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Bahadur Shah Zafar

1775 - 1862

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Bahadur Shah II (born Mirza Abu Zafar Siraj-ud-din Muhammad (24 October 1775 – 7 November 1862), usually referred to by his poetic title Bahadur Shah Zafar (Persian pronunciation: [ba.hɑː.ˈduɾ ʃɑːh za.ˈfaɾ]; Zafar lit. 'Victory'), was the twentieth and last Mughal emperor and a Hindustani poet. He was the second son and the successor to his father, Akbar II, who died in 1837. He was a titular Emperor, as the Mughal Empire existed in name only and his authority was limited only to the walled city of Old Delhi (Shahjahanbad). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bahadur Shah Zafar has received more than 3,724,324 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Bahadur Shah Zafar is the 1,802nd most popular politician (up from 2,168th in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from India (up from 77th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Indian Politician.

Bahadur Shah Zafar was the last Mughal emperor of India. He is most famous for being the emperor during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, which was a rebellion against the British East India Company.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Bahadur Shah Zafar ranks 1,802 out of 19,576. Before him are Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans, Hong Xiuquan, Ferdinand I of Naples, Isaac I Komnenos, Catherine Cornaro, and Meñli I Giray. After him are Lothair II, Holy Roman Emperor, Celâl Bayar, Al-Mutawakkil, Jiang Ziya, Peter IV of Aragon, and Senusret I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1775, Bahadur Shah Zafar ranks 8. Before him are André-Marie Ampère, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, J. M. W. Turner, Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, Lucien Bonaparte, and Eugène François Vidocq. After him are Carlota Joaquina of Spain, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, Adam Albert von Neipperg, Georg Friedrich Grotefend, Ching Shih, and François-Adrien Boieldieu. Among people deceased in 1862, Bahadur Shah Zafar ranks 6. Before him are Martin Van Buren, Henry David Thoreau, Samuel Colt, Jean-Baptiste Biot, and John Tyler. After him are Mikhail Ostrogradsky, James Clark Ross, Božena Němcová, Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, Fromental Halévy, and Karl Nesselrode.

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In India

Among people born in India, Bahadur Shah Zafar ranks 62 out of 1,861. Before him are Vyasa (-390), Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924), Zubin Mehta (1936), Radha (null), Lata Mangeshkar (1929), and Premchand (1880). After him are Guru Gobind Singh (1666), Aśvaghoṣa (80), Mumtaz Mahal (1593), Padmasambhava (717), Satyajit Ray (1921), and Julie Christie (1940).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Bahadur Shah Zafar ranks 20. Before him are Rani of Jhansi (1828), Alauddin Khalji (1266), Tipu Sultan (1750), Vallabhbhai Patel (1875), Harsha (590), and Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924). After him are Rajiv Gandhi (1944), Maharana Pratap (1540), Sher Shah Suri (1486), Samudragupta (335), Rajendra Prasad (1884), and Pervez Musharraf (1943).

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