature--History And Criticism, Philology
...Havelock), and its villains (Bahadur Shah, Nana Sahib). It becomes...Kiplings jungle tales. II. Identification with(in...Sepoys of 1857 looked to Bahadur Shah for leadership, so, during...symbolic kingship of Bahadur Shah, so Mowgli puts an end...
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Darwin's Shadow: Context and Reception in the Muslim World
Journal article by Muzaffar Iqbal; Islam & Science, Vol. 7, 2009
Subjects: Book publishing--International trade, Book publishing--Political activity, Book publishing--Political aspects, Cambridge University Press--Advertising, Cambridge University Press--Political activity, Christianity--Political aspects
...destruction of forms in the ultimate sense; (ii) the reduction of causality to the horizontal...the mid-nineteenth century, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was to call it "the sick man of...Almost all buildings from the times of Shah Jahan within the walls of the fort and most...
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Notes on Eastern Hanafite Heresiography
Journal article by Keith Lewinstein; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 114, 1994
Subjects: Hanafis--Literature, Heresy--Literature, Islamic literature--Analysis
...is called Mun im Khan. He was attached to the courts of Awrangzib (to whom the book is dedicated) and his eldest son, Bahadur Shah. See M. Zubaid Ahmad, The Contribution of India to Arabic Literature (Allahabad, n.d.), 97 (I owe this to Aron Zysow...
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Babri Mosque: a Historic Bone of Contention
Journal article by Arshad Islam; The Muslim World, Vol. 97, 2007
Subjects: Hinduism, Islam, Muslims, Religion, Religious history
...Congress, had the moral courage to send a memorandum to Lal Bahadur Shastri, then Home Minister in the UP Government, and went...Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Vir Bahadur Singh. On December 19 1985 the latter visited Ayodhya, and...
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magazine articles on: Bahadur Shah II  - 5 results

 
 
1.
Last Days of Empire
Magazine article by Jan Dalley; New Statesman, Vol. 135, October 30, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 (Book)--Book reviews
...Mughal: the fall of a dynasty (Delhi, 1857) William Dalrymple Bloomsbury, 578pp, pounds sterling25 The Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah II, known by his pen name of Zafar, liked to spend his mornings mulling over the elaborate rhyme scheme of the poems...
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The Mughal Dynasties: Francis Robinson Looks for the Distinctively Tolerant and Worldly Features of Mughal Rule in India and That of the Related Islamic Dynasties of Iran and Central Asia
Magazine article by Francis Robinson; History Today, Vol. 57, June 2007
Subjects: Central Asia--History, Indian history--Analysis, Islamic Empire, 622-1517--History, Mughal Empire, 1526-1857--History, Shahjahan, Emperor of India--History
...the last Qajar by a Colonel of the Cossack Brigade in 1925. The following lines written in exile by the last Mughal, Bahadur Shah II, express the pathos of fallen greatness: I am the light of no ones eye The...
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The Last Mughal and a Clash of Civilisations: East and West Face Each Other across a Divide That Some Call a Religious War. Suicide Jihadis Take What They See as Defensive Action and Innocent People Are Killed. but This Is 1857. William Dalrymple on Lessons from the Raj for the Neo-Cons
Magazine article by William Dalrymple; New Statesman, Vol. 135, October 16, 2006
Subjects: Delhi, India, Mutiny--Political aspects, Religious conflict, Revolutions--Political aspects
...br/ The state prisoner Davis referred to was Bahadur Shah II, known from his pen-name as Zafar (meaning, paradoxically...or Oudh), using the excuse that the nawab, Wajid Ali Shah, a far-from-belligerent dancer and epicure, was "debauched...
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Ignorant Armies Clash by Night
Magazine article by Peter Heinegg; Cross Currents, Vol. 57, Fall 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 (Book)--Book reviews
...extinction proved to be a true catastrophe. The last of the Mughals, vividly portrayed by Dalrymple, was the emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar II (1775-1862), a religiously tolerant man (his mother was a Hindu) of exquisite refinement and a notable poet, cruelly...
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Heads of State or Government
Magazine article; UN Chronicle, Vol. 21, August 1984
Subjects: Heads of state--Addresses, essays, lectures, International relations--Addresses, essays, lectures, Presidents--Addresses, essays, lectures, Prime ministers--Addresses, essays, lectures, United Nations. General Assembly--Addresses, essays, lectures, World politics--Addresses, essays, lectures
...taken steps, within the framework of mediation by Pope John Paul II, to end a century-old conflict with its neighbour, Chile. And...the referendum in the Western Sahara, as proposed by King Hassan II and agreed to at the 18th African summit meeting in Nairobi in...


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newspaper articles on: Bahadur Shah II  - 2 results

 
 
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The Last Emperor of the Far Pavilions; Critic's Choice
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 6, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews
...sterling25) WHEN the last Mughal emperor of Hindustan, Bahadur Shah II (known as Zafar), was crowned in Delhi in 1837, he inherited...society, recalling the days of his ancestors, amongst them Shah Jahan, who built the Taj Mahal. is a sense once again...
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Paperbacks
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 10, 2007
...real fear that Christian missionaries wanted to convert the entire subcontinent. At the centre of the storm was Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last emperor of the once-great Mughal dynasty. Victorian Britain regarded Zafar as a traitor, but in Dalrymples...


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encyclopedia articles on: Bahadur Shah II  - 2 results

 
 
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Bahadur Shah II
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BAHADUR SHAH II baha door sha, 1775 1862, last Mughal emperor of India (1837 57). A political figurehead, he was completely controlled by...
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Indian Mutiny
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...his titles and pension by the British, and the aged Bahadur Shah II , last of the Mughal emperors, was informed that the...revolted at Meerut; they captured Delhi and proclaimed Bahadur Shah II the emperor of all India. The mutiny spread rapidly...


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